LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Hint to Parents
It will never be said of my children (the girls' any more than the boys), in case of a boat capsizing, " none of the party could swim ;" — the dreary and shameful announcement which we see in the newspaper reports of the...
Category: Articles
Award for Senior Aircraftman
ABOUT 8.45 on the morning of the 29th of September, 1958, a Royal Air Force 60-feet pinnace left Falmouth harbour for a trial run in rough seas.
She had a crew of five and Corporal N. L. Dyer was in...
Category: Awards
Inshore Rescue Boats on Service
FROM ist July to 3Oth September, 1964, inshore rescue boats were launched on service 141 times. On 24 occasions described in chronological order below they were able to rescue people in difficulties.
Southwold, Suffolk. At...
Category: Services
News and Views
End of an era...
Whenever a station changes lifeboats there is always a degree of sadness in handing back a trusted boat, tempered by the excitement of receiving a brand new vessel in its place. The Dover station's...
Category: Articles
A Small Sloop
On the 7th March a small sloop ran on shore near Rhyl, on the north coast of Wales; the tubular life-boat immediately proceeded to her, but her crew had succeeded in landing previous to her arrival. Some fishermen afterwards got on board;...
Edwin Basset, of Sunderland
On the 4th Feb.
the Cahore Life-boat Sir George Bowles, in answer to signals of distress shown from the barque Edwin Basset, of Sunderland, proceeded through a heavy sea and strong breeze to that vessel, from which, she...
A Pleasure Boat
HUNSTANTON, NORFOLK. At 4 P.M. ON the 8th August, a pleasure-boat was observed off this port, with masts gone and distress signals flying. The Life-boat was got to sea as soon as possible, and the women and 4 men on board the boat were...
City of Bristol
WITHERNSEA.—The fishing smack City of Bristol, of Hull, stranded about a mile S. of the Life-boat house during a S.E. by S. wind, a heavy snowstorm, and a chopping eea, on the 5th of January. The Admiral Sous Life-boat was launched at 9.15 A...
Velocity
GILES' QUAY, DUNDALK.—The schooner Velocity, of and from Carnarvon, bound for Dundalk, laden with slates, while endeavouring to enter her port of destination, a whole gale of wind blowing from the S., accompanied by a heavy sea and thick...
A Schooner (1)
A message was received from the Coast- guard at 6 P.M. on 18th May that a schooner anchored in St. Bride's Bay about two miles off shore, was flying a distress signal. The crew of the Life-boat General Farrell were assembled but a...