LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Ketch-Rigged Yacht Totland
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At 8.52 on the evening of the 2nd of September, 1953, the Walton coastguard reported that he had been informed by the master of the Cork lightvessel that the ketch-rigged yacht Totland was drift- ing slowly about...
Boy David
Lytham-St. Anne's, Lancashire and New Brighton, Cheshire - At 7.44 p.m. on 2nd December, 1968, it was learnt that the shrimp boat Boy David with two men on board was overdue at Southport. After further enquiries had been made the...
Ems Ore, of Monrov
Penlee, Cornwall - At 7 a.m. on ist October, 1966, the captain of the motor vessel Ems Ore, of Monrovia, asked for police and medical help. At 9.45 the life-boat Solomon Browne launched in a fresh north westerly breeze and slight sea. The...
The Hull Form of the Arun Class Is Shown Clearly In This Self-Righting Trial
The hull form of the Arun class is shown clearly in this self-righting trial. Note the flat sections aft to promote planing and the small tunnels to allow larger propellers.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Flora, of Poole
The small surf Life-boat on this station, the Duff, went off on the 16th January, 1871, to the brig Flora, of Poole, which had parted her anchors and gone on the beach during a strong gale from the South. Proceeding through a heavy surf to...
Boy David (1)
Lytham-St. Anne's, Lancashire and New Brighton, Cheshire - At 7.44 p.m. on 2nd December, 1968, it was learnt that the shrimp boat Boy David with two men on board was overdue at Southport. After further enquiries had been made the...
Mrs Frances Seaton Names the New Relief Fleet D Class Inflatable 41 Club III at a Ceremony In the Rnli's Poole Depot
Mrs Frances Seaton names the new relief fleet D class inflatable 41 Club I/I at a ceremony in the RNLI's Poole depot. The lifeboat was funded by the Association of Ex-Tablers Clubs.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Widow of a Bowman
THE bowman of the Walmer life-boat, James Rich, collapsed and died in the life-boat when she went out, on the 24th of December 1950, to the help of the Italian motor vessel Santagata, and rescued her crew of thirty-two. An account of the...
Category: Obituaries
"The Spirit of Adventure"
ONE of the principal speakers at the dinner of the Outward Bound Trust held at the Savoy Hotel, London, on the 28th of April was Coxswain Sidney Page, of Southend. The speakers were introduced by Mr. Wynford Vaughan Thomas, who paid "a...
Category: Articles
Pandema, of Plymouth, and Besty, of Brixham
On the night of 18th March the brigantine Pandema, of Ply- mouth, bound from Cardiff to London with railway iron, struck on the Doomedbar Sands off Padstow during a strong northerly gale and heavy sea. The life-boat at Padstow was at once...