LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Galleon & Oscar Gorthon
The s.s. Castle Galleon, of Newcastle, while bound for Dieppe from Blyth laden with coal, came into collision with the Swedish steamer Oscar Gorthon during a dense fog at 9.20 on the morning of 2nd June, about three miles S.S.W. of the Cross...
A British Aeroplane (3)
JUNE 9TH. - FILEY, YORKSHIRE. At 3.3 P.M. the coastguard reported that a British aeroplane had crashed into the sea off Reighton Gap, and at 3.20 P.M. the motor life-boat The Cuttle was launched. The weather was foggy, with a light easterly...
Going for cold
Vancouver’s icy slopes are a long way from the Isle of Man but a world-class snowboarder won’t forget home when she competes at the Winter Olympics
Zoe Gillings is full of anticipation as she waits for the start gate to...
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Aglae
CAISTER AND WINTERTON, NORFOLK.— At 10 P.M. on the 1st June, a vessel was seen to get on the Middle Cross Sand and make signals of distress. The Caister No. 1 Life-boat Govent Garden was at once launched and proceeded to the...
Inventor's Description
THE above engraving shows the interior, and persons occupying starboard side of boat. It is entirely covered in from stern to stern, having a raised hatchway, with light, and is propelled by a screw turned by hand, the locomotion and...
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Storjohann
ST. DAVID'S, PEMBROKESHIRE.—A vessel was seen in distress at the south end of Eamsey Island, at 8 A.M. on the 18th December. The Augusta Life-boat put off to her, and pulled across the sound through a heavy sea. The vessel had then...
Eugenie
On the 13th November the brig Eugenie, of Brevig, bound for Great Yarmouth with a cargo of ice, stranded on the North Scroby Sand in a very heavy sea and a strong breeze from the S.S.W. The Life-boat Beauchamp went to her assistance and,...
The First Steam Life-Boat
THE recent notices in the press, both written and pictorial, of the latest production of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION—" the first steam Lifeboat "—have been so full, that we can quite imagine some of the Society's...
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Broadcast of a Launch at New Brighton
ON 2nd January a broadcast of a launch of the motor life-boat at New Brighton, was given in the North Regional programme. The firing of the maroons, the orders of the cox- swain and the sounds of the life-boat leaving New Brighton stage were...
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A Rowing Boat (3)
JUNE 2ND. - YOUGHAL, CO. CORK.
At about 4.10 P.M. a message came that a rowing boat with two persons on board wasin difficulties in Youghal Bay. The wind was due east and increasing, with a ground swell, and the boat was...