LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Pontoon Jimmie Mac
Eighteen lifeboats at sea as storm sweeps country 'Services varied from false alarms - both with good intent and malicious - to fishing vessels and commercial passenger vessels...' The severe storms which swept much of the country on...
From the Director
Lt Cdr Brian Miles, Director of the RNLI, looks back on 1989 - and forward to a new decade J.t is difficult to believe that a whole year has passed since my last message in the journal. The old adage of time passing ever more quickly as the...
Category: Articles
The Life-Saving Stations of the World
IT is hoped to publish in the next issue of The Li/eboat an article on a " List of Life-saving Stations of the World, with their Equipment and Geographical Positions," issued by the International Hydrographic Bureau at Monaco, in...
Category: Articles
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 Danish Schooner Fortuna
On the 20th November, just before dark, in reply to signals of distress, the Life-boat Manchester Unity was launched to the assistance of the Danish schooner Foriuna, of Nykjobing, bound from that port to Stockton, and car- rying a crew of 5...
The Helwick Lightvessel
Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 6.40 on the evening of the 21st of August, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Trinity House depot had asked for the life-boat to be launched to take a sick man off the Helwick light- vessel...
The Coastal Steamer Spey
JANUARY 25TH. - AMBLE, NORTHUMBERLAND. The motor life-boat Frederick and Emma was launched at 8.40 A.M. to the help of the coastal steamer Spey, of Newcastle, which had run ashore on the rocks at the north side of Coquet...
The Fraserburgh Inquiry
A FORMAL investigation under the Merchant Shipping Act of 1894 was held at the Sheriff Court House, Aberdeen, from 5th to 12th October, 1970, into the circumstances attending the capsizing of the Fraserburgh life-boat The Duchess of Kent...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
DUNMORE, EAST, Co. WATERFORD.—It having been reported that a large steamer in distress was anchored off Slade, co. Wexford, during a whole gale from the S.8.W. and a very heavy sea, the Life-boat Henry Dodd was promptly launched at 12,15 P.M...
Category: Services
The Life-Boat House
The boats of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION and all belonging to them are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains and under the general superintendence of local honorary committees...
Category: Articles