LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Nature of Services By Inshore Rescue Boats
CLASS Fishing boats - all types Motor vessels, motor boats, etc.
Sailing yachts, sailing dinghies, sailing boats3 motor cruisers and motor yachts Aircraft Small boats, canoes, rubber dinghies, etc.
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James Cocker and Sons
Launch the 160th anniversary of the RNLI by introducing THE COXSWAIN to your garden Produced by rose specialists James Cocker and Sons, Aberdeen, in limited quantity for RNLI friends and supporters, this peach pink, sweetly scented hybrid...
Category: Advertisement
Barrus
Together we build a better engine.
Lifeboats Royal National Lifeboat Institution Has been relying on Mariner Outboard Engines from E. P. Barrus Ltd for over 20 years.
These engines have been specially...
Category: Advertisement
Success and Provider
FEBRUARY 28TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
The fishing fleet was out and all the boats had returned by 1 P.M. with the exception of two, Success and Provider. A strong E.N.E. wind was blowing, with seas breaking three-quarters of...
Lifeboats and Lifeguards In Action
Turn to the centre Listings of the Lifeboat magazine and you may be amazed at how often lifeboats launch. Only a tiny proportion of these ever feature in the Lifeboat. Here's a snapshot of the wide range of other lifeboat services...
Category: Services
Accounts of Services by Life-boats (8)
SEPTEMBER
Launches 52. Lives rescued 115.
SEPT. 2ND. - WICK, CAITHNESS-SHIRE.
At 6.36 A.M. the coastguard informed the life-boat authorities that the trawler Washington, of Grimsby,...
Category: Services
J. W.A., of Aberayron
FISHGUARD, SOUTH WALES. — On the 15th October the No. 1 Life-boat, Sir Edward Perrott, was launched at about 2 P.M., during a whole gale from the W.N.W., signals of distrejs having been shown by the schooner J. W.A., of Aberayron, bound from...
The S.S. Gorm
LOWESTOFT.—On the 10th November, at about 4 A.M., signals of distress were seen from a vessel on the Holm Sand.
The No. 1 Life-boat Samuel Plimsoll was launched, and on reaching the sand found the s.s. Gorm, of Copenhagen,...
Java
The No. 1 Life-boat Bolion was launched at 12.30 A.M. on the llth April in response to distress signals from a vessel on the West Barnard Sands. On reaching the sands the tug Java, of London, was found stranded and the Life:boatmen were at...
Monarch
The sprit-sail barge Monarch, of London, whilst bound from London to Yarmouth, got into difficulties when off Harwich on the 6th January, owing to her steering gear getting out of order. In response to her distress signals, which were re-...