LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Coningbeg Lightvessel
Kilmore, Co. Wexford.—At 2.5 in the afternoon on the 19th of March, 1950, a message was relayed by the Valentia radio station from the Coningbeg Light- vessel. She asked for the life-boat as a man on board the lightvessel was sick, suffering...
Pride o' the Clyde
Campbeltown, Argyllshire.—At 6.25 in the morning of the 28th of February, 1952, a life-boatman picked up on his wireless set a message from the motor fishing boat Pride o' the Clyde, of Tarbert, that she was aground at Skipness Point and...
The Mail Boat Hibernia
Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin. At 5.45 p.m. on 6th October, 1965, a British Railways representative informed the honorary secretary that the mail boat Hibernia was fog bound in Scotsmens Bay. She had been there since 6.30...
The Best Essay
By OSMOND PATTISON HANDFORD ROBB (14), Royal High School, Edinburgh.
Imagine that You have been Shipwrecked, and Rescued by a Life-boat. Describe Your Experiences.
THE sea was turbulent; a thick fog...
Category: Articles
The Converted Whaler Searanger
Barry Dock, Glamorganshire - At 1.40 p.m. on 7th August, 1966, news wasreceived that a boat had been swamped off Lavernock Point and her three occupants were in the water. At 1.50 the life-boat Rachel and Mary Evans was launched in a strong...
The Saturday Club
The Saturday Club for deaf and partially hearing children aged 8 to 16, Newport, Isle of Wight, includes many outdoor activities in its programme, and four weeks of special efforts for the RNLI culminated in an exhibition football match... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Sailing Boat Seagull (1)
Lowestoft, and Kessingland, Suffolk.— On the afternoon of 16th September, 1938, the coastguard reported that he had seen the sailing boat Sea-gull, of Lowestoft, capsize about three miles south of the harbour entrance. A fresh south breeze...
The Amazon, of Gothenburg
On the 17th Sept. the Life-boat Van Kook res- cued 5 men, who, having been engaged in saving wreckage from the Amazon, of Gothenburg, lost on the Goodwin Sands on the previous day, were placed in a position of extreme peril by the increase...
The Abertay Light-vessel
Broughty Ferry, Angus.—On the night of the 20th January the life-boat stood by Abertay light-vessel.— Rewards, £13 Is.
(A full account of this service and of the rescue of the light-vessel's crew by the life-boat...
Heavy Weather Training In the USA By Lt Alan Tate Staff Officer Operations (Training)
AT THE MOUTH of the Columbia River on the state border between Oregon and Washington lies Cape Disappointment.
Here, where the great Pacific rollers meet the outrushing river as it disgorges its contents into the ocean, is...
Category: Articles