LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Motor Launch
Falmouto, Cornwall.—At one o'clock in the morning of the 18th of June, 1948, a woman reported that her hus- band and another man had put out fishing in a motor launch the previous morning and had not returned. At 1.30 the motor life-boat...
Life-Boat Services In 1910
Lives saved.
Aberystwith, two small fishing boatsot 2 Adela, fishing boat, of Llan- dudno— saved boat and 2 Aeron Belle, schooner, of Aber- ystwith 3 Agamemnon, s.s., of Liverpool stood by vessel.
Agnes...
Category: Services
Heroen
Again, on the 17th March, at 6.30 A.M., during a fresh breeze from the E., the Vulcan' tug and Bradford Life-boat went to the aid of a large brig which was seen ashore on the N.E. part of the Goodwin Sands. On arriving alongside, the...
The S.S. Welsh Prince
WESTON-SUPER-MARE. — As the S.S. Welsh Prince, of Newport, was leaving the pier at Weston-Super-Mare for Bristol, at 6.30 on the evening of the 22nd September, with upwards of forty passengers on board, and a crew of six men, a hawser by...
Minsk
The steamer Minsk, of Copenhagen, was observed near the Bull Sand with a very heavy list to port, on the 10th December, and the Life-boat proceeded to her assistance. On arrival it was found that she was abandoned, having been mined whilst...
Presentation of a Gold Medal
THE Gold Medal of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, which is a much- coveted distinction, only bestowed for deeds of exceptional valour, was awarded in April to the REVEREND JOHN M. O'SHEA, parish priest of Ardmore, Co. Waterford...
Category: Medals
Books
• Storms brought devastation to Margate during the winter of 1978, destroying its pier and wrecking the lifeboat station. However, as a result of the research which followed to replace the lost service boards of Margate's lifeboats,...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Signals
LIFE-BOAT SIGNALS.
SIGNIFICATION.
NIGHT.
DAY.
1.—DANGER SEEN.
(To be answered from adjoining Stations as soon as observed.') Two Red-Star...
Category: Drawings
Ellen Myvanwy
PORTRUSH, Co. ANTRIM.—The schooner Ellen Myvanwy, of Beaumaris, bound from Runcorn for Ramelton, co. Donegal, with a cargo of salt, anchored in Skerries Roads, off Portrush,on the 28th Feb., 1891.
On the 2nd March, a gale...
The Control Board
A closer view, with the engine-hatch open, showing the engine-room and the two 35-h.p. petrol engines. - View image in PDF
These two photographs are of the 41-feet Watson life-boat Mary Ann Hepwortli, stationed at Whitby in 1938.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs