LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Sir William Hillary's Appeal
SIR WILLIAM HILLARY'S " An Appeal to the British Nation on the Humanity and Policy of Forming a National Institution for the Preservation of Lives and Property from Shipwreck," was published early in the year 1823, the preface...
Category: Articles
A Yacht (1)
AUGUST 2ND. - DONAGHADEE, CO. DOWN;. At 5.40 P.M. the police telephoned that a small yacht had overturned about half a mile out at sea, and that three persons were clinging to it. A light squally N. wind was blowing, with a choppy sea. The...
EVER READY
Out for an evening walk with his children on 13 March, training, experience and teamwork helped an off-duty lifeboat helm save a life
Brian Niland had had a busy day. After finishing work as a medical rep, he’d picked his...
Category: Articles
Naming Ceremonies of Eight Motor Life-Boats
EIGHT motor life-boats have been named during 1938, two on the coast of Devon, at Salcombe and Appledore, two on the Irish coast, at Arklow and Dun Laoghaire, and the other four at Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, Whitby, Yorkshire, Peel, Isle of...
Category: Inaugurations
Round Britain By Irb
THE rigid inflatable Psychedelic Surfer gained a certain amount of publicity in the Round Britain Power Boat race and was, I hear, looked at by some of our IRB crews at the various stopping points around the coast.
When I...
Category: Articles
Fantee, of Hamburg
October 20th, at 5 P.M.
The schooner Fantee, of Hamburg, bound from that port to Shields, was wrecked on the Tay Bank, 8 miles to leeward of St.
Andrew's. It was blowing a gale from the S.E. with, as...
Nereus
At about 11 o'clock on the following morning the Life-boat again put off to the assistance of the barque Nereus, of Liverpool, bound from Barrow-in-Furness to Queensland with a cargo of steel rails.
Her cargo had...
Himalaya
MORAY FIRTH, NAIENSHIRE. —Telegrams were received from Burghead and Findhorn, on the 13th August, to the effect that a barque was ashore between Findhorn and the Old Bar, beyond the reach of the rocket apparatus. The Caulfield and Ann...
A Fishing Lugger St Louise
During a W.S. W.
gale on the 8th September the coast- guard reported at about 3 A.M. that signals were being made by a vessel in distress. The No. 1 Life-boat E.A.O.B.
was promptly launched, and proceeded...
Isolda
Dur- ing a moderate to strong gale on the 14th March a three-masted schooner was observed at anchor on the south side of the Greengrounds, dragging her anchors. As she was in a position of danger, and had hoisted a two flag signal, the...