LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Solstad (1)
Broughty Ferry, Angus, and Aberdeen.
—10th October, 1939. The Swedish vessel Solstad, of Karlstad, had been reported in distress with her steering gear disabled, about fifteen miles S.E. of Montrose, and the Montrose motor...
Solstad (1)
OCT. 10TH. - BROUGHTY FERRY, ANGUS, AND ABERDEEN. The Swedish vessel Solstad, of Karlstad, had been reported in distress with her steering gear dis-abled, about fifteen miles S.E. of Montrose, and the Montrose motor life-boat was unable to...
Royal National Life-Boat Institution. Its Work
ITS WORK.
HPHE Institution is constantly occupied in building, equipping and maintaining Life-boats, transporting carriages, boathouses and slipways, wherever required on the Coasts of the United Kingdom: in paying...
Category: Advertisement
Book Reviews
• A. F. Mumble's The Rowing Life- Boats of Whitby (Home and Son, Whitby, £1.63—including postage), has been produced with much scholarship and care. Mr Humble, who is acting librarian of the Whitby Literary and Philosophical Society...
Category: Articles
Close inspection
Keeping a fleet of 330 lifeboats and their associated kit in tip-top condition is no mean feat
With the safety of the lifeboat and the shore crews always paramount, the RNLI has rightly had a...
Category: Articles
Menacing Goodwins By Arthur Gaunt
DESPITE their name, there's nothing good about the Goodwin Sands, which comprises three hook-shaped banks off England's south east coast. For centuries these sandbars have been known to seamen as 'The Ship Swallowers', and it...
Category: Articles
A Vessel (1)
Dunmore East, Co. Waterford.—14th January. 1938. A vessel appeared to be in distress, and in the absence of the coxswain and the second coxswain, the assistant motor mechanic took charge.
—Rewards, vellum and monetary...
Silver and Bronze Medallists
Coxswain Edwin Madron, of Penlee, and John Drew, the motor mechanic. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Shoreline Section
SHORELINE membership continues to increase steadily and insignia sales continue their upward trend. It is encouraging to find several boats in some of the larger harbours flying Shoreline flags, and to pass the occasional car on the road...
Category: Articles
A Sailing Dinghy (1)
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. At 12.05 p.m. on 25th July, 1965, a sailing dinghy, with two people on board, capsized in Peterhead Bay. At 12.20 the life-boat Julia Park Barry of Glasgow was launched in a gentle north-westerly breeze and smooth...