LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Experimental Motor Life-Boats
IN July, 1905, as will be seen by reference to the LIFE-BOAT JOURNAL for November, 1905, page 551, it was decided that three Life-boats should be installed with petrol motors, viz., Walton-on-the-Naze, Norfolk and Suffolk type, 43 ft. by 12...
Category: Articles
The End of Steam. Record of the Six Steam Life-Boats and the "Helen Peele" of Padstow
LAST spring, when the Motor Life-boat Princess Mary was sent to Padstow, the larger of the two Pulling and Sailing Life-boats at that station, and the Steam Tug, Helen Peele, were withdrawn from service, while the smaller Life-boat will,...
Category: Articles
Koo-She
Casualty taken in tow half-a-mile from rocks in on-shore galeThe RNLI's chief of operations has written to the secretary of the Sennen Cove lifeboat station commending the coxswain and crew for their actions during a service to a...
Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the February and March Meetings of the Committee of Management
Launches 65. Lives rescued 43.
Februar- eeting.
Rossi "--• „ Co. Wexford.—On the 20th uoer, 1938, the crew of four of the motor schooner M....
Category: Services
Nova
DOCTOR TAKEN TO GERMAN MOTOR VESSEL St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 6.11 on the morning of the 8th March, 1963, the St. Peter Port signal station informed the honorary secretary that the German motor vessel Nova of Stade, which was seven miles...
Neptunia
Torbay, Devon.—At 11.20 on the night of the 16th of February, 1955, the Brixham coastguard telephoned that a woman had reported that her husband had gone to Dartmouth with a friend to fetch the 24-feet motor boat Nep- tunia to Torquay. They...
Black Cat
St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 10.45 on the morning of the 22nd of June, 1958, a message was received from the motor vessel Channel Trader, on passage from Newhaven to Guernsey, that shehad passed the fishing boat Black Cat three miles north...
Bernard Claudine
St Helier, Jersey. At 3.34 on the afternoon of the 12th of August, 1958, a message was received that a yacht was attempting to tow another yacht two and a half miles from St. Helier harbour.
The tow rope was seen to part on...
Flamingo, of Stavanger
Longhope, Orkneys, and Wick, Caithness-shire - At 11.27 a.m. on 26th January, 1967, it was learned that a vessel was transmitting a Mayday call off Pentland Skerries. The Longhope life-boat T.G.B. was launched at 11.45 in a strong east by...
Ceremonies
When Her Majesty The Queen, accompanied by the Duke of Edinburgh, named a new lifeboat at Ramsgate on Friday 16 July, it was an historic occasion in more ways than one. This was the first time that a lifeboat was named in honour of a...
Category: Inaugurations