LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
History In the Re-Making: In January 1899 Lynmouth Lifeboat Was Hauled Up Countisbury Hill Ten Miles Over Exmoor and Down the Notorious Porlock Hill Through a Severe Gale So That She Could La
History in the re-making: in January 1899 Lynmouth lifeboat was hauled up Countisbury Hill, ten miles over Exmoor and down the notorious Porlock Hill through a severe gale so that she could launch from the comparative shelter of Porlock Weir... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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Category: Advertisement
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SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT WHITBY FEBRUARY 3RD. - WHITBY, AND SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE.
At nine o’clock at night the coastguard telephoned to the life-boat station at Whitby that a vessel was ashore near Saltwick. The tide was...
Painting the Life-Boats of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution
IN order to insure regularity in painting the life-boats of the Institution, and the use of the best description of paint, its Committee have decided on forwarding the requisite supply of paint, each year, direct from the...
Category: Articles
Helpers at Seaton Beer and District Branch's 1983
The mob cap mob, alias helpers at Seaton, Beer and District branch's 1983 country fair; it was part of a very successful lifeboat week which raised more than £1,000. The fair, held appropriately in the Mariners Hall, attracted... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Six Men Lost from Rowing Boat
ALBERT COTTIER, assistant motor mechanic of the Ramsey (Isle of Man) life-boat station, lost his life, together with five other men when a rowing boat capsized on the 8th of March, 1956. An unsuccessful search by the Ramsey life-boat was...
Category: Obituaries
Life-Boat Call In the Pentland
[In every number of The Life-boat there appears after an account of all the effective services in any month the statement: The following life-boats went out on service, but could find no ship in distress, were not needed or could do nothing....
Category: Services
The Screw Steamer Altona
About 1.30 A.M. of the 23rd October, the night being stormy and peculiarly dark, the wind at east (dead on shore), the lights of a vessel on the Beacon Rocks, Eoker, to the north, of the entrance to Sunderland Harbour, were observed from the...
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Category: Articles
Duke Senior
Anglers landed THE FISHING VESSEL Duke Senior appeared to be in difficulties near the entrance to Whitstable harbour just after midday on Sunday January 19, 1986. There were a number of people on board, thought to be anglers, and the boat...