LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
Carrickfergus, co. ANTRIM. — The ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a new Life-boat station at Carrickfergus, on Belfast Lough, it being considered most important, in view of the great shipping...
Category: Articles
Too hot yacht
12 January: Lifeboats from Dun Laoghaire were called out shortly after midday to a yacht with a suspected fire onboard, probably due to an overheating engine. The lifeboat took the six crew members off the 11m...
Category: Articles
Naming Ceremonies In 1939
Barmouth, Merionethshire.
The Institution stationed at Barmouth in 1939 a 32-feet surf motor life-boat, with Hotchkiss internal cone propellers. She is like the Poole motor life-boat described in the issue of The Life-boat...
Category: Inaugurations
Two Dinghies (1)
Seven lifeboat stations involved in 21 hour search for missing anglersA complex service on 14 April 1991 involved all seven lifeboat stations from Dover to Newhaven, lasted 21 hours and involved searching of an area of 3,400 square miles for...
None (2)
Quick action saves life of fellow lifeboatman lost overboard It is particularly difficult for a lifeboat crew to go to the rescue of somebody that they know. It makes it even harder when the casualty is a fellow lifeboatman. The crew of...
SPECIAL DELIVERY
‘HER MAJESTY ENJOYED A VERY HAPPY DAY’
Our article on Her Majesty The Queen’s relationship with the RNLI stirred a few memories – here’s just one of them …
In 1992, whilst serving with the Thames Valley Police, I had...
Category: Articles
Atlantic
At 10 P.M. on the 27th October, in reply to signals of distress, the Life-boat Dr. Batton was launched from this station, and proceeded through a heavy sea and fresh breeze at S.E. to the assistance of the barque Atlantic, of Grimstad, which...
Swift
CRESSWELL, NORTHUMBERLAND. — The schooner Swift, of and from Laurvig for Newcastle, timber-laden, went ashore on the rocks during squally weather, at about 11 o'clock on the night of the 21st of December.
Some fishermen...
Sunshine
PORTRUSH.—The brigantine Sunshine, of and from St. John, N.B., laden with timber, arrived off Coleraine Bar on the 4th July and anchored, waiting for a sufficient depth of water to enable her to cross the bar. On the 10th a gale from the N.E...
Snowdrop
SCARBOROUGH.—The coxswain of the Life-boat Queensbury having been informed that some fishing cobles were in danger, the Life-boat was launched at 4.45 A.M. on the 25th April, while a moderate gale was blowing from N.E., accompanied by a...