LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lupia
At 8.28 p.m. on igth April, 1967, it was seen that the Dutch coaster Lupia anchored off Longnose Ledge was dragging her anchor. The vessel, showing only a mast-light, made no response to shore signals. The life-boat North Foreland (Civil...
Mary
Hythe, Kent.—At about 8.15 P.M. on the 23rd May, 1939, the motor life-boat Viscountess Wakefield was off Beachy Head on passage from Cowes to her station after overhaul. There she saw the motor cruiser Mary, of Chichester, with her engine...
Mersey
Length 11.77m (38ft 7in) Beam 4m (13ft) Displacement Approx. 14 tons Speed 16 knots Range 140 n. miles Crew 6 Construction Aluminium or FRC. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Teasel (2)
Ramsey, Douglas, and Peel, Isle of Man.
•—Just before half past five in the evening of the 6th of January, 1948, the coastguard informed the Ramsey life-boat station that the motor vessel Teasel was six miles east of the...
Services of the Life-Boats In April, May and June, 1954. 91 Lives Rescued
APRIL DURING April life-boats were launched 26 times and rescued 22 lives.
THREE MEN RESCUED FROM SAILING BOAT Margate, Kent.—At 2.50 on the after- noon of the 1st of April, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that he had...
Category: Services
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
GORLESTON, SUFFOLK AND WELLS, 1 NOKFOLK.—The large sailing Life-boat on j the Gorleston station, which was transferred there from Great Yarmouth in 1883, having become unfit for further service, has recently been replaced by a new boat of...
Category: Articles
Key Retirement Solutions
I enjoy a more prosperous retirement EX-SERVICE MAN MAKES THE MOST OF HIS RETIREMENT YEARS WITH AN EQUITY RELEASE SCHEME Flying for the first time into the airfield he had helped to build whilst serving in Burma during the Second World War,...
Category: Advertisement
Oldham the Second of Hoylake's Four Liverpool Lifeboats Which Spanned the Years 1906 to 1974; the First Was a Pulling and Sailing Boat the Last Three Motor Oldham
Oldham, the second of Hoylake's four Liverpool lifeboats which spanned the years 1906 to 1974; the first was a pulling and sailing boat, the last three motor. Oldham, presented by the town of Oldham, was on station from 1931 to 1952; she... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
ABERSOCH, CAERNARVONSHIRE. — While the wind was blowing, with the force of a whole gale to a storm, from W.N.W. to N.W., with terrific squalls and a very heavy sea, on the 12th Jan. last, signals of distress were exhibited by the schooner...
Category: Services
The Caister Life-Boat Disaster
THE terrible disaster which overtook one of the Life-boats belonging to the Institution, stationed at Caister on the coast of Norfolk, in November last will be fresh in the minds of our readers.
The expressions of sympathy...
Category: Articles