LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Ellesmere
At about 5.30 P.M. on the 27th September the Coastguard reported that a vessel close to the Runnel Stone rocks was flying signals for medical assistance and for a pilot. The weather was rough and threatening, with an E.S.E. gale blow- ing,...
The Cyprus-Registered Cargo Vessel Retriever (1)
TWO BOATS AT SEA FOR A TOTAL OF 13 HOURS Escort for listing cargo boat in 70 knot winds Sennen Cove and Clovelly - South West Division Sennen Cove's relief Rother The Davys Family was launched in winds gusting up to 71 knots on 25 March...
The Life-Boat
The following drawings show the general outline and principal fittings of a 34 feet by 7* feet self-righting boat. Figure 1 gives the profile or broadside view, the shaded part showing that devoted to the air-cases, which give extra buoyancy...
Category: Articles
Anchors: Old Forms and Recent Developments
By Captain ANTHONY S. THOMSON, C.B., Elder Brother of Trinity House, Commander B.N.B.
Reprinted from the " Journal of the Royal United Service Institution," by permission.
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Category: Articles
On July 12 at the Baltic Exchange London His Excellency the Greek Ambassador
On July 12, at the Baltic Exchange, London, His Excellency The Greek Ambassador presented nautical gallantry medals to the men who were coxswain and crew ofSt Peter Port lifeboat when, on January 4, 1979, she had, together with helicopters,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Canoe (2)
Humber, Yorkshire. At 1.42 on the afternoon of the 15th of May, 1960, the coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that a canoe had cap- sized two miles south-west of Spurn Point. At 3.50 the life-boat City of Bradford III was...
With the Help of Mr. Clayton Love, Jnr., Member of the Committee of Management, Who Was Admiral of the Royal Cork Yacht Club at the Time, the Dublin Office Has Acquired a Quantity of Special
With the help of Mr. Clayton Love, jnr., member of the Committee of Management, who was Admiral of the Royal Cork Yacht Club at the time, the Dublin Office has acquired a quantity of special First Day Covers (as illustrated) for sale at 40p... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lifeboat Services
LIFEBOAT AREA No.10 Boy on rocks FOUR MEMBERS of the 1LB crew were working at Tramore pier, Co. Waterford, close by the boathouse at 7 p.m. on June 28, 1973, when a youth came up, greatly agitated, to tell them that a boy had been trapped on...
Category: Services
Mazeppa, of Harwich
Hythe.—The ketch Mazeppa, of Harwich, a small vessel of seventy-two tons, came to anchor in Hythe Bay about midnight on the l-2nd April. At about 2.30 A.M. the vessel dragged her anchors and drifted towards the shore,and the master,...
Sir William Corry, Bt
BY the death on 9th June last, in his 68th year, of Sir William Corry, Bt., one of the Directors of the Cunard Line and the Dominion and Commonwealth Line, the Institution lost a friend who for many years had given it the help and advice of...
Category: Obituaries