LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
For Some Time It Has Been the Practice of Apprentice Training Schools to Build
For some time it has been the practice of apprentice training schools to build clinker boarding boats for the Institution to an RNLI design. It is a practice of mutual benefit because clinker is the most skilled form of boat building, and so... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Steamers R. J. Cullen, Empire Homer, Ingrid, and Eugenie S. Embiricos
JANUARY 16TH - 26TH. - BARRA ISLAND, HEBRIDES. At nine in the evening of the 15th the Kyle coastguard telephoned that a vessel was ashore two miles N.W. by W. of Barra Head, and the life-boat crew were assembled. Shortly afterwards another...
Mrs Catherine Patterson Vice-President of Anstruther Ladies' Guild and Coxswain Peter Murray Handover a Cheque for £4700 to Lord Cough of the Scottish Executive Council the Money Was Rai
Mrs Catherine Patterson, vice-president of Anstruther ladies' guild, and Coxswain Peter Murray handover a cheque for £4,700 to Lord Cough of the Scottish Executive Council. The money was raised at Anstruther's gala day when a... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Boy
JUNE 21ST. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At 4.45 P.M. a message was received that a Peterhead motor boat, the Boy, with two on board, had not returned, and the motor life-boat Julia Park Barry of Glasgow was launched at 5...
April (1)
APRIL MEETING SCOURIE, SUTHERLAND. On the afternoon of the 26th February, 1941, a motor boat, with a crew of four, went out line-fishing near Handa Island. On the following morning the boat had not returned, and enquiries were made, without...
Category: Services
The Sailing Catamaran Santa Maria
Walmer, Kent. At 3.15 on the after- noon of the 25th of April, 1959, the coxswain was informed that a catamaran with three people on board had capsized. He saw the casualty about four hundred yards off the life-boat house, and at 3.30 the...
Result, of Guernsey
BERWICK-ON-TWEED.—On the afternoon of the 1st January, when a strong gale from the N.E. and a fresh in the river had set up an unusually heavy sea on the bar of the Tweed, the barque Result, of Guernsey, which was bound from Sombrero to...
RNLI Exhibition at Southend's New Library
At the kind invitation of Leslie Helliwell, chief librarian of Southendon- Sea, the local RNLI branch arranged a most successful '150 years of lifeboat history' exhibition in the borough's magnificent new central library. It was...
Category: Articles
Mary of Hull
On the 21st November, the smack Mary, of Hull, was stranded during hazy weather, about a mile and a quarter south of Withernsea. The crew of 5 men of the distressed vessel were anxious for the aid of the life-boat, as they felt they were in...
B.P. Marketer
Kirkcudbright.—At nine o'clock on the morning of the 28th of December, 1956, a local resident informed the life-boat station that the tanker B.P.
Marketer was in trouble in very bad weather in Dhoon Bay. At 9.52 the...