LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Meet the Fleet
Have you lost track of what boats are in the RNLI fleet? Do you get your B class confused with your D class? You are not alone With the RNLI at the forefront of technical innovation in boat design, lifeboats are constantly evolving. In 2002...
Category: Articles
December (1)
INVERGORDON, ROSS-SHIRE. On the 21st of August, 1946, the Invergordon and Balblair motor ferry boat was on a run to Invergordon when, at 4.20, she saw a naval whaler capsize. A north-east wind was blowing against the ebb tide and raising a...
Category: Services
Walkure
The No. 2 Life-boat at Palling, Hearts of Oak, and the Louisa Heartwell, from Croiner, were launched to the assistance of the ship Walkure, of Hamburg, which stranded on the Haisboro Sands on the 4th December. The vessel, which was a large...
Mr. Punch In 1883. Ready! A Business-Like Ballad
My Lads, lend ear! There's a yarn to spin on an old but honest text.
When round our cliffs and our headlands hoar our winter seas are vext, When the waves are lashed by the wind- flouts wild that come with the condor...
Category: Poetry
Two New District Organising Secretaries
Miss T. H. Ashe has been appointed district organizing secretary for Wales, and Wing-Commander E. J. Brooks, D.F.C., district organizing secretary for the Midlands.
Miss Ashe succeeds Lieut.-Colonel V. M. Lewis, M.C., who...
Category: Committee
BRITANNIA RESCUE
We've been voted Road Rescue Best Buy for the 4th consecutive time by the UK's leading consumer testing magazine. We also recover trailers of any length. That's why the RNLI made us its official membership motoring rescue scheme...
Category: Advertisement
Magdalina
LOSSIKMOUTH, SCOTLAND.—The schooner Magdalina, of Inverness, bound from Sunderland to Dingwall with coal, was struck by a sudden squall off Burgh Head on the 25th October. Her sails were carried away, and she came into Lossiemouth bay and...
The S.S. Loch Ness
MONTKOSE.—Information was received at about 8.15 A.M. on the 5th January that a large steamer was ashore abreast of Kinnaber, about three miles north of Montrose. A strong gale from S. by E.
was blowing, with rain, end...
Azela, of Blyth
On the following day a brig was seen burning tar-barrels very near the breakers on Yarmouth Beach, during a fresh wind from E. by S. The Yarmouth No. 2 Life- boat, the Duff, was at once taken to the spot, and, after much difficulty, was...
The S.S. Asia
During a fresh westerly breeze with rough sea, in the early morning of the 20th April, the s.s. Asia, of Bremen, bound from Savannah to Bremen, stranded on the Goodwin Sands.
In response to the signals from the...