LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Boat
Disaster averted at Whitby When two lifeboatmen at Whitby station spotted a small boat heading seawards one afternoon in January 2003, they knew the crew of three were putting their lives at riskHelmsman John Pearson and Mechanic Glenn...
Stand-off in the storm
When a fishing crew drifted close to a rocky coastline, powerless against vicious wind and waves, all their hopes lay with a helicopter crew and lifeboat volunteers
‘With the weather like it...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat House
The boats of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION and all belonging to them are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, tinder the general superintendence of local honorary committees...
Category: Articles
The Wreck of the "Indian Chief," 5th January, 1881. The Aldeburgh Life-Boat's Journey of 120 Miles.
IT is just fifty years since the barque Indian Chief, outward bound from Middlesbrough to Yokohama, was wrecked on the Long Sand, off the mouth of the Thames, and the twelve survivors of her crew of twenty-nine men were rescued by the...
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Awards to Honorary Workers
Thanks of Institution on Vellum The thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum have been accorded to the following honorary secretaries of life-boat stations on their retirement: MR. CHARLES H. ASH, Appledore.
CAPTAIN...
Category: Awards
Penlee Formal Investigation
The findings of the Formal Investigation ordered by the Department of Trade into the loss on December 19, 1981, of the coaster Union Star with her eight people and of Penlee lifeboat Solomon Browne with her crew of eight lifeboatmen. THE...
Category: Articles
The West German Tug Fairplay X ,and Netherlands Coaster Orca
German tug, Dutch coaster ON THE AFTERNOON of Tuesday January 3, 1984, the West German tug Fairplay X fouled her propeller in St Ives Bay while trying to pass a towline to the Netherlands coaster Orca; the coaster, her engine disabled, had...
Additional Life-Boat Stations
DURING the last few months several addi- tional life-boat stations have been formed along our coasts, and some old boats replaced by others on an improved construction.
This is an important work, which we hope to see...
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Launches
BARROW ABERDEEN ON-1248(17-24):MayS.16Jun 12.
Jul 11,20{ i2) D-536:May5,13.16Jun 12.25,29, Jul 2.9.11.20(x2) ABERDOVEY B-758:MayB.10,Jul 18(x2),21,31 ABERSOCH B-TOftMay 13Jun 1.19.2427, Jul17(x2).24 ABERYSTWYTH B-70*May...
Category: Services
Launches
Aberdeen ON-1248:Jun27.Jul2 D-536 Junl. Jul2. JulB, Julie Abersoch B-582:Jun24.Jul20,Jul25.Jul28.
Jul3t{x2) Aberystwyth B-704 Jun18.Jun20.Jun2l.Jul1, Jul5. Jul7. Jul22. Ju126, Jul27.
Jul2g Jul30 Achill...
Category: Services