LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Meggies and My Gratitude
Humber, Yorkshire. At 10.30 on the night of the 24th of July, 1959, the coastguard informed the coxswain super- intendent that the Dowsing lightvessel had reported red flares five miles north- east of the lightvessel. The life-boat City of...
Coxswain at the Wheel
Staff Coxswain Sydney Hills at the wheel of the new 44-foot steel life-boat after completion of her trials in December. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Ribblehead
Barrow, Lancashire. At 11.35 on the morning of the llth of December, 1959, a firm of shipping agents in- formed the honorary secretary that a radio message had been received from the s.s. Ribblehead, which had sailedon the morning tide from...
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The internet has had a huge effect on the way local and national newsrooms are run. In response, the RNLI has launched a multimedia press centre with the latest RNLI news releases, photos and videos from all corners of the UK and RoI, all...
Category: Articles
The American Steamer Chrysanthy Star and Energetic
Cadgwith, and Penlee, Cornwall and St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly.—At 11.5 on the night of the 25th of June, 1948, during a thick fog, the Cadgwith coast- guard telephoned the Cadgwith life- boat station that the American steamer Chrysanthy...
Life Savers Taking a Surf Boat Out Through the Breakers at a Beach Carnival at Dee Why, North of Sydney, New South Wales.
Life savers taking a surf boat out through the breakers at a beach carnival at Dee Why, north of Sydney, New South Wales.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Cambalu
On the 30th January the s.s. Cambalu, of Liverpool, ran aground between Welcombe and Knapps Head, on the Cornish coast, in a dense fog.
She was bound, light, from Plymouth to Mumbles, and carried a crew of...
The Author Richard Mann In the Museum at Rnli Hq West Quay Road Poole As the Institution's Display Manager It Is Part of His Work to Care for the Institution's Museums and to Support The
The author, Richard Mann, in the museum at RNL1 HQ, West Quay Road. Poole. As the Institution's display manager it is part of his work to care for the Institution's museums and to support the volunteer curators who run... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lion, of Goole
On the 31st De- cember the schooner Lion, of Goole, laden with wheat, was observed making for this harbour. There was a heavy gale of wind blowing from E.N.E. at the time, with snow showers. There being very little water on the bar, signals...
The Finnish Steamer Otava
On the 8th June the Finnish steamer Otava, of Helsingfors, ran aground in a thick fog at Tunstall, about twenty miles south of Bridlington. She was bound for Hull with a cargo of timber, and carried a crew of sixteen. A moderate N.E....