LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
To the Help of Foreigners.
Of 1108 launches during the year 251 were to foreign vessels belonging to eighteen different countries and 608 lives were rescued from them. Never has the Lifeboat Service more faithfully carried out the promise which it made when it was...
Category: Articles
The long view
One hundred years on from the sinking of RMS Titanic we are reminded of the continuing perils of the sea with the recent with the Costa Concordia
Both incidents involved loss of life, with...
Category: Articles
The Duchess of Kent at the Depot
The Duchess of Kent at The Depot. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Naming of the St. Helier, Jersey, Life-Boat
THE Institution has replaced the pulling and sailing life-boat at St. Helier, Jersey, this year with a motor life-boat of the light Liverpool type, described on page 392. The new boat has been built out of a gift of £3,250 from...
Category: Inaugurations
The S.S. Shilbottle
At about 4.50 A.M. on 25th February a message was received from the Coastguards, stating that a vessel was ashore at the mouth of the River Bann, and that the Life-boat was wanted. The Life-boat Hopwood was launched as expeditiously as...
The Sonja
Campbeltown, Argyllshire.—At 2.10 P.M. on the 5th October, 1939, the Southend coastguard reported that a vessel had stranded on the Skerryvore Reef, Machrihanish. It was thought that the services of a tug might beneeded, and the tug...
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
A Trip In the Walmer Life-Boat
(This article appeared in Home Chat on the 29th of August, 1953.
It is reproduced by the courtesy of the editor.) THREE or four years ago, in the course of a television programme transmitted one summer's evening...
Category: Articles
Mignonette, of Southampton
Weymouth, Dorset - At 8.28 p.m. on 12th September, 1966, red flares were sighted in Weymouth Bay. The life-boat Frank Spiller Locke left her moorings at 8.48 in a strong westerly wind and a rough sea. The tide was ebbing. She proceeded to a...
The S.S. Stellatus
Wick, Caithness-shire. At 5.29 on the morning of the 3rd of March, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorarysecretary that the s.s. Stellatus of Helsingborg, Sweden, was ashore near Freswick Bay but was in no immediate danger. At 5.50 the...