LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
People and Places
a r o u n d and a b o u t t h e RNLI A fifty-first occasion for lottery draw To mark the RNLI's 51st national lottery, Brigadier Mike Wingate-Gray QBE MC and Bar, who served with the 1st Battalion, The Black Watch in the 51st Highland...
Category: Articles
A Baptism By Fire And Water
A BAptism By fiRe ANd WAteR At the northernmost tip of mainland Scotland, the waters of the Atlantic Ocean siphon into the North Sea and back again, twice a day, through a churning channel less than 7 miles wide. One new recruit will always...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Services (1)
Aberdovey, Gwynedd Atlantic 22: June 11, July 10,16, 23,24, 25,27 (twice) and 30 (twice) Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic 21 :June 2 Relief Atlantic 21: June 21, 26 and July 27 Aith, Shetland 52ft Aran ON 1200: June 5,12, 21, July 4,9 and 28...
Category: Services
The S.S. Bodil
The s.s. Bodll, of Esbjerg, was totally wrecked on the ! Haisborough Sands on the 27th May whilst bound from Sweden to South- | ampton with a cargo of timber. A i strong N.E. breeze was blowing at the time and the sea was rough. A...
Trials for Two
An investigation, by instrument and direct observation, into hull sea-keeping ability at high speed in rough water and the resultant fatigue experienced by man and machinery 50' Thames class prototype and 52' Arun Mk, II off...
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Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 30th April, 1925.
Sir GODFREY BARING, St., in the Chair.
Reported the resignation from the Committee of Management of Engineer Vice- Admiral Sir GEORGE G. GOODWIN,...
Category: Committee
Disaster at Arbroath
ON the night of the 26th of October, 1953, the Arbroath life-boat Robert Lindsay and the Anstruther life-boat James and Ruby Jackson were both launched in answer to distress rockets which had been seen three miles east of...
Category: Services
The Screw Flat Victoria
The screw flat Victoria, of Liverpool, bound from Pen- maenmawr to Birkenhead with a cargo of macadam, became unmanageable in the Rock Channel on the 12th March, in consequence of a mishap to the steering gear and the bursting of the...
The Stranding of the Steamships "Mohegan," "Labrador," "Stella" and "Paris."
WITHIN the last twelve months four remarkable cases of the stranding of large steamships have taken place on our shores, each of such vessels carrying a numerous crew besides a considerable number of passengers. Two of these steamers in the...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Services (1)
Aberdeen, Grampian D class: Aug 12 Aberdovey, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: Aug 2, 3 (twice), 7 (twice), 13, 14, 17 (twice), 20, 24, Sept 4, 5 (twice), 11 and 26 Abersoch, Gwynedd Relief Atlantic21: Aug4,17,23,28 (five times), Sept 5, 11 and 14...
Category: Services