LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lifeboat Services
A MAYDAY RELAY message from the Danish motor vessel Charlottenburg was heard by St Peter Port Signal Station at 1323 on Sunday December 13, 1981.
Charlottenburg was going to the assistance of Bonita, an Ecuadorian motor...
Category: Services
Scene from Above
The RNLI's lifeboats are part of the UK's overall Search and Rescue Facility and often work closely with their airborne counterparts.
Jim Ferguson, press officer of the Aberdeen branch of the RNLI, looks at HM...
Category: Articles
New Equipment
• Ship wiring cables and flexible curds manufactured by British Insulated ("allcnder's Cables Ltd are being used almost exclusively in the latest vessels being built for the RNLI. Such cables have to conform to rigorous standards...
Category: Articles
Samsoon
Difficult tow for Tyne in onshore Gale gusting to over 50 knotsThe Director of the the RNLI has written to Moelfre lifeboat station expressing his thanks 'for a fine service in adverse conditions' by the coxswain and crew of the...
Fishing Vessels
On the 25th November a heavy gale of wind from E.S.E. sprang up in the morning, causing a very heavy sea. At about 10 o'clock eight Scotch fishingvessels, on their way from Yarmouth fishing-grounds to Scotland, were seen running for...
Clara
The Covent Garden Life-boat was also launched at 2.15 A.M. on the 17th December, in reply to signals of distress, during a strong N.N.E. wind and a very heavy sea. She found the brig Clara, of Dublin, bound from Liverpool to the Tyne with a...
Patrick
RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN.—At 4 P.M. on the 8th February, a signal of distress was hoisted by the cutter Patrick, of Peel, coal laden from Whitehaven for Killough, which was riding heavily with three anchors down, and dragging them about a mile...
Lifeboat Transporting Carriage. (With Tipping's Wheelplates.)
The Life-boat transporting-carriage is a very important auxiliary to the boat.
Nearly every Life-boat, except a few of the larger sizes, is provided with a carriage, on which she is kept in the boat-house ready for...
Category: Articles
A Boy's Legacy
LAST December the Institution received from the Honorary Secretary of its Branch at Warminster, Wiltshire, a cheque for £16 as a legacy from the late Hugo Harbord Terchman. She wrote : " He was a young man just going to Oxford, who...
Category: Donations
A Dinghy
Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—16th August, 1939. A dinghy, with two men on board, had been reported as being carried out to sea by the strong tide.
The motor life-boat put out in charge of Captain Sir Charles Campbell, Bt., in...