LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Life-Boat Rescue from the Land
THE Motor Life-boat at Wexford in Ireland has had the curious experience of rescuing a man from the land.
For many years the Wexford Life- boat Station was situated at the end of Rosslare Point, a spit several miles long...
Category: Services
Surprise
On the 10th June the fishing lugger Surprise, of Lowestoft, which had put to sea the previous day, had not returned, and, as there was a moderate S.W. gale blowing with a rough sea, it was considered advisable to make a search for...
The Fishery Cruiser Norna
LONG STAND-BY At 7.20 a.m. on 25th September, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the fishery cruiser Norna was being blown ashore at Loch Shell but did not require immediate help. There was a rough sea with a strong...
Annual Report. 1903
AT the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the Royal United Service Institution, "Whitehall, on Thursday, the 5th day of March, 1903, His Grace the DUKE OF SUTHERLAND, K.G., in the Chair, the...
Category: Annual Reports
The S.S. River Humber
Pwllheli, Caernarvonshire, and Barmouth, Merionethshire.—The Abersoch coastguards reported to the Pwllheli lifeboat station at 12.10 in the morning of the 4th October, 1938, that a vessel was dragging her anchors in St. Tudwalls Roads. A...
Lara of Bosham, and Dinghies
Four people landed A SUDDEN DETERIORATION in the weather on the afternoon of Saturday September 19, 1981, caught out a fleet of Fireball sailing dinghies at a meeting off Felpharn, and at 1730 HM Coastguard informed the honorary secretary of...
Swimming
THE Committee of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION have frequently brought under their notice lamentable instances of persons being drowned, from the capsizing or swamping of boats, who might probably have been saved had they been...
Category: Articles
Shoreline from Page 128
had already arrived, so joined their colleagues for a 'hard sell'. The excitement grew. We put up a notice telling the public of our aim. We wrote boldly the number now needed, periodically crossing it out and substituting the new...
Category: Articles
Sketch of the Progress Made In the Construction of Coast Life-Boats. 1785-1900. No. 6
AMONG the numerous models sent in for competition for the Northumberland Prize in 1850 there were no less than twenty-one varieties of Life-rafts, some supported by one cylinder, but more by two; some by closed canoes; some by a boat divided...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Services
West Division Broken rudder THE HONORARY SECRETARY of Moelfre lifeboat station was informed by Holyhead Coastguard at 0845 on Sunday September 21, 1980, that the yacht July Morn had reported that she was in difficulties, her rudder broken,...
Category: Services