LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The New York Life-Saving Benevolent Association
IT can scarcely fail to be interesting to such of our readers as take an interest in the subject of saving lives from shipwreck to know what is being done in furtherance of that humane object in other countries than our own. To learn how far...
Category: Articles
Fame
APPLEDORE.—On the 2nd March a message by telephone was received stating that a, vessel was stranded on Baggy Leap. A moderate breeze was then blowing from N.N.E., the sea was smooth and the weather fine and cold.
At about...
H.M. Motor Launch No.111
NOVEMBER 25TH . - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE. At about 8.45 A.M. a loudexplosion was heard in the direction of the Chequer Shoal Buoy. A moderate S.W. breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea. The naval authorities reported that H.M. motor launch...
Royal Silver Jubilee, 1910-1935
IN 1935 the Institution received a gift of £3,000 from Mrs. E. W. Montford, J.P., of Market Drayton, Shropshire, who is patron of the Stoke-on-Trent Ladies' Life-boat Guild, to provide a motor life-boat as a thank-offering for the...
Category: Donations
The Converted Ship's Life-Boat Bluebird II
Humber, Yorkshire - At 4.8 a.m.
on 16th February, 1970, the coastguard reported that red flares hadbeen sighted in the Haile Sand Fort area. The life-boat City of Bradford HI was launched at 4.21 in a fresh north westerly...
The Fire Brigade Help on Life-Boat Day at Newcastle-On-Tyne
The Fire Brigade Help On Life-Boat Day at Newcastle-On-Tyne. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The No. 2 Pilot Boat
Holyhead, and Moelfre, Anglesey. At 8.20 on the evening of the 23rd of August, 1959, the coastguard informed the assistant honorary secretary at Holyhead that the no. 2 pilot boat, which had gone to the Skerries Rock with fifteen children...
The Minesweeper Erimo
FEBRUARY 22ND. - THE MUMBLES, GLAMORGANSHIRE. At 11.18 A.M. information was received from the coastguard that the minesweeper Erimo had struck a mine about one and a half miles off the Mumbles, and was flying distress signals. A fresh S.E....
Resolutions Passed at the Annual General Meeting for 1908
THE RIGHT HON. LORD BALFOUR OF BURLEIGH, K.T., P.O., IN THE CHAIR.
Moved by The Chairman.
Seconded by ADMIRAL CHATFIELD, C.B.
1. That the Annual Report be adopted, printed, and...
Category: Meetings
"God Help the Poor Fellows at Sea!"
FAR away inland, when tempests blow Wild through the dark'ning night, We list to the roar of the winds as they go, On their hurricane steeds to the fight; For the hosts of the Storm King are gathering fast Where the white-crested waters...
Category: Poetry