LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lifeboat Services
South Eastern Division Storm-disabled sloop THE DUTY OFFICER at the Needles Coastguard saw a red distress flare to westward, estimated two to three miles distant, at 0108 on Sunday, September 14, 1975. The honorary secretary of Yarmouth,...
Category: Services
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
CAISTER, NORFOLK. — Signal - rockets were fired by the Wold Light-vessel on the morning of the 31st May last. The weather was squally, a strong breeze blowing from the KN.W., and there was a heavy sea. At 3 o'clock the No. 2 Life- boat...
Category: Services
The Princess Royal at Runswick. Inaugural Ceremony of "Robert Patton—The Always Ready."
Inaugural Ceremony of " Robert Patton—The Always Ready." H.R.H. The Princess Royal named the new motor life-boat at Runswick Bay, Yorkshire, on 20th September, in the presence of over 5,000 people from all parts of Yorkshire.<...
Category: Inaugurations
The Danish Motor Fishing Vessel Opal
HUGE WAVE UPSET LIFE-BOAT ON the evening of 20th January last year the Danish motor fishing vessel Opal sailed from Buckle and set a course for the Fladden fishing grounds. At about 10.30 p.m. it was discovered that the engine room was...
Southern Scott
Fishing boat aground THE HONORARY SECRETARY of Peel lifeboat station was informed by Ramsey Coastguard at 0145 on Saturday March 29 that the motor fishing vessel Southern Scott was aground on Old Bath's Beach just to the north east of...
The Norwegian Motor Ship Oslo Fjord, and British Officer (1)
BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT TYNEMOUTH DECEMBER 1ST AND 8TH.-CULLERCOATS AND TYNEMOUTH, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At 8.50 in the morning the Cullercoats life-boat station received a message from the Tynemouth coastguard that a vessel had...
Life-Boat Accidents
THE disaster which befell the Kingstown No. 2 Life-boat on the 24th December, 1895, naturally turns people's thoughts to the subject of Life-boat accidents.
Although the proportion of accidents to the launching of the...
Category: Articles
Launching and Recovery—Part III: Tractor and Carriage Launch By Edward Wake-Walker Assistant Public Relations Officer (London)
SEAMEN, FISHERMEN and private boat owners all know that whenever they put to sea, together with an awareness of the state of the weather and of what is forecast, the state of the tide is of paramount importance to their...
Category: Articles
The Use of a Line Thrown to Wrecked Vessels from the Shore
IT is a commonly-received opinion, that if a line can only be thrown over a stranded vessel, the salvation of those on board her is almost secured. It seems to be presumed that those at either end of this slender com- munication, after...
Category: Articles
Fund Raisers
The Grace Darling appeal Arabella and Martha Dancy, pupils at Putney High School, Lytton House, help to organise and took part in a Great Teddy Bear Contest in order to raise money for the appeal. The school hall was filled with 200 teddy...
Category: Articles