LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Florence
At about 8.55 A.M. on 3rd January a message was received from the Coastguard that a ketch, with a distress signal flying, was dragging her anchors near No. 1 Black Buoy, and was in danger of stranding on the Causeway off Puffin Island. The...
Fibre-Glass Dory
The standard hull of the Dell Quay dory, referred to on page 464, has been used in the R.N.L.I.'s new experimental boat, but it has been strengthened to enable it to take the steering console.
The hull is of composite...
Category: Articles
Feature Tamar Tales
As work on the Tamar class lifeboat design gathers pace, Neil Chaplin, RNLI principal naval architect, gives the Lifeboat a look behind the scenes. We also follow the introduction of a radical new electronics system that could herald a step...
Category: Articles
Mrs Irene Lamont,
Mrs Irene Lamont, former president of the Lerwick ladies lifeboat guild. She was chairman of the reformed Grimsby ladies guild from 1964 until 1983 and was awarded a Silver badge in 1982..
Category: Obituaries
Buy a Life-Boat Calendar!
FOR the last three years the Institution has distributed a Life-boat Calendar, with a view to keeping the work of the j Life-boat Service continually before the public. By doing this the Committee of Management have felt that they might also...
Category: Advertisement
Aberdeen supports Cowes
Aberdeen Asset Management is supporting the Cowes Lifeboat Station appeal, which is raising funds to establish a new site four minutes closer to Solent – the stretch of water between the south coast of England and the Isle of Wight. Aberdeen...
Category: Articles
Success
JAN. 2ND. - REDCAR, AND TEESMOUTH, YORKSHIRE. At about 9.45 A.M. the coastguard at Marske telephoned that a motor fishing vessel was in distress four miles north-east of Huntcliffe. She was the Success, of Whitby, with a crew of four. Her...
A Hundred Years Ago
An extract from The Life-boat, or Journal of the National Shipwreck Institution, July, 1854.
Ix the autumn of 1853, a new life-boat was stationed at Dover by the Dover Humane Society to replace their old one. This boat...
Category: Articles
Renner
About noon on the 23rd February, it was reported that a vessel was on the North Buxey Sand with a signal of distress flying.
The Life-boat Albert Edward was launched and proceeded to the vessel, which proved to be the...
Gundine (1)
LIFE-BOATS SMOTHERED IN OIL Stromnest, and Longbope, Orkneys.— At 7.34 in the morning of the 24th of August, 1947, the Kirkwall coastguard telephoned to the Stromness life-boat station that the Norwegian tanker Gundine, of Arendal, was...