LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Success
Scarborough, Yorkshire.—About one o'clock on the afternoon of the 24th of November, 1955, the coastguard reported that the fishing boat Success, of Whitby, was about three miles to the north-east and making for Scar- borough, as Whitby...
Bezaleel
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. — At 4.50 in the morning, on the 7th of September, 1950, a fishing boat skipper reported that the motor fishing boat Bezaleel, of Banff, had wirelessed that she had sprung a leak, and needed help. A later message...
Seabird
Hilbre Island, Cheshire.—Shortly before 6 P.M. on the 23rd July information was received from Hilbre, through the Mersey Dock Board, that a yacht was in distress on Salisbury Bank. A strong, squally breeze was blowing from the N.N.W., with...
Yacht Cachalot
Dover, Kent.—At 2 P.M. on the llth September the cutter yacht Cachalot, of Ipswich, was seen to be driving towards the breakwater. A northerly gale was blowing, with a very rough sea, and the Cachalot was in danger of going on the breakwater...
Tarka
CABIN CRUISER TOWED TO HARBOUR Troon, Ayrshire. At 8.30 on the evening of the 30th June, 1962, the Ardrossan police passed on to the honorary secretary a report received from the Isle of Man steamer King Orry, when she had arrived at...
Julia
ABERYSTWYTH.-—The Life-boat Lady Haberfield put off at about 8 A.M. on the 7th October to the aid of the Danish brig Julia, which was showing a signal of distress in the bay during a strong E.N.E.
wind. On reaching her it...
Mrs. L. R. Lowe, Gosfield
MRS. LOUISA RUTH LOWE, of Gosfield Hall, Essex, who died on 24th February in her 95th year had for eighteen years been the president of the Halstead and Gosfield branch, and had taken a very personal and generous interest in its work. She...
Category: Obituaries
Fig 5
Fig 5: An Arun lifeboat inverted during her self-righting trials. Note how high she rides on her wheelhouse. A limited area in the centre of the boat, the 'envelope', will always be clear of the static water level.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Steamer (1)
NOVEMBER 4TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
The life-boat went out to help in an attempt to salve a steamer which had been stranded since 1939. On the 20th of October she had gone out for the same purpose. The operaions were again...
Silver Medal for Padstow
The Institution has awarded its silver medal to W. Orchard, its second motor mechanic at Padstow, for taking command of the life-boat when she travelled 28 miles in a rough sea and blinding squalls of rain, and rescued seven lives from a...
Category: Articles