LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Cantick Head
About midnight on the 19th October a message was received from the coastguard that a vessel in the south bay was burning flares. A whole N.N.W. to N. gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea and snow. The motor life-boat Duke of Connaught put...
The Unseaworthy Ships' Commission
THE Royal Commission appointed at the instance of Mr. Plimsoll " to inquire into the alleged unseaworthiness of British registered ships," has issued a " pre- liminary" report. The report is signed by all the...
Category: Articles
Yla Section
THE Fastnet race—famous among yachtsmen the world over for its tough course of over 600 miles from Cowes to round the Fastnet rock off the south-west of Ireland—is contested only by strong and experienced crews. This year there were nearly...
Category: Articles
June (1)
CAMPBELTOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE. While returning to Carradale at 10.30 in the morning of the 1st of May, 1943, after discharging herrings at Campbeltown, the crew of the fishing boat Amy Harris were passed in Campbeltown Loch by a flying boat...
Category: Services
Our Life-Boat Crews and Property Salvage Services
A CONTROVERSY has apparently arisen of late between the Life-boat Institution and Lloyd's on the subject of Property Salvage Services performed by Life-boat Crews, and it would seem, judging from para- graphs which have appeared in the...
Category: Articles
People and Places
Some old photos can lead charmed lives - and these were some of the lucky ones which survived by pure chance, or rather by a chain of coincidences.
How did they arrive here? Well: if you treat your dustbin men nicely they...
Category: Articles
PIER FISHERMAN SWEPT TO SEA
HARTLEPOOL | 21 MARCH
Washed 20m out to sea and battered by a heavy swell, one angler owes his life to RNLI volunteers who were on exercise nearby. Hartlepool’s Atlantic 85 inshore lifeboat...
Category: Articles
Royal National Life-Boat Institution. Life-Boat Regulations
THE following Regulations are intended for the guidance of the Local Committee to be formed at each place at which a Life-boat is stationed by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and to whose care and control the Life-boat, her Crew, and...
Category: Articles
NORTHERN EXPOSURE
What's it like to volunteer at our most northerly station, Aith, on the Shetland Islands? On 20 June, Photographer Jack Lowe of the Lifeboat Station Project made the most of the midsummer light, while the crew spoke about life at 60°...
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The Tougue Lightvessel, the Princes Light Ship and The Fusiler
THE following is the Coxswain's report of the important services rendered on the night of 3rd Dec. last, by the Ramsgate life-boat, to the passengers of the emigrant ship Fusi- lier, of London; and to the crew of the ship Denierara, of...