LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fishing Boats including The North Star
MARCH 1ST. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
The fishing fleet was out in bad weather, with strong squalls from the north, snow showers and a rough sea, and at 11.30 in the morning, as four boats had not returned, it was decided to...
Emanuel Boucher, of Whitby
On the morning of the 6th January, during a terri- fic gale of wind from the S.E., the Ponte- fract and Goole life-boat went off through a very heavy sea, in reply to signals of dis- tress, and rescued the crew of 6 men from the brig Emanuel...
Congregation Gathered Round Model of Lifeboat Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse After the Service of Thanksgiving at Mutley Baptist Church Plymouth Photograph B
Congregation gathered round model of lifeboat Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse after the service of thanksgiving at Mutley Baptist Church, Plymouth. Photograph by courtesy of 'Western Morning News'. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Whitby Museum In the Old Lifeboat House: at the Souvenir Stand Are (l) Eric Thomson Founder of the Museum and His Main Helper Ex- Motor Mechanic William Drvden
Whitby museum, in the old lifeboat house: At the souvenir stand are (/.) Eric Thomson, founder of the museum, and his main lie/per, e. Motor Mechanic William Drvden.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Northumbrian Coast and the Egyptian Prince
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 5.3 on the afternoon of the 4th of March, 1953, the coastguard reported that two vessels had been in collision near Lower Hope Buoy and that one was beginning to sink. The life-boat Greater London, Civil Service No...
Profiles of Lifeboats in the RNLI Fleet
52ft and 54ft Arun Profiles of Lifeboats in the RNLI Fleet 16ft D class and 17ft Gin C class inflatable Atlantic 21 a£W- ~ x - -* 50ft Thames 33ft Brede 48ft 6in Solent 37ft Oakley 48ft 6in Oakley 37ft 6in Pother 47ft Tyne 44ft...
Category: Articles
Happy Harry, of Dublin
SEPTEMBER 29TH. - YOUGHAL, CO. CORK, AND HELVICK HEAD, CO. WATERFORD. At four in the afternoon the Ardmore civic guards reported that a schooner, travelling west under sail, seemed to be on fire aft. A strong south-east wind was blowing,...
OUT OF REACH
A father swam out to stop his daughter drifting away in an inflatable dinghy, but couldn’t reach her. Thankfully, there were willing RNLI volunteers who could
On Saturday 30 June 2018, Blackpool Crew Members Iain...
Category: Articles
Two Motor Patrol Boats No. 1091, and No. 1086
AUGUST 23RD. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
About six o’clock in the evening the coastguard reported a small motor vessel aground at the mouth of the River Ugie, two miles north of Peterhead, with a fishing boat standing by....
The Tyne (Right) and Mersey
self-righting calculations. This is one reason why the Arun and FAB 3 (left) have a proportionally greater superstructure volume than the smaller classes of lifeboat such as the Tyne (right) and Mersey - whose deck is low enough to recover... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs