LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Oil Tank Steamer Weehawken
At 6.30 P.M. on the 23rd January a message was received stating that a vessel was in distress about ten miles off Trevose Head. The Institution's tug was dispatched to her assistance, but in the darkness failed to find the vessel. She...
The Norwegian Fishing Boat Reform
Barra Island, Outer Hebrides. At 9.50 on the evening of 27th April, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that the Norwegian fishing boat Reform, with an injured man aboard, fifty miles north-north-west of Barra Head, had...
Held Up at the Lights...
Transporting a 17m Severn hull from the moulders to the fitting-out yard isn't easy at the best of times - but everyone could have done without this particular problem! With the route planned to the last detail and a police escort the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Treatment of the Apparently Drowned
ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION.
Supported solely by Voluntary Contributions.
DIRECTIONS FOR RESTORING THE APPARENTLY DROWNED.
THE leading principles of the following Directions...
Category: Articles
Building the Fast Slipway Lifeboat—Part V: Behind the Scenes
ABOVE AND BELOW DECKS, the first prototype of the fast slipway lifeboat (FSB) is gradually taking shape in Fairey Marine's yard at Cowes. With some of the work progress is obvious; other jobs involve perhaps weeks of 'behind the...
Category: Articles
The Cuttle and Thorpe Grange
TOWED TO MOORINGS At 7.30 a.m. on 6th October, 1964, the nightwatchman reported that the reserve life-boat The Cuttle appeared to be dragging her anchor inside Spurn Point, in the rough seas and near gale force westerly winds. At 7.50 the...
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 Motor Fishing Coble Helena
Whitby, Yorkshire. — During the afternoon of the 15th of September, 1948, a sudden storm sprang up and the local fishing fleet returned to har- bour, but the motor fishing coble Helena did not arrive, and about 3.45 the coastguard telephoned...
The Ex-R.N.L.I. Life-Boat The Ivy Dale
Humber, Yorkshire.—At 9.30 in the morning of the 3rd of June, 1952, the Spurn . Point coastguard telephoned that an ex-R.N.L.I. life-boat, the Ivy Dale, of London, had run ashore off Withernsea and had damaged her rudder. She asked for the...
The French Lugger, Louise Amelie
On the 12th December, 1858, the French lugger Louise Amelie got embayed and was driven on shore near Newcastle in a heavy gale from S.S.E.- The life-boat belonging to the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, sta- tioned at Newcastle, was...