LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Vessel (36)
DECEMBER 6TH. - PORT ASKAIG, ARGYLLSHIRE. A vessel was reported to need help off Skerryvore Lighthouse, but no definite position could be given ; visibility was nil, and the life-boat abandoned the search. A second message was received that...
To Commemorate Tynemouth Lifeboat Station's Centenary In 1962 a Stained Glass Window Was Dedicated In Christ Church North Shields It Depicts the Original 1789 Con
To commemorate Tynemouth lifeboat station's centenary, in 1962, a stained glass window was dedicated in Christ Church, North Shields. It depicts the Original, 1789, Constance, on station in 1862,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Education of Seamen, and Marine Schools
THERE are still many persons in this country, although they are doubtless a diminishing number, who maintain that the education ol the lower classes of society is injurious to them, as unfitting them for the station in which they were born,...
Category: Articles
New Rother Class Life-Boat
Once the decision had been taken to fit all new life-boats with radar it was clear that the design of the 37-foot Oakley class of self-righting life-boat would have to be modified appreciably to enable radar to be fitted. The opportunity was...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
HOLYHEAD.—While a strong gale was blowing from N.W., accompanied by a heavy sea and rain, on the evening of the 6th Aug., 1900, the Coxswain of the Life-boat observed a barque dragging her anchors and driving towards the Nimrod rocks. He...
Category: Services
Last Year An IRB Was Commissioned at Selsey Sussex Where There Has Been a Conventional Life-Boat Station Since 1861 the IRB Crew Consists of Three Fishermen—Two
Last year an IRB was commissioned at Selsey, Sussex, where there has been a conventional life-boat station since 1861. The IRB crew consists of three fishermen—two who fish for lobsters and one who fishes for white fish. Here they are shown... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Experimental Floating Stretchers
TRIALS ARE AT PRESENT in progress on two different possible answers to the same problem: how best to achieve a stretcher which will float. While flotation is obviously a desirable extra safeguard in any marine situation, there are also many...
Category: Articles
January 29 1976: British Airways Helicopter Lifts Off Crew of 17 from Trawler Ben Gulvain When With Engine Failure She Had Run Aground Near Aberdeen In Gale Force Winds
January 29, 1976: British Airways helicopter lifts off crew of 17 from trawler Ben Gulvain when, with engine failure, she had run aground near Aberdeen in gale force winds.
photograph by courtesy of Miss I. M.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Letters
WHEN I WAS FOUR...
0 My first contribution to the R.N.L.I, was made at the age of approximately 4 years in 1897, this being on the occasion of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. There was a procession through the town...
Category: Correspondence
A Cabin Cruiser
Outboard failure A RED HANDFLARE from a cabin cruiser about two miles east of Cullercoats Harbour was sighted by Tyne Coastguard at 1232 on Sunday September 26, 1982.
Cullercoats lifeboat station was informed and at 1239...