LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S.Pandora and the S.S. Gripfast (1)
Tessmouth, Whitby, and Runswick, Yorkshire. — In the morning of the 22nd of October, 1951, the S.S.Pandora, of Beaumaris, foundered in a gale and a very heavy sea one and a half miles off Runswick, with the loss of her crew of six. The...
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Baby alerts lifeboat - twice!Most people have their first taste of a lifeboat a little later in life than tiny Francesa Richey, who found herself aboard Oban's Brede Nottinghamshire when only a few hours old - having already put her on...
Sennen Cove
Sennen Cove's 37ft 6in Rather class lifeboat, Diana White, searches off Land's End after four schoolboys were swept from the cliffs on May 6, 1985. photograph by courtesy of Daily Mail. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Rescue Cruisers from Scandinavia: Sigurd Golje of Sweden (Left) and R S Platou of Norway Both Are Designed to Accompany Their Fishing Fleets to Sea
Rescue cruisers from Scandinavia: Sigurd Golje of Sweden (left) and R. S. - View image in PDF
Platou of Norway. Both are designed to accompany their fishing fleets to sea.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
December
Launches 49 Lives rescued 252
DECEMBER 2ND. - MOELFRE, ANGLESEY.
During the morning a wireless message was received at Holyhead, and telephoned to Moelfre, asking for a life-boat to take a badly-injured...
Category: Services
Letters
Beeching's medal At the Great Exhibition of 1851, one James Beeching was awarded the prize bronze medal for a self righting lifeboat.
It is thought this boat was the best if not the first self righting lifeboat to be...
Category: Correspondence
Brighton Naming
Radio and television commentator Brian Johnston and his wife visited Brighton to name the local inshore life-boat the St. Marylebone Dolphin. Mrs. Johnston is chairman of the St.
Marylebone life-boat branch which raised the...
Category: Inaugurations
Members of the Watchstanding Crew at Work In the U.S. Coast Guard's Automated Merchant Vessel Report (Amver) Centre on Governors Island, New York. the Man on the Left Evaluates Voyage
Members of the watchstanding crew at work in the U.S. Coast Guard's automated merchant vessel report (AMVER) centre on Governors Island, New York. The man on the left evaluates voyage information received over the teleprinter, while the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Weather Charts and Storm Warnings
"STORM -warnings may be considered as the most immediate practical application of weather knowledge." Mr. EGBERT H. SCOTT, Director of the Meteorological Department, so commences the eighth chapter of the admirable work to which he...
Category: Charts
Classified Advertisements
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Category: Advertisement