LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Professo
RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN. — The Two Sisters Life-boat was launched at 5.30 on the evening of the 2nd October, to the assistance of the brig Professo, of Tvedestrand, Norway, bound from Sundswall for Ramsey, with a cargo of timber. She was lying...
Rescue from Dutch Vessel on Fire
AT 8 p.m. on Sunday, iyth November, 1963, the honorary secretary of the Mumbles life-boat station, Captain C.
E. Mock, received an anticipatory mes- sage from the Mumbles coastguard.
This stated that the...
Category: Services
Forty Years of Motor Life-Boats
IT was .in 1904 that, as an experiment, the first petrol engine was fitted in a pulling and sailing life-boat. It was an engine of 10 horse power. Two years later three other sailing life-boats were fitted with larger engines. The experiment...
Category: Articles
Saved in the peck of time
Volunteers were diverted on their journey home, after launching to a rowing boat in difficulties that had since made it safely to shore. Eagle-eyed crew spotted a gannet struggling in Kinghorn Bay – it was tangled in plastic string along...
Category: Articles
Shenkin
YACHT REFLOATED ON RISING TIDE Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. At 5.35 on the evening of the 20th April, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small yacht was aground on the Shingles bank at the entrance to the Solent. The...
Johnno
Three saved from motor ship aground and awash off beachawash off beach Whitstable and Sheerness lifeboats were launched after the motor ship Johnno broadcast a Mayday on 12 January 1995. The vessel, on passage from the Isle of Grain to...
Naming Ceremonies: Two Station Lifeboats at Mallaig and Aldeburgh; Relief Lifeboat at Poole; and the Prototype Tyne Class Lifeboat In the City of London
Mallaig, Inverness-shire EARLIER BAD WEATHER on Saturday September 11, 1982, gave way to a bright sunny morning at the attractive west coast of Scotland harbour of Mallaig as preparations were made for the naming of the station's new...
Category: Inaugurations
The Prince of Wales and the Hastings Life-Boat
WHEN the Prince of Wales visited Hastings on 6th April to open the White Rock Pavilion and the new Promenade, he went aboard the Life-boat which was drawn up outside the Life-boat House. Beside the House the fishermen had built a remarkable...
Category: Articles
Message from the Duke of Kent
At the annual meeting, held on loth. July, Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the Institution, read a message from H.R.H. the Duke of Kent, K.G., President of the Institution, in which His Royal Highness said: "I want to convey my...
Category: Articles
The First Quarter of the Second Century
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 156 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to June 30th, 1949 - - 76,495 The First Quarter of the Second Century On the 4th of March...
Category: Articles