LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Launch of the Worthing Life-Boat for Testing the Use of Oil In a Rough Sea
LAUNCH OF THE WORTHING LIFE-BOAT FOR TESTING THE USE OF OIL IN A ROUGH SEA.
It will be remembered that oil was used with great effect in the service to the "Rohilla" in November, ... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Sailing Barge Britannic
Skegness, Lincolnshire.—On the morning of the 17th November, 1937, the Lynn Well Lightship reported, through Cromer and the local coastguard, that a barge seemed to be in distress about four miles away. An easterly gale was blowing, with a...
The Motor Coble Enterprize II
Whitby, Yorkshire.—On the morning of the 7th of December, 1950, the small motor coble Enterprize II had not returned from the fishing grounds.
A strong northerly breeze was blowing causing a dangerous swell on the bar; so...
Motor Life-Boats of the Institution. No. 5.—The 35 Feet 6 Inches Liverpool Type
As described in the article in the last issue of The Life-boat on the 35 feet 6' inches self-righting type of motor life-boat, the Institution was engaged from 1921 to 1929 in experiments on a motor life-boat which should be suffi-...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Empire Breeze
FEBRUARY 6TH and 12TH, and MARCH 7TH.
- AMBLE, NORTHUMBERLAND. At 11.45 P.M. on the 5th February the coastguard reported a vessel ashore at Druridge Bay, and the motor life-boat Frederick and Emma was launched 35 minutes...
The Launch Anglesey
LAUNCH TOWED Appledore, North Devon, and The Mumbles, Glamorganshire. On the I3th May, 1965, the launch Anglesey, belonging to the Royal Army Service Corps, arrived at Appledore with engine trouble and was moored. However, the moorings were...
The S.S. Ixion
The s.s.
Ixion, of Glasgow, while bound from Campbeltown to Coleraine with a cargo of coke, came to anchor in the Skerry Roads on the 14th April. She had been damaged off Bengore, her pumps were choked, and her fires were...
The Life-Boat Tradition
IN May last the Institution awarded a Lifeboatman Statuette to Miss Trudy Haylett, of Caister-on-Sea, Norfolk, for her work for the Institution in Yar- mouth and Caister. The name of Haylett is famous in the Life-boat history of the East...
Category: Articles
Thanks from the Admiralty
Following the assistance given by the Bembridge life-boat to H.M.S. Submarine Alliance after she had grounded in January, 1968, Admiral Sir John Frewen, K.C.B., Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth, wrote to the Institution: 'I should like to...
Category: Correspondence
The S.S.. Binnendijk
OCT. 7TH. - WEYMOUTH, DORSET. At 11.15 P.M. the coastguard informed the lifeboat station that signals of distress had been seen near Grove Point. A message was received a few minutes later that a ship was in distress, through enemy action,...