LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Showboat - and Carriage
So often the Cinderella... This year a sizeable stand at the London Boat Show enabled the Talus tractor and sophisticated Mersey launching carriage to share the limelight with the lifeboat they launch. Photo Mike Anker, Take Two. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lifeboat Services
Scotland South Division Breeches buoy rescue TWO PEOPLE IN DANGER, stranded on a rock at the mouth of the River Dee, were reported to the deputy launching authority of Kirkcudbright lifeboat station by Ardrossan Coastguard at 1321 on Sunday,...
Category: Services
Station upgrades
Further to our previous coverage of RNLI shoreworks, we can report that the charity is wrapping up its appeal to fund a new boathouse at Exmouth, Devon, now that it has reached its target.
Exmouth’s facilities are much in...
Category: Articles
The Government Barges L.C.M. 1144 and L.C.M. 1229
JANUARY 6TH. - CAISTER, NORFOLK.
At 1.5 in the afternoon, the Great Yarmouth coastguard reported two barges aground on Scroby Sands. A fresh westerly wind was blowing, with a choppy sea. The motor life-boat Jose'...
"Many Inventions."
IT is only natural in this and other countries that the humane desire to improve the means for saving life from shipwreck should appeal to and occupy the minds of men -with a turn for invention or mechanically...
Category: Articles
Classification of Services and Lives Saved By Inshore Rescue Boats
600 CATEGORY (1) Naval vessels . .
(2) Foreign going merchant vessels (3) Home trade merchant vessels (4) Commercial fishing vessels . .
(5) Powered pleasure craft . .
(6) Sailing...
Category: Services
An Estonian Steamer and King Egbert
DEC. 12TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At 12.20 P.M.
a message was received from the coastguard that an Estonian steamer in the roadstead had picked up a shipwrecked crew and had asked that the life-boat should...
The American Steamer Chrysanthy Star and Energetic (1)
Cadgwith, and Penlee, Cornwall and St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly.—At 11.5 on the night of the 25th of June, 1948, during a thick fog, the Cadgwith coast- guard telephoned the Cadgwith life- boat station that the American steamer Chrysanthy...
150 Years Old
Ix 1950 the Committee of Management of the Institution resolved that life- boat stations which had been pre- sented with a vellum to commemorate the completion of a hundred years would be presented with another to mark the completion of a...
Category: Articles
British Valour and Cruiser
Girvan, Ayrshire.—At 7.30 on the morning of the 24th of May, 1954, the Portpatrick coastguard telephoned that the tug Cruiser had reported that she had the tanker British Valour, of London, in tow four miles south- south-west of Ailsa Craig,...