LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Freighter Dovrefjell, of Oslo (1)
Longhope, Orkneys, and Wick, Caith- ness-shire.—At 4.22 on the morning of the 3rd of February, 1956, the freighter Dovrefjell, of Oslo, a converted tanker, wirelessed that she had gone aground in the Pentland Skerries but was in no immediate...
The wreck of the Hindlea
The scars left by the wreck of the Royal Charter run deep among local people. The storm and the appalling loss of life have become a grim legend and on the centenary of the shipwreck in October 1959 a service of remembrance was held at...
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The Gardens of Sheffield Park
FOR many years before the war the famous gardens of Sheffield Park, in Sussex, were opened to the public and the entrance money given to charity.
In 1949, for the first time since the war, they were again opened, for five...
Category: Donations
The Power of the Sea
Dunbar’s Trent class all-weather lifeboat Sir Ronald Pechell Bt parted the ground chain of her moorings and was repeatedly thrown against rocks in ferocious conditions of up to storm force 10 in the early hours of Easter...
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Services of the Life-Boats of the Institution During 1920
Lives saved.
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The Angry State of the Sea at the Time Is Well Illustrated In This Striking Aerial Picture of the Wreck of the M.V. Anzio I off the Lincolnshire Coast on 3rd April, 1966
The angry state of the sea at the time is well illustrated in this striking aerial picture of the wreck of the m.v. Anzio / off the Lincolnshire coast on 3rd April, 1966. Some of the crew of the Number life-boat were injured because of the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution from the 1st July to the 30th Sept. 1876
ABKLOW.—At daybreak on the 8th July, 1876, the weather being moderate, in- formation was received from the Coastguard that a barque was ashore near " Jack's- j hole," Arklow Banks. The Life-boat Oat- Pensioner was launched...
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JANUARY 1 2TH. - BALTIMORE, CO.
CORK. Five local fishing boats were several miles out, line-fishing, and as a strong breeze got up from the S.W. four of them returned a t 2 P . M . The wind increased, the sea became very...
List of the Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution During the Year 1888
1 ,ives saved.
Akaba, s.s,, of Liverpool 3o Alabama, Vvarqae, ot Tonsberg ... 8 Albatross, barque, of Hernosan 1 —landed crew from the Tongue light venae!.
Albert H. Locke, brig, of Sund rlaiu 10 Albert...
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The Society of Arts and Life-Saving Apparatus
THE "Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce," com- monly known as the " Society of Arts," as most of our readers will be aware, offers from time to time its Gold Medal to be competed for by...
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