LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Isa
MOELFRE, ANGLESEY.—On the night of the 21st December, during a thick fog, the schooner Isa, of Inverness, bound from Charlestown for Euncorn with a cargo of china clay, struck on the Dolas Bocks and became a total wreck. On the following...
New Ways of Raising Money
A VARIATION of the old game of musical chairs was played at the eleventh birthday party of the Hornchurch Sea Cadets early this year. A pot was passed round a circle of people. The pot had to be kept moving but when the music stoppe'd...
Category: Donations
A Weekend In September
Saturday and Sunday, September 13 and 14, 1975: 47 launches on service FOUR AWARDS FOR GALLANTRYTWO SILVER MEDALS, a bronze medal, a vellum, 47 launches on service, 34 lives rescued, nine vessels saved, 172 hours at sea. Not a record by RNLI...
Category: Services
A Rescue from a Fort In the Mersey
ON the afternoon of the 22nd of September, a south-westerly gale was blowing in the mouth of the Mersey with rain squalls and breaking seas twenty feet high. In those heavy seas the military authorities were afraid for the safety of -one of...
Category: Services
The Last Arun Class Lifeboat to Be Built - 52-46 Duke of Atholl
The last Arun class lifeboat to be built - 52-46 Duke of Atholl - was alongside Festival Pier during the meetings and those attending were able to view her before she departed to escort the Little Ships.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Merchant Shipping (Life-Saving Appliances) Act, 1888, and the Rules Framed Under Its Provisions
OUR readers may remember that a recent number of this Journal contained an article on the Report of the Select Committee of the House of Commons on Saving Life at Sea. The recommendations of that Committee were in due course embodied in a...
Category: Articles
Flora Dora
JUNE 30TH. - THURSO, CAITHNESSSHIRE At 5.35P.M. a message was received from the Wick coastguard that an auxiliary fishing boat was in distress six miles E.N.E. of Dunnet Head. The wind was light and variable and the sea smooth. At 5.45 P.M....
A Gold-Medal Service at Ballycotton
By Mr. Robert H. Mahony, Honorary Secretary of the Ballycotton Station.
ON Friday, 7th February, 1936, a gale from the south-east sprang up on the south coast of Ireland, with a very heavy sea. The gale increased until,...
Category: Services
The Oxford Branch
AN Oxford Committee of the Life-boat Saturday Fund was formed in 1900 by the late Commander Maunsell, R.N., and Mr. Belcham, Headmaster of St. Peter-iu-the-East School, who still takes a keen interest in the work of the Institution. By means...
Category: Articles
Below Bottom PictureThe Fastest Lifeboat
Below, bottom picture.The fastest lifeboat at the conference was the Dutch rigid inflatable Johannes Frederic class. This 14.4m (47ft) rigid inflatable with an aluminium hull is capable of 36 knots, almost the fastest lifeboat at the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs