LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Drawings of the Life-Boats and Life-Boat Carriages Adopted By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
FIVE years' experience by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION of the new class of life-boats, designed by JAMES PEAKE, Esq., of Her Majesty's Dock-yard, Woolwich, and elicited by the prize of 100 guineas given by His Grace the Duke of...
Category: Articles
A Liberty Ship, The American Motor Vessel George Hawley (1)
JANUARY 21ST. - SENNEN COVE, AND PENLEE, CORNWALL. At 3.15 in the afternoon the coastguard telephoned that the naval authorities wanted the Sennen Cove life-boat to go to a vessel four miles south-bywest of the Longships. A light northerly...
Three of a Kind
West Kirby's D class, Thomas Jefferson, and Hoylake's Mersey, Lady of Hilbre, joined New Brighton's Atlantic, Rock Light, and sailed in formation past The Magazines, site of the earliest RNLI station on the Wirral and also where... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Steamer Denham
JULY 18TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. While the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board steamer Denham was engaged on survey work she struck a mine about two hundred yards south-west of Rock 3 Block buoy. She was completely wrecked, throwing her crew...
Mrs Veda Morris Names the Relief D Class Lifeboat C John Morris In Memory of Her Late Husband.
Mrs Veda Morris names the relief D class lifeboat C John Morris in memory of her late husband.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
News from the Branches. 1st July to 30th September
Greater London.
CROYDON (SURREY).—Life-boat Collecting Boxes placed in the booking offices of the Air Lines and also at the Aerodrome Hotel.
BALING. — Drawing-room Meeting, given by Mrs. Brydges, wife of...
Category: Branches
Was the Queen a Pilot Boat In Lagos?
Was The Queen a pilot boat in Lagos? After World War 2 I went to work in British West Africa and spent the 1950s in Lagos.
The Lagos pilot used an ex-UK lifeboat reputed to have been on the Mersey. As almost all the major... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Four Gallant Services
AT 11.30 on the morning of the 28th August, 1919, during a strong southerly gale with a very heavy sea and thick rain, the Bembridge Life-boat was launched to the help of an American steamer, the s.s. Wakvlla, of Los Angeles, which had...
Category: Services
Tortuguero and The American Steamer Clifford E. Ashby
APRIL 4TH. - WALMER, KENT. The Glasgow steamer Tortuguero and the American steamer Clifford E. Ashby had been in collision and both had been damaged, but they did not need the life-boat’s help. - Rewards.
£14 12s....