LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Helwick Lightvessel
Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 6.40 on the evening of the 21st of August, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Trinity House depot had asked for the life-boat to be launched to take a sick man off the Helwick light- vessel...
The S.S. Suevic (3)
THE LIZARD, CADGWITH, COVERACK, and PORTHLEVEN, CORNWALL.—A disas- ter of such magnitude as seldom occurs on the coast of the United Kingdom took place off Cornwall on the night of the 17th March. Thanks to the prompt action of the...
What They Achieved
Desperately needed medical relief was brought to 10,000 people in villages marooned by floodwater, thanks to the RNLI's Mozambique rescue mission.
Crews ferried a doctor and logistician from the French medical agency... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Rescued When Clinging to the Mast
AT 6.20 on the morning of the 7th August, 1962, Mr. A. J. Tart, the honor- ary secretary of the Dungeness station, was told by Lade coastguard that the German vessel Erfurt had reported seeing a small boat showing a red light about ten and a...
Category: Services
The S.S. Lake Nepigon
WICKLOW, IRELAND.—A ship's life-boat full of people came ashore 'at 9 A.M. on the 1st September. The officer in charge of her reported that she was from the s.s. Lake Nepigon, of Montreal, which had stranded on Arklow Bank, and that...
The Republic of Ireland Launched Its ' Year of the Lifeboat' Celebrations on October 16 1973 With a Reception at Which Ireland's Target for the Year Was Announced: £10
The Republic of Ireland launched its ' Year of the Lifeboat' celebrations on October 16, 1973, with a reception at which Ireland's target for the year was announced: £100,000 above normal revenue to offset cost of new 44'... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Humber Lightvessel (1)
NOVEMBER 16TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE. At 11.30 in the morning the Mablethorpe coastguard asked the life-boat to put out to the Humber Lightvessel and take an injured man from it to Grimsby. A moderate north-north-east breeze was...
The Airliner Cloud of lona
St. Peter Port, Guernsey, and St.
Helier, Jersey.—31st July. The air liner Cloud of lona had been reported .overdue, and the motor life-boat Queen Victoria put out and searched all night without success. Shortly after noon...
Notes on Building a Life-Boat
IN the last number of the LIFE-BOAT JOURNAL an account was given of the steps taken to select a new Life-boat, and it may now be of interest to give a few notes as to the way she is built.
For many years, indeed since 1899,...
Category: Articles
An Aeroplane (36)
MARCH 1 9TH. - PADSTOW, CORNWALL.
An aeroplane had come down in the sea, but the pilot was rescued by a fishing boat. - Rewards, £6 4s.
(See Port Isaac, “ Services by Shore-boats,” page 95.).