LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
At the Sharp End
A selection of lifeboat services from around the country Wells East Division Three saved .from stranded vessel Aservice to a fishing vessel in gale force winds, darkness, shallow water and heavy breaking seas has earned Wells lifeboat...
Category: Services
Motor Life-Boats of the Institution. No. 6.—The 41-Feet Beach (Aldeburgh) Type
WHEN the Institution designed two new types of motor life-boat (as described in previous issues of The Life- boat) sufficiently light to be launched off a carriage or the open beach it became possible to use motor power at a large number of...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat
The following figures show the general form, the nature of the fittings, and air-chambers of one of these boats, 33 feet in length and 8 feet in breadth. In figs. 1 and 2, the elevation and deck plans, the general exterior form of the boat...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat
The following figures show the general form, the nature of the fittings and air-chambers of one of these boats, 33 feet in length and 8 feet in breadth. In figs. 1 and 2, the elevation and deck plans, the general exterior form of the boat is...
Category: Articles
The Converted Ship's Boat St. David
Girvan, Ayrshire.—At 10.45 on the night of the 14th of July, 1952, infor- mation was received from the JBallan- trae coastguard that signals had been reported from a small boat near Lendalfoot, and the life-boat crew were assembled. The...
Thompson, of Whitby
On the 4th January, at 9 A.M., the brig Thompsons, of Whitby, in endeavouring to get into the harbour at Scarborough, missed the entrance and was driven on shore, the wind blowing a heavy gale from the eastward at the time. The Scarborough...
In at the deep end
What's it like to join lifeboat volunteers in the sea survival pool? Philly Byrde finds out ...
'This is your Captain speaking. Abandon ship! abandon ship!' Oh good. This is exactly...
Category: Articles
Books for Spring
For the young adventurer
School Ship Tobermory by Alexander McCall Smith Twins Ben and Fee MacTavish, who are nearly 13, are all set to join the school ship Tobermory, where youngsters from all over the world learn to...
Category: Articles
Honorary Workers of the Institution. No. 10.—Miss Letitia French, Honorary Secretary of the Palling Life-Boat Station
OF the many hundreds of honorary workers for the Life-boat Cause, those on whom the chief burden and respon- sibility fall are the Honorary Secretaries of the Life-boat Stations. It is a responsibility resting on them the whole time, from...
Category: Articles
Bolham and the Examination Vessel St. Silio
NOVEMBER 2ND. - NEW BRIGHTON. CHESHIRE. At 3.30 P.M. a message was received that a vessel near the wreck of the Pegu, on the revetment, needed help. A S.W. gale was blowing, with a moderate sea. At 3.59 P.M. the No. 1 motor life-boat William...