LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Goodwins Spare a Ship
As described on page 126, the Goodwin Sands seldom spare vessels that run aground. But occasionally they are lucky. At 3.36 p.m. on 30th March, 1971, the Walmer honorary secretary picked up a message reporting that the tanker Panther of...
Category: Services
"God Help the Poor Fellows at Sea!"
FAR away inland, when tempests blow Wild through the dark'ning night, We list to the roar of the winds as they go, On their hurricane steeds to the fight; For the hosts of the Storm King are gathering fast Where the white-crested waters...
Category: Poetry
Crescence
Seaham, Durham.—At 9.45 on the night of the 13th of July, 1949, the coastguard telephoned a message from Cullercoats Radio Station that a vessel was in distress, four miles east of Seaham Harbour, and the life-boat Elizabeth Witts Allen was...
Sibbald's Ship Communicator
An ingenious invention having the above title has recently been patented by R. G.SIBBALD, Esq., a surgeon, residing at Liver- pool. Its object is to enable a ship to carry a line to the land on a lee-shore, or to another vessel or boat, or...
Category: Articles
Mass capsize in the lough
PORTAFERRY/NEWCASTLE | 11 AUGUST
Portaferry and Newcastle RNLI crews were part of a multi-service response to a large-scale rescue on Strangford Lough, Co Down. Eighty-eight boats were taking part in a...
Category: Articles
Opening of the New Headquarters: the President Hrh the Duke of Kent With (I to R) the Director Captain Nigel Dixon and the Chairman Major-General Ralph Farrant
Opening of the new headquarters: The President, HRH The Duke of Kent, with (I. to r.) the Director, Captain Nigel Dixon, and the Chairman, Major-General Ralph Farrant.
photograph by courtesy of Bournemouth News and Picture... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Shore-Boat Services Rewarded By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution In 1892
Jan. 2.—Three men s-aved a man who had fallen overboard from the hrigantine Thomas, of Lowestoft, which was lying at anchor oS Lowestoft Harbour.—Reward, 15s.
Jan. 5.—Six men saved four fishermen whose boat hnd been...
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 Ibs., minimum 25 Ibs.) to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support...
Category: Articles
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Category: Advertisement
The Life-Boat Transporting-Carriage
The Life-boat transporting-carriage is a very important auxiliary to the boat.
Nearly every Life-boat, except a few of the larger sizes, is provided with a carriage, on which she is kept in the boat-house ready for...
Category: Articles