LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Orleans and Jan Van Toon
Tanker ablaze NEWS OF A COLLISION between the 76,000-tonne Greek tanker Orleans and a 295-tonne Dutch fishing vessel, Jan Van Toon, reached Cromer lifeboat station at 0815 on the morning of Friday January 24, 1986. The tanker, about 65 miles...
Charlotte Ellen and Lorna
Nov. 19TH. - CLACTON -ON - SEA, ESSEX. About 3.30 in the morning the coastguard reported to the Clacton - On - Sea life-boat station that they had seen red Very lights to the southsouth- west, four miles from their look-out. At four o’clock...
Ferry Saint Malo
Two lifeboats on service as high speed passenger ferry runs on to rocksBoth of Jersey's lifeboats, St Heller's Tyne class Alexander Coutanche and St Catherine's Atlantic rigid inflatable Jessie Eliza, were involved in a service...
Two Rescues By Shore-Boats
San day, Orkney Islands, and Smerwick, Co. Kerry.
ABOUT ten at night on 24th June, 1924, a small boat, with three men on board, was capsized in a sudden and heavy squall in Otterswick Bay, at Sanday, in the Orkney Islands....
Category: Services
A HAT-TRICK RESCUE
Struggling in the cold, dark sea, three football fans wondered if it was game over
After a night out in Barmouth watching Wales play in a televised football match on 6 July 2016, three sailors rowed a small dinghy...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Canada
Nov. 3RD. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
During the afternoon the S.S. Canada, of Copenhagen, bound for Hull, was badly holed by enemy action when twenty miles north-east of the Humber, and one of her holds filled with water....
Methods of Launching Life-Boats
Chief Inspector of Life-boats (This paper was read at the 7th International Life-boat Conference held in Lisbon in June, 1955.) Ix Great Britain and Ireland the verv varying nature of the shore creates many problems, and the methods of...
Category: Articles
First Gold Medal for Ten Years
FOR the first time for ten years and for only the second time since the end of the last war the Institution's highest award for gallantry, the gold medal, has been conferred. The medal was awarded to Coxswain Richard Evans of Moelfre,...
Category: Services
My Susanne
FISHING BOAT SAVED FROM ROCKY GRAVE At 4.12 a.m. on 24th January, 1972, the Flamborough coastguard told Mr. Arthur Dick, the honorary secretary, Bridllngton, that the m.f.v. My Susanne was sending out radio messages requesting life-boat...
A Sailing Dinghy
Four rescued ON THURSDAY April 8, the honorary secretary of St Ives lifeboat station was down at the boathouse in the late afternoon when, at 1628, he saw a 16ft sailing dinghy leave harbour with two young men and two youths on...