LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Longshore Rowing Boat
NOVEMBER 17TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON. At 12.20 in the afternoon the coastguard reported that a longshore rowing boat was having difficulty in making the harbour. A fresh southerly gale was blowing, with a rough sea. The motor...
The Shoreham Fishing Boat Number One
JANUARY 16TH. - EASTBOURNE, SUSSEX.
At 8.15 in the morning the coastguard telephoned that a motor boat was in distress about four miles south of the life-boat station.
The motor life-boat Jane Holland...
High seas, low fuel
3 April: A father and son were bringing their yacht from Troon to Whitehaven when they ran out of fuel in a force 9, 12 miles from their destination. Workington’s Tyne class lifeboat launched at 4.45pm and headed...
Category: Articles
Limecold
On the 9th January the steam trawler Limeicold of Grimsby, when outward bound, ran ashore on the north side of the " Black Middens." The motor Life-boat Henry Vernon proceeded to her assistance and brought up alongside the vessel....
William and Mary, of Yarmouth
On the night of the 12th December, during a gale of wind from S.S.W., the lugger William and Mary, of Yarmouth, was driven upon the Barnard Sand, between Lowestoft and Kessingland.
At daylight, as soon as the perilous...
A Fishing Coble
Filey, Yorkshire, On the morning of the 19th September, 1961, the weather deteriorated rapidly and as there was a local fishing coble at sea it was decided to launch the life-boat The Isa andPenryn Milstedio escort her...
Dagenite Batteries
Lifeboats depend on Dagenite Batteries So can you.
'Dagenite batteries are used extensively by "the RNLI; and they don't take any chances. Isn't this the kind of dependability you want for your car ?...
Category: Advertisement
The New Chairman
COMMODORE THE RT. Hox. THE EARL HOWE, P.C., C.B.E., V.R.D., R.N.V.R., has been elected Chairman of the Committee of Management of the Royal National Life-boat Institution to succeed Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., K.B.E., who recently announced his...
Category: Committee
The Motor Drifter Yankee Girl
Ballycotton, Co. Cork.—At 8 P.M. on the 2nd January, 1939, the life-boat coxswain saw a flare about three miles south of Ballycotton Light. A moderate W.N.W. breeze was blowing with a heavy swell. The s.s. Innisfallen was in sight and as...
H.M. Minesweeper Canton
— H. M. Mine- Sweeper Canton ran aground on the Newcome Sands in a strong E.N.E.
breeze and rough sea, on the 27th May.
j Signals of distress were made as the sea was breaking over her...