LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Wear
WHITBY.—At about 5.30 P.M., on the 3rd of May, the sloop Wear, of Sunderland, bound from Hartlepool for Walcott with coal, while attempting to enter the harbonr in a very heavy sea, missed the entrance, became unmanageable, drifted into the...
Meetings of Committee
Thursday, 7th Dec., 1854. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., in the Chair.
Confirmed the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Wreck and Reward Sub-Committees.
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Category: Committee
1991 Fa B 3 Prototype (Right)
It may be hard to believe, but the same self-righting principle applies to these two lifeboats, separated by more than 125 years of development. The sails and oars may have given way to turbocharged diesels, but the raised fore-and-aft boxes... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
REMEMBERING PRINCESS VICTORIA
31 January 1953. A storm is building that will cause one of the UK’s worst natural disasters. Despite the gale warnings, at 7.45am the British Railways ferry Princess Victoria begins her regular passage across the Irish Sea. She will never...
Category: Articles
Eleven Men Rescued from a Steam Trawler
AT 9.30 on the night of the 19th of October. 1955, the son of Coxswain George Flett of the Aberdeen no. 1 life-boat heard a vessel in the bay blowing her siren continuously. He telephoned this information to the honorary secretary of the...
Category: Services
The Use of Oil at Sea. By Lieut. John P. Holditch, R.N.R.
IN April, 1883, the ship I commanded was homeward bound from Australia to Cork, for orders; we were just off New Zealand, about the worst place "for wind till you come to Cape Horn on the passage.
A heavy N.W. gale...
Category: Articles
A Sailboard
Windsurfer saved in raging gale Windsurfer Peter Waters was enjoying a great day in the surf at Porthcawl on 26 January 2002 when a sudden wind knocked him through his sail and into the water. 'I was about half a mile out to sea,' he...
Tijl Uilenspiegel (5)
Six lifeboats in search for missing Belgian trawler The new Tyne class lifeboat at Douglas, Isle of Man, had a testing time during her first service, in a search for a missing Belgian trawler which lasted for 11 hours in Force 7 winds and...
Your Letters
A special thank you They say that just before you die, your whole life passes before you. At the age of eight you haven't had much of a life so when you come close to 'it', you really can recall everything.
My...
Category: Correspondence
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
To JOHN MATTHEWS, Coxswain of the Moelfre Life-boat, a silver watch for devotion to duty when the Life-boat was wrecked owing to breaking from her moorings during a very heavy N.E. gale, on the llth February, 1929.
To OWEN...
Category: Awards