LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Steamers Coniston Fell and Ribble
SWANSEA.—The Wolverkampton Lifeboat was launched at 9.35 P.M. on the 26th January to the assistance of two steamers, the Coniston Fell, of Liverpool, and the Ribble, of Whitehaven, which had been in collision about half a mile N.E. of...
The Austrian Brig Zorniza, of Lucine
About -9.30 P.M., on the 7th December, the St, Nicholas lightship was observed throwing .up rockets, and a light was seen as if from a vessel in distress on the Scroby Sands. The Yarmouth large life-boat was immediately launched, and...
The shark-baiting, tank-commanding granny!
She has already driven a tank and swum with sharks in aid of the RNLI this year – and now 77-year-old Jean Shields wants to drive a high-speed racing car. Jean, President of the RNLI’s Troon Fundraising Branch, raised almost £500 for...
Category: Articles
The Old Coxswain's Motto. (Verses for Recitation.)
IN MEMORIAM CAISTER LIFE-BOAT DISASTER (14th November, 1901).
"The Caister men never turn back." (As reported at the Inquest, 15th November.)(The old Coxswain speaks)— WHAT is this we have done ? Why, our duty,...
Category: Poetry
The Barges Ada and Charles Little
SOUTHEND, ESSEX.—A gale of wind having sprung up on the 2nd March, it was feared that the barge Ada, which had arrived from London with a load of granite, would be in need of help. She was lying about half a mile S.E. of the pier-head. The...
The Fifth International Life-Boat Conference
By COMMODORE THE DUKE OF MONTROSE, K.T., C.B., C.V.O., V.D., LL.D., R.N.V.R., Treasurer of the Royal National Life-boat Institution and Chairman of the Scottish Life-boat Council.
THIS has been a great event in the...
Category: Meetings
Award of the Gold Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
THE Gold Medal of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, which is only awarded in cases of exceptional gallantry, was granted by the Committee of Management on the 11th July, 1907, in the following circumstances:— On Sunday morning, the...
Category: Medals
The French Fishing Trawler Jesu Maria Joseph
About 5 A.M.
on the 20th April the coxswain of the Life-boat Charles Dibdin observed a vessel on the Goodwin Sands, and shortly afterwards the Gull Light-vessel commenced to signal for assistance to be sent. The crew of the...
The Seine-Net Fishing Boat Avondale
DOCTOR TAKEN TO FISHING BOAT Scarborough, Yorkshire. At 9.45 on the morning of the 12th June, 1962, the coastguard informed the coxswain that the seine-net fishing boat Avondale of Hartlepool, which was making for Scarborough, had a sick man...
Self-Righting Trials on the Prototype 14M Fab 4, Now the Trent Class,
Self-righting trials on the prototype 14m FAB 4, now the Trent class, with the side keels protecting the propellers clearly visible. The watertight integrity of the superstructure is vital to self-righting and the design must take into... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs