LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Notes on the Quarter
TWENTY-ONE nations were represented at the llth international life-boat conference, which was held in New York City from 16th to 20th May, newcomers to the conference being the Bahamas, the Philippines, and South...
Category: Articles
Prepare for the Worst
LAST YEAR'S capsize of the roll-on roll-off ferry Herald of Free Enterprise close to Zeebrugge Harbour entrance, brought sharply into focus the need for emergency services on land and at sea to be alert and ready to cope with the myriad...
Category: Articles
Race for Man and Boy(Services)
A 15 year old youth ran up to a group of fishermen by the harbour at Dunbar, East Lothian, and told them that his brother had been washed off the rocks at the harbour entrance.
Coxswain Robert Brunton, who was present with...
Category: Services
The Coningbeg Lightship
Kllmore, Co. Wexford.—At ten o'clock on the night of the 14th of June, 1952, the Commissioners of Irish Lights asked if the life-boat would take a relief to the Coningbeg Light- ship next day and bring ashore a man whose father had died....
The Screw Flat Victoria
The screw flat Victoria, of Liverpool, bound from Pen- maenmawr to Birkenhead with a cargo of macadam, became unmanageable in the Rock Channel on the 12th March, in consequence of a mishap to the steering gear and the bursting of the...
The Afternoon Ended With Tea In the Foyer: the Duke of Kent President With Commander Ralph Swann Chairman Talks With Bronze Medallists Trevor Fryer and Frederick
The afternoon ended with tea in the foyer: The Duke of Kent, President, with Commander Ralph Swann, Chairman, talks with bronze medallists Trevor Fryer and Frederick Arkley ofTynemouth.
Photograph by courtesy of Peter... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Auxiliary Drifter Industry
APRIL 13TH. - BERWICK - ON - TWEED, NORTHUMBERLAND. At 3.23 in the afternoon the coastguard telephoned that a fishing vessel, under sail, was a quarter of a mile east of Berwick pier. She was trying to enter the harbour, but was unable to do...
The Fishwives of Cullercoats
THE fishwives of Cullercoats carried out their eighth consecutive collection on behalf of the Institution on 3rd August, when the Cullercoats Life-boat held its quarterly road exercise and launch.
As in previous years, they...
Category: Donations
The Inshore Rescue Boat
Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 3.25 p.m. on 29th April, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the inshore rescue boat recently placed at the station appeared to be in difficulties off the West Princess buoy while out on...
Mick the Miller
At 3.39 a.m. on 7th June, 1967 it was learned that red flares had been sighted two or three miles south south east of Bembridge. The life-boat Jesse Lumb waslaunched at 3.50 in a slight westerly breeze and a smooth sea. The tide was ebbing....