LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The House-Boat Petrina (1)
Dungeness, Kent, and Hastings, Sus- sex. At 10.12 on the night of the 1st of January, 1959, the coastguard at Fairlight informed the Hastings honor- ary secretary that two flares had been seen south-east of the look-out. At 10.45 the...
The Fisher Boy, of Wick
JANUARY 24TH. - THURSO, CAITHNESSSHIRE.
At 12.5 in the afternoon a fisherman telephoned from Melvick that a fishing boat was in distress about seven miles east of Port Skerra, and the motor life-boat...
The Auxiliary Fishing Smack Alice
JULY 23RD. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. At 6 P.M. information was received from the Mersey Dock Board that a fishing vessel was ashore on Burbo Bank, west of the training wall. There was not sufficient water to get near the vessel, but she was...
The Wreck Register and Chart for the Year Ended the 30th June, 1886
YEAR after year the Board of Trade draws public attention to the shipping catas- trophes occurring on our rock-bound shores, as though to remind us that a large proportion of the luxuries and comforts we daily enjoy are obtained at the cost...
Category: Articles
The Life-Belt Used By the Crews of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution.
The requisite qualities of a life-boatman's life-belt- are— 1. Sufficient extra buoyancy (maximum 28 Iba, minimum 25 Ibs.) to support a mtm heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support...
Category: Articles
The Faroese Motor Vessel Harry
MAY 25TH. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE.
The Faroese motor vessel Harry had been reported on fire, but on her way out the life-boat learned from H.M.
trawler Ebor Abbey that she had found the Harry...
The 42' Belgian Sloop Colombe
Belgian sloop aground LYMINGTON ILB STATION deputy launching authority received a telephone message at 2035 on Friday, November11, 1977, from HM Coastguard Needles saying that the 42' Belgian sloop Colombe had called on her RT to say...
The Life-Boat Transporting-Carriage
The Life-boat transporting-carriage is a very important auxiliary to the boat.
Every Life-boat, except a few of the larger size, is provided with a carriage, on which she is kept in the boat-house ready for immediate...
Category: Articles
The Henry Blogg. The First Sea Lord's Tribute to the Life-Boat Service
IN December, 1945, the Institution sent to Cromer one of the first two of a new type of 46-feet Watson -cabin life-boat. In them, for the first time, the steering wheels were placed amidships instead of at the stern. This boat was sent to...
Category: Inaugurations
Capella, of the Faroe Islands
AUGUST 28TH. - ST. MARY’S, ISLES OF SCILLY. At 9.45 in the morning the coastguard reported a fishing vessel, about six miles south-east-by-east of St. Martin’s Head, not under control. A fresh westerly gale was blowing and the sea was very...