LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Laertes
FEBRUARY 3RD. - EASTBOURNE, AND HASTINGS, SUSSEX. The Dutch steamer Laertes, of Amsterdam, had struck a mine S.E. of the Royal Sovereign Lightship, and had caught fire, but she was able to reach a Dutch port under her own power. - Rewards :...
Diesel Engines In Life-Boats
THE problem of finding the ideal method of providing a life-boat with mechanical power has occupied the minds of de- signers and engineers for more than a century. For many years experiments were made with steam. At the Great Exhibition of...
Category: Articles
TRAPPED IN AN INFERNO
EASTBOURNE | 22 MARCH
Two men in Eastbourne had a lucky escape when their motor cruiser went up in flames. Local fishermen pulled them to safety and used the cruiser’s anchor to prevent it from drifting towards the pier. There was...
Category: Articles
A Fishing Boat (1)
Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—At 3.33 in the afternoon of the 23rd of April, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that a local fishing boat, with a crew of two, had capsized one mile south of Sizewell, and at 3.50 the No. 1 life-boat, Abdy Beauclerk,...
Feature New Kids on the Block
The unprecedented events of 29 June 2000 sum up the brief history of Crosshaven lifeboat station. At around 6.30pm that day Owen Medland, deputy divisional inspector of lifeboats for Ireland, made the final phone call which turned Atlantic...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Services
CREW TRAPPED AND INJURED BY PIER SUPPORT Atlantic damaged while saving girls trapped in heavy surf under pier For the first time in the history of the RNLI the three-man crew of an Atlantic class lifeboat have been awarded a Silver and two...
Category: Services
Letters
ALL SPICK AND SPAN • I should like to record my appreciation and thanks for THE LIFE-BOAT which reaches me from time to time. It is full of interest and having absorbed the contents I circulate it around my ship.
It is...
Category: Correspondence
Hma: Robert Haworth MRCS Lrcp Da Eng of Barmouth
One of the key people at every lifeboat station is the honorary medical adviser, a local general practitioner who takes into his care the routine medical oversight of boat and crew and who, while not necessarily required by his appointment...
Category: Articles
January
JANUARY Launches 71. Lives rescued 221.
JANUARY 3RD. - ARRANMORE, CO. DONEGAL. A fishing boat was caught in a S.E. gale with a very rough sea. The motor life-boat K.T.J.S. was launched at 10.20 A.M., found the boat five...
Category: Services
Aiming High! The Navy Again Took Part In Portsmouth Life-Boat Day. Among Others Who Helped Were the Portsmouth Brotherhood
Aiming High! The Navy Again Took Part In Portsmouth Life-Boat Day Among Others Who Helped Were The Portsmouth Brotherhood. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs