LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Kathleen, of Hartlepool
About 7 o'clock on the evening of the 9th October, two guns were fired and rockets thrown up from the Cockle Float- ing light. The night was dark and rainy, with a strong wind and a heavy sea on the beach. The Caister life-boat was...
The Converted Ship's Boat Permit
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 1.0 in the afternoon on the 7th of August, 1951, the Formby coastguard reported that a cutter rigged yacht was off Formby Point. Twenty minutes later he said conditions were bad and her sails had been damaged. At 1...
Adur II, of Liverpool
AUGUST 10TH. - CLOVELLY, AND APPLEDORE, DEVON. At three in the afternoon the Hartland Point coastguard telephoned to the Clovelly life-boat station that a small tug had foundered a mile northwest of the point. A moderate north-west breeze...
Omnibus, of Aberystwith
On the 26th March, 1860, a schooner was reported to be on shore on the Goodwin Sands. The Harbour Commis- sioners' life-boat Northumberland was quickly towed out to her assistance by the Harbour- tug Aid, there being a fresh wind from...
Castledown, of Belfast
On the 15th October, during a strong westerly breeze, the lugger Castletown, of Belfast, in working out of Howth Harbour, struck on a rock near Ireland's Eve. The tide being at the time just on the turn, her position became very perilous...
Life-Boat Crews and Income Tax
Mr. John Nott, M.P. for St. Ives, has received a letter from the Financial Secretary to the Treasury, Mr. Harold Lever, stating that the service rewards made to members of life-boats crews will continue to be subject to income...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Fridtjof Nansen
Barra Island, Hebrides. At 4.30 on the afternoon of the 5th of January, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that there was a sick seaman on board the S.S. Fridtjof Nansen, of Kristiansand, Norway. The Norwegian steamer...
When the Cross Channel Hovercraft Princess Margaret
When the cross channel hovercraft Princess Margaret collided with the harbour arm at Dover in bad weather on the afternoon of March 30,1985, the relief Arun class lifeboat, A. J. R. and L. G.
Uridge, on temporary duty at... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Eye for Detail In Lifeboat Design
LOOKING AT a lifeboat when housed, perhaps the first design detail to catch the eye is the propeller and its tunnel.
Each of the twin propellers is housed in a tunnel built into the stern, the principal aims being shallow...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Fermain
St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—At 4.50 on the afternoon of the 29th of December, 1952, the master of the S.S. Fermain, of Guernsey, which had fourteen persons on board, wirelessed that his ship had struck a rock and had been badly holed about...