LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Silver Pearl, of Ayr
JUNE 2 7TH. - PORTPATRICK, WIGTOWNSHIRE.
At 11.30 at night the coastguard reported a vessel, apparently at anchor, to the south of Portpatrick. The naval authorities asked the life-boat to go out and investigate. A strong...
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Category: Articles
The Motor Fishing Vessels Pilot Me and Gem
DECEMBER 4TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
At five in the morning the local motor fishing vessels Pilot Me and Gem put to sea in bad weather. During the morning the weather worsened and at one o’clock the coastguard reported that a...
Radar Was First Installed In a Lifeboat 1963 the Boat Being Stationed at Yarmouth In the Isle of Wight. the Cost of the Set Was Largely Paid for By a Fund Started By Admir
'Radar was first installed in a lifeboat in 1963, the boat being stationed at Yarmouth in the Isle of Wight. The cost of the set was largely paid for by a fund started by admirers of Joseph Conrad as a memorial to the great writer'... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
1975: Silver Medallists Coxswain Ben Tart of Dungeness (I) and Coxswain Albert Bird of Aberdeen Meet After Nearly 20 Years
. . . 7975: silver medallists Coxswain Ben Tart of Dungeness (I.) and Coxswain Albert Bird of Aberdeen meet after nearly 20 years . . .. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lifeboat Services (From Page 47)
(from page 47) east, near gale force 7, the sea moderate; visibility was good.
The honorary medical adviser could not embark as he was already at an emergency, but the injured man had been tended by a member of La Quintals...
Category: Services
United States Life-Saving Service
AT the close of year ended the 30th June, 1908, there wore 280 stations in the United States Life-Saving Service this number being two in excess of the total for the preceding year. The stations were subdivided as before into thirteen...
Category: Articles
The Steamer Ypapanti Aground on a Bank Near the Sunk Lightvessel on 17th November 1966
The steamer Ypapanti aground on a bank near the Sunk lightvessel on 17th November 1966. Coxswain Frank Bloom, of the Walton life-boat, was awarded a bronze medal for gallantry for the rescue of 11 men from her.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Use of Oil to Reduce Breaking Seas
IN 1914 supplies of oil were issued to eight Stations with a view to finding out the best way of using it to reduce breaking seas, and in 1920, as a result of these experiments, all Stations were supplied with canvas bags, pierced with holes...
Category: Articles
Achilles
Three saved from disabled fishing vessel in gale and severe seasLerwick lifeboat left her moorings at 0500 on Friday 4 November 1994, a little over ten minutes after first hearing from Shetland coastguard that the fishing vessel Achilles had...