LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Life-Boat Essay Competition
Presentation of Prizes in Greater London.
THE challenge shield and individual prizes won by Greater London schools in the Life-boat Essay Competition this year were presented by Major- General the Right Hon. J. E....
Category: Articles
Lady Fry Naming the "Manchester and Salford."
Lady Fry Naming The "Manchester and Salford". - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
5. Aberdeen's Bon Accord No,1
5. Aberdeen's Bon Accord No,1 North Country class lifeboat shares its name with the station's current Severn class lifeboat.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Ashley
MARCH 9TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT. At 2.10 P.M. information was received from the naval authorities that a steamer was in need of help to the north of the North Goodwin Light-vessel. A light S.W. wind was blowing, with a slight sea. The motor life...
Doggy paddle
When Oscar the dog’s owners throw him a ball, he usually fetches it straight back. But on 13 June he decided it would be much more fun to carry on nosing it out to sea until he was almost 300m from the shore. His worried owners reported his...
Category: Articles
Rig Supply Vessel Sinks After Collision
Cramer's Tyne class lifeboat Ruby and Arthur Reed II is pictured standing by the rig supply vessel Si Mark shortly before she sank on 6 August 1990.
The lifeboat had been launched at 1620 following a Mayday call from... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Membership News
Governors ... Shoreline... Storm Force.. A very active membership The London Boat Show always gets our membership recruitment off to a good start for the year, and 1990 was no exception.
Our resident team of recruiters...
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Services of Life-Boats
HAUXLEY, NORTHUMBERLAND.—On the 5th of January, 1854, the brig Earl of Newburgh, of Shields, coal laden, brought up in a sinking state in Coquet Roads, the wind blowing a gale from the eastward at the time. The danger to her crew being...
Category: Services
A Schooner The Prospect, of Berwick on Tweed
On the 1st Jtntnays 1861, another dchot«er, th* Prospeet, of Berwick-on- f weed, laden with colds; wifll ft crew of Sii Sse'fi, wta observed at anfeiof & the' Cio^uet Roads, apparently in a sinking state* and close to the...
The S.S. Acaster
NEWBIGGIN, NOBIHTTMBKBLAND.—During a gale of wind from the S.8.E., and a very heavy rough sea on the 22nd of December, the s.s. Acaster, of Hartlepool, bound from Honfleur for Shields, in ballast, was observed ashore on Bridge Head, a mile...