LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mina
LIFE-BOAT AND TUG IN HARD TOW THE Falmouth, Cornwall, life-boat on 8th August, 1972, following the sighting of a redflare at about 3.40 a.m., saved a schooner and 10 people.
The wind was south westerly, force 6-7, with a...
Building a Rother Class Lifeboat: Part V—Planking
AFTER MANY MONTHS of patient craftsmanship, fitting, shaping and building up the many members which make up a boat's frame, RNLB Shoreline, building at William Osbornes of Littlehampton, is now being planked. The hull is taking form.<...
Category: Articles
Sark
Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire.—At 11.47 in the morning, on the 18th of July, 1950, the coastguard reported that a sailing dinghy had capsized one and a quarter miles off Nevin Point.
Thirteen minutes later the life-boat...
Naming Ceremonies
Padstow April 15, 1985 The strong gales that had lashed the Cornish coasts during the weekend subsided in time for Monday April 15, which dawned overcast but calm and dry. By mid-day the crowds were beginning to line the tiny harbour's...
Category: Inaugurations
H.L Routh, of New York
Early on the morning of the 11th April, during a heavy gale of wind from W.N.W., the Robert William life-boat proceeded to the rescue of the crews of two vessels in distress off this place. On reaching the nearest vessel—the barque H. L....
A Seaplane
At 9 A.M. on the 15th December the military authorities reported that signals of dis- tress had been observed in St. Andrews Bay. In response the Motor Life-boat Maria was launched. She proceeded to St. Andrews Bay, where she found an...
A Generous Gesture
LAST November Matthew Clarkson, second coxswain of the Lytham life- boat, disappeared while shrimping in the Ribble estuary. The crew of the Lytham life-boat received £2 10s. each A* in rewards from the Institution for searching for...
Category: Services
Sisters
DROGHKDA.—On the 10th January the No. 2 Life-boat, John Suiter Charley, of this station, was launched to the assistance of the barque Sisters, of Sunderland, which vessel being driven in on the lee-shore of Bettystown strand came in contact...
Brothers
During a moderate northerly gale with a choppy sea on the 30th July the ketch Brothers, of Cardigan, commenced to drag her anchors. As the vessel was on a lee shore signals of distress were made, and in response the crew of the Life-boat...
Negus
Dunbar, East Lothian. At 8.15 on the morning of the 24th August, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that the fishing boat Negus with two men aboard was in difficulties near the rocks off Dunbar harbour and needed help. At...