LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mary Tatham
From the coast near this i port, on the 2ud January, by the first light 1 of breaking day, the masts of a vessel were | observed looming faintly through the haze of a S.W. storm. It was presently ascer- tained that the vessel herself...
Below: Martin, Ably Assisted By Fred, Prepares to Dive for the Yacht.
Below: Martin, ably assisted by Fred, prepares to dive for the yacht.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Team of 24 Students from the City and Guild's College Union of Imperial College London
A team of 24 students from the City and Guild's College Union of Imperial College, London, set out on July 10 to try to set a record for pedalling non stop 3,675 miles round the coast of Britain; they arrived back in London within a few... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The House at Bamburg—Where Grace Darling Died
The House at Bamburg—Where Grace Darling Died. - View image in PDF
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The Cutter-rigged Yacht Velma
YACHT TOWED CLEAR IN GALE Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 6.55 on the evening of the llth August, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht had gone aground some thirty or forty yards off St. Osyth beach. Of her crew of...
The Life-Boats of the United Kingdom
LXXI. APPLEDORE No. 1.— Temporary Boat, 31 feet by 7J feet, 10 oars.
LXXII. APPLEDORE No. 2.— Jane Hannah MacDanald, 34 feet by 7J feet, 10 oars.
JLXXIJI. BRAUNTON.— Robert and Catherine, 34 feet by 8...
Category: Articles
(Left) Watson:
(left) Watson: length overall 46ft 9in; beam 12ft 9in; draught 4ft 4in; displacement 23 tons; maximum speed, over 8 knots; range at full speed, 200 nautical miles. The 46ft 9in Watson, introduced in 1947, launches down a slipway or lies... - View image in PDF
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Lifeboat Services
TANKER FIRE VISIBLE FROM FIVE MILES AWAY Sixteen seamen taken off blazing oil tanker The collision which involved a tanker off the Humber estuary on 17 September 1989, and the subsequent fire, made front-page news throughout the country, and...
Category: Services
A Pilot Cutter
Shortly after 9 P.M. on the 25th October a wireless telegraph message was received from the Sunk Light-vessel reporting that a vessel was firing signals of distress.
The steam Life-boat City of Glasgow was immediately...
Lifeboat Services
The boat was very quickly and efficiently recovered by a horde of enthusiastic helpers, in pouring rain and gale force winds, under the expert coordination of the head launcher, Ronald White.
For...
Category: Services