LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Motor Fishing Coble Provider
On the morning of the 5th April a telephone message was received from the New- biggin coxswain that the motor fishing coble Provider, of Newbiggin, was in difficulties off Cresswell, and that as the Newbiggin life-boat was off service...
Zetland, the Oldest Survmg Lifeboat
Zetland, the oldest survmg lifeboat is of the Greathead type and was built in 1800. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Fishery Protection Vessel Vaila
Stornoway, Hebrides.—At 5.50 on the morning of the 6th of January, 1957, the coastguard telephoned that the fishery protection vessel Vaila was ashore north of Craigmore, Isle of Lewis, and was making water. Shortly afterwards a message was...
The Life-Boat of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
Fig. l.
Deck Plan.
Fig. 3.
Fig. 4.
Body Plan. Midship Section.
The accompanying figures show the general form, the nature of the fittings, and air...
Category: Articles
With the Life-Boat Crew
A SHRIEKING sky and a wind-torn sea— Steadily lads I And sheltered under the Life-boat's lee— Steadily lads! Storm-marked faces and shaggy hair, Jackets of rusty blue, Men who will do and will not despair— Men of the Life-boat...
Category: Poetry
The Life-Boat Stations of the United Kingdom
THE ISLE OF WIGHT AND ITS LIFE-BOATS.
XLIV. BROOKS.—The George and Anne, 32 feet by 7 feet 6 inches, 10 oars.
XLV. BRIGHSTONE GRANGE.—The Worcester Cadet, 34 feet by 8 feet, 10...
Category: Articles
The Drilling Rig Bedford X
Blackpool, Lancashire - At 10.40 a.m. on 4th June, 1966, the owners of the drilling rig BedfordX stated that the rig was in danger a quarter of a mile west of the central pier owing to a large steel caisson having broken loose. There were...
Progress of the New Fleet
Ix 1949 eleven life-boats were com- pleted and sent to the coast. Another twenty more were under construction when the year ended.
Before the war a life-boat took, on an average, a year to build. After the war the time at...
Category: Articles
The German Fishing Boat Angela
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- folk. At 11.8 on the morning of the 10th of May, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the German fishing boat Angela had an injured man on board, who needed a doctor. The boat was due...
The Belgian Trawler Vierge Marie
Wrecked on the Cornish coast 11th January, 1937. (See page 277.). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs