LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Torpedoed Collecting Box
The chief engineer of one of the steamers of the Holt Line who regularly brings to the office of the Institution's Port of Liverpool Branch a life-boat collecting box to be emptied, called a short time ago, full of apologies, because the...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
NORTH DEAL.—Signal rockets and guns having been fired by the Gull Light-vessel on the 4th January, the Life-boat Mary Somerville was launched at about 6.15 P.M., and proceeded towards the Goodwin Sands. The wind was blowing moderately from...
Category: Services
Other IRB Launches
In addition to the services by IRBs which resulted in saving lives and which are recorded in full on pages 121 and 130, the following launches on service were made during the months of December 1966, to February., 1967, inclusive:...
Category: Services
Carency
Wick, Caithness-shire.—At 12.40 early on the morning of the 29th of June, 1957, the coastguard telephoned that a trawler was ashore on the north side of Noss Head. At one o'clock the life-boat City of Edinburgh was launched in a slight...
Winona and H.M. Trawler Commander Holbrook
NOVEMBER 10TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At 5.20 A.M. the Great Yarmouth coastguard telephoned that rockets had been seen, and later it was learned that the British steamer Winona was aground five miles N.E. 1/2 E. from...
The Last Launch of the Hampshire Rose from Walmer (Above)
The last launch of The Hampshire Rose from Walmer (above). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Hans Hoth
Tynemouth, and Culler-coats, Northumberland.
—At 11.43 in the morning of the 9th of February, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that the motor vessel Hans Hoth, of Hamburg, of 370 tons, with a crew of nine, had wirelessed...
A Steam Launch
7th August.
A steam launch reported ashore, but could not be found.—Rewards, £5 3s.
A Steam Drifter
19th November. A 'steam-drifter stranded on the Scroby Sands, but refloated without help. — Rewards, £14 13s..
A Steam Drifter
24th May. A steam drifter had run aground, but she refloated on the flood tide without help.—Rewards, £13 2s. 6d..