LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Building the Fast Slipway Lifeboat—Part III: Plated Up
THE STEEL HULL of the fast slipway lifeboat is built upside down, so that the welder can look down on his work, both making the work easier and also making it possible for him to achieve the best results: the integrity and strength of the...
Category: Articles
M.V. Futurity and Little Slam (1)
Collision A COLLISION IN DENSE FOG between MV Futurity and the motorboat Little Slam some three miles south east of Littlehampton was reported to the honorary secretary of Shoreham Harbour lifeboat station at 1510 on Saturday May 12, 1979....
Duke of Abercorn
The pas- senger steamer Duke of Abercorn, of Dublin, when returning from Bray Regatta on the evening of the 10th August stranded in a dense fog on the south-west corner of Dalkey Island.
The information of the accident was...
The Last of a Famous Life-Boat Crew
BY the death, on 20th May last, of Mr.
Charles Verrion, of Ramsgate, at the age of 85, passed away the last member of the famous Ramsgate Crew which carried out, just over fifty years ago, one of the most remarkable rescues...
Category: Obituaries
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Swimming cow saved Crew members at Douglas lifeboat station, Isle of Man, have received a certificate of commendation from the RSPCA following their rescue of a cow, which had got stuck in a rocky cove at the bottom of a...
Two Minutes
With huge numbers of visitors expected in the south west for the solar eclipse on 11 August the RNLI and the other emergency services had their contingency plans in place… Mike Floyd watched events unfold at the Coastguard MRCC at Falmouth...
Category: Articles
Susanna, of Portsmouth
JULY 16TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT. At 10.55 at night the coastguard reported flares near the South Shingles Buoy, and at 11.20 the motor life-boat Prudential was launched in a north-westerly breeze, with a moderate sea. She searched for some time,...
Amelia Lauro
MARCH 7TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At 9.45 P.M.
a message was received from the Gorleston coastguard that the South Knoll Light-vessel had reported a ship on fire two miles N.E.
of the...
Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the February, March and April Meetings of the Committee of Management
February Meeting.
Dunmore East, Co. Waterford.—On the llth December, 1932, the 4,920- ton steamer Pauline, of Panama, came to anchor in a very dangerous position in Tramore Bay. She was bound, light, from Glasgow to...
Category: Services
Fishing Cobles (2)
Filey, Yorkshire.—During the morning of the 2nd January, 1938, the local fishing cobles were caught at sea by bad weather. Some quickly came in, but others were several miles off, and the pulling and sailing life-boat Thomas Masterman Hardy...