LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
the Kathleen, Clarice, Pen Cw and Westmark
Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire.—About 9.15 on the morning of the 29th of July, 1956, the coastguard reported that he had received warning of a full south- westerly gale, and at 9.45 he stated that several fishing boats were at...
Conquistador
U.S. AND SPANISH VESSELS IN COLLISION Hastings, Sussex. At 8.30 on the evening of the 27th March, 1963, a local resident informed the honorary secretary that he had seen a red flare southeast of Hastings. The life-boat...
Report from the Select Committee of the House of Commons on the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
The first four pages of the Report give an historical sketch of the Institution, and describe its object, composition and management, after which it continues as follows:— COMPLAINTS AGAINST THE INSTITUTION.
During the...
Category: Articles
The Timber Ship Fred Everard
Cargo shifted ON PASSAGE bound from Archangel to the Mediterranean, timber ship Fred Everard developed a list when her deck cargo shifted and, at 0143 on Monday, September 26, sent out an urgency signal PAN. Her position was 61°...
The Life-Belt Used By the Crews of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
The requisite qualities of a life-boatman's life-belt are— 1. Sufficient extra buoyancy (maximum 28 Ibs., minimum 25 Ibs.) to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support...
Category: Articles
Scene Off Torquay on 7Th December, 1959,
Scene off Torquay on 7th December, 1959, when bad weather compelled a tug to keep three barges under tow in order to hold them off the lee shore.
Two of the barges appear close together—the third one, far right, which was... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Sailor's Views on the R.N.L.I.
Cold, wet and darkness form a classic environment for fear, and if this trio is mixed with the other fierce ingredients of a sea driven to fury by a winter storm hurling its strength against an unyielding tidal stream, it would take a truly...
Category: Articles
Award to the Women Launchers of Dungeness
ON the 8th of October a whole gale was blowing at Dungeness, Kent, from South by East, a very heavy sea was running and it was raining very heavily.
A London barge, the Shamrock, bound with a cargo to the Isle of Wight,...
Category: Awards
The Late Mr. Charles Clifford
THE gentle CHARLES CLIFFORD, who, after years of severe suffering, passed away a short time since, deserves a few words in service on occasions when life-boats unassisted | the great value of his invention for Lowering " 'The...
Category: Obituaries
Mass capsize in the lough
PORTAFERRY/NEWCASTLE | 11 AUGUST
Portaferry and Newcastle RNLI crews were part of a multi-service response to a large-scale rescue on Strangford Lough, Co Down. Eighty-eight boats were taking part in a...
Category: Articles