LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THE following brief description and diagrams illustrative of a complete Life-boat Establishment, including the House for the protection of the boat, will serve to convoy an idea of the general character of one of the 300 Life-boat Stations...

THE following brief description and diagrams illustrative of a complete Life-boat Establishment, including the House for the protection of the boat, will serve to convey an idea of the general character of one of the 280 Life-boat Stations...

JULY 16TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.

At 1 A.M. the coastguard telephoned the life-boat coxswain that a vessel was ashore at Robin Hood’s Bay, and the No. 1 motor lifeboat Mary Ann Hepworth was launched at 1.30 A.M. The weather...

INDIAN SHIP AGROUND Hartlepool, Co. Durham. At 10.15 a.m. on i4th March, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a vessel was ashore at Longscar. There was a full gale from the south-east with a rough sea. The crew...

SINCE the publication of the Report of the Northumberland Life-boat Committee, a good deal has been said and written on the subject of the self-righting principle in life-boats in the event of their being upset, a quality which was strongly...

FOUR RESCUED FROM SAILING DINGHY Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 8.25 on the morning of Sunday the 25th August, 1963, the coastguard told the assistant honorary secretary that the s.s. Baltic Sun had reported a small boat in difficulties near...

GORLESTON.—At 11.30 P.M., on the 4th May, guns were fired by the St. Nicholas Lightship, in response to which the Lifeboat Leicester immediately put off and proceeded to the Scroby Sand. The weather at the time was thick, with rain; the wind...

The motor life-boat Edward and Isabella Irwin was launched at 9.55 A.M. on the 24th December, as a fisherman had repo'rted that the motor fishing boat White Lady appeared to be in need of help. A strong S.E. gale was blowing, with a...