LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The first skin of mahogany being put over the framework of rock elm and oak on the 41-feet Beach type of motor life-boat stationed at Dungeness. - View image in PDF

Newcastle, Co. Down.—On the 8th of December, 1954, the S.S. Downshire, of Belfast, a collier bound for Dundrum from Garston, ran hard ashore on the sands three quarters of a mile west of Dundrum harbour entrance, but the life-boat was not...

The No. 1 motor life-boat H.F. Bailey was launched at 4.35 P.M. on the 13th February as a message had been received from the coastguard that the s.s. Campus, of Cardiff, was ashore on Haisborough Sands. The Campus, 2,249 tons, was bound from...

Clovelly, Devon. — At 9.20 in the morning of the 25th of September, 1951, the S.S. Rocquaine, of Guernsey; bound from Newport for Guernsey, signalled that three of her crew had been badly burnt by an explosion in her hold, and asked for the...

PORT EYNOR, GLAMORGANSHIRE.—The s.s. Ethiopia, of London, in ballast from Hamburg for Fort Talbot, stranded at Oxwich Point in a very thick fog, a moderate S.W. breeze and a heavy ground swell, on the night of the 23rd February.

Hutnber, Yorkshire.—At 10.7 on the morning of the 23rd of October, 1955, the Spurn Point coastguard telephoned that a message had been received from the Superintendent of the Trinity House depot at Great Yarmouth that a member of the crew of...

On the night of the 21st June the coastguard tele- phoned that a ship was ashore on Beachy Head ledge. The sea was smooth, but there was a very thick fog.

The Eastbourne life-boat was off ser- vice for overhaul and the...

Continuing a series of profiles of lifeboat classes By Keith Thatcher RNLI Naval Architect TI he RNLI's experiment with an in the Waveney class proved to Institution turned its attention to tended service...