LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Slasher, of Liverpool, Ship Bolton Abbey & Schooner Vanguard
On the 10th Jan. the steam-tug Slasher, of Liver- pool, while on her way to that port with the ship Bolton Abbey in tow, fell in, about daybreak, with the schooner Van- guard, of Carnarvon, which had been in collision with a foreign barque,...
Serento
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 2.18 on the afternoon of the 5th of August, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a yacht had capsized off Leewick Sands. Two men were clinging to her. At 2.20 the life-boat Edward Z.
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Simon Peter
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Andola
PORTHOUSTOCK, CORNWALL.—The Lifeboat Charlotte was launched at 8.15 P.M.
on the 30th January in a heavy sea, the wind blowing a strong gale from N.E.
and the weather bitterly cold, a large vessel having...
Happy Harry, of Arklow
APRIL 2ND. - BARROW, LANCASHIRE.
At five o’clock in the morning the naval base telephoned the life-boat station that a small vessel was ashore. A strong southsouth- east wind was blowing, with a nasty swell and heavy rain....
Mary Young, of West Hartlepool
.—During a heavy gale from the N.E. on the same day the brig Mary Young, of West Hartle- pool, grounded on the North Gare Sand- bank at the entrance of the Tees, a mile and a half south of Seaton Carew. The Charlotte life-boat at the latter...
Amy II (1)
Ramsgate, Kent. •— At 6.40 on the morning of the 12th of October, 1950, the East Pier Watchman telephoned that the Dutch yacht Amy II, which had left Ramsgate an hour earlier, had burned flares and was apparently aground in Pegwell Bay. At 6...
Form and function
They must be practical, versatile and tough enough to take a pounding, yet still live in harmony with their communities. Architect Mark Roberts explains just some of the challenges of designing lifeboat stations
‘Lifeboat...
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Presidential visit
HRH The Duke of Kent, President of the RNLI, visited Sheringham Lifeboat Station on 25 March.
The Duke met the crew, saw the launch and recovery of the Atlantic 85 lifeboat The Oddfellows, signed the visitors’ book and...
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Phaedra
PwIIheli, Caernarvonshire.—On the afternoon of the 25th of August, 1948, a south-west gale was blowing, with a rough sea, and at 4.10 the Abersoch coastguard asked the life-boat to search for a sailing boat which had been seen off...