LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Eastern Division Atlantic 21 escort IN HIS CAPACITY as harbour master, Helmsman Roger Trigg of Southwold lifeboat station heard at 1625 on Friday January 16 that MFV Concord, a 35ft 6in ex-Liverpool class lifeboat, had broken down...

CAISTER, NORFOLK,—About 9 o'clock on the evening of Sunday, the 1st October last, during a strong easterly breeze, a brig struck on the Barber Sands, the sea immediately breaking over her. This being observed from the shore, the Caister...

New Brighton, Cheshire - At noon on 28th September, 1969, it was learnt that a dinghy was in difficulties off the Derby bathing pool. The lifeboat Norman B. Corlett slipped her moorings at 12.13 in a near gale force westerly wind with a...

A box of Arbroath smokeys for HRH The Duke of Kent, president of the Institution, from Coxswain Douglas Matthewson. It is at Arbroath that the 37ft 6in Rother lifeboat RNLB Shoreline is stationed.. - View image in PDF

ON the 6th of December last, the E. Z., of New York, fell in with the British vessel John Garrow, when in the act of sinking.

The master, his wife, child, and twenty-six members of the crew, were safely taken off at great...

History is repeated as HRH The Duke of Kent helps launch the Sennen Cove lifeboat The Four Boys from her position at the top of the slipway.. - View image in PDF

Margate, Kent.—17th June, 1939. A rowing boat was overdue and believed to be in difficulties, but later a report was received that the boat had been found and was safe. Mr. P. E. W.

Gellatly, the honorary secretary, went...

Mr. J. R. Barnett, O.B.E., M.I.N.A., was for many years Consulting Naval Architect to the Institution. He died at his home in Glasgow on 13th January, 1965, shortly after reaching his looth birthday. When the first experiments with motor...