LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Real-life trial
A brand new, state-of-the-art lifeboat arrived at Appledore station at the end of March but she was saving lives weeks before while on trials off the south Devon coast.
During sea trials, in force 6–7 winds, a mayday call...
Category: Articles
Mr. William Potter, Late Assistant Surveyor of Life-Boats
Mr. William Potter, at one time Assistant Surveyor of Life-boats, died on 4th May last, at the age of ninety- four. The son of a dockyard shipwright, he was born in 1831, was apprenticed as a shipwright at Woolwich. Dockyard, and was later...
Category: Obituaries
Inaugural Ceremonies, England
H.R.H. The Prince George, K.G., at Newhaven. H.R.H. The Princess Mary, Countess of Harewood, at Scarborough and Bridling ton.
EIGHTEEN Inaugural Ceremonies of new Motor Life-boats have been held during the five months...
Category: Inaugurations
Mirror Image
Crewman steers yacht to place of safetyThere is no such thing as a routine job for lifeboat crews. When the Campbeltown lifeboat was called out on 1 October 2000, it was simply to escort a troubled yacht to the safety of Carnpbeltown Loch....
The Centenary: In the South-East of England
BEDFORDSHIRE.
Hitchin held a Centenary Meeting, which was addressed by Major Sir | Maurice Cameron, K.C.M.G., a member of the Committee of Management.
Bedford held a successful Century Life-boat Day in...
Category: Articles
(Below), Built In the Same Simple and Rugged Style to Suit the Surroundings on The
Then and now... When a new inshore lifeboat station was needed at Flamborough's South Landing the old disused boathouse (right) was demolished to make way for the new (below), built in the same simple and rugged style to suit the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Jersey City
A telephone message was received from the Coastguard at 1.53 P.M. on the 6th January that the s.s. Jersey City, of Bideford, had broken down and was in distress ten miles off the Bishop Rock.
Preparations to launch the...
Armana
The trawler Armana, of Fleetwood, was going out to the fishing grounds on the llth January, when she ran aground .on a submerged rock. The weather was fine and there was no wind, but the motor life-boat Lloyd's was launched at 1.45 P.M.,...
The S.S. Antonio
The Life-boat John was launched at 4.40 A.M. on the 14th February, and rescued the crew of twenty-four of the s.s. Antonio, of Bilbao. The vessel had stranded on the North Rock and, when the Life- boat reached her, it was hoped that it would...
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Arbroath, Angus.—At 7.22 on the night of the 17th of February, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that two girls were marooned on a rock east of Auchmithie, about four miles north of Arbroath, and at 7.33 the life-boat Robert Lindsay was...