LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
When Ringley Parish Church
When Ringley Parish Church, in Lancashire, held its first Festival of Flowers in July a display entitled 'The Work of the Lifeboats' was arranged by members of Farnworth and Kearsley branch. The Reverend C.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Gerassimos Vergottis and Van Ostade (1)
JULY 1ST. - PENLEE, AND THE LIZARD, CORNWALL. During thick fog the Greek steamer Gerassimos Vergottis and the Dutch steamer Van Ostade had collided, and the Greek steamer had been badly damaged.
The life-boats could not...
Atlantic award
The Walter and Elizabeth Groombridge award is made each year for the most meritorious service in an Atlantic B class lifeboat. The RNLI Trustee Committee met on 23 July and agreed that the 2007 award should be made to Flamborough Helmsman...
Category: Articles
Constitution
On the 21st July, the ship Constitution, bound from Liverpool to New York, with passengers and general cargo, struck on the Bank off Arklow. The life-boats at Arklow and Wicklow went off, with the view of rendering assistance. The vessel was...
A Ship’s Boat (1)
JULY 19TH. - ARRANMORE, CO.DONEGAL. At about noon a man reported a ship’s boat drifting off the island. The weather was moderate with a S.W. wind.
At 8 P.M. the motor life-boat K.T.J.S. was launched, and found the boat...
Honorary Workers of the Institution. No. 7. Major Herbert Edgar Burton, O.B.E., R.E., Hon. Superintendent of the Tynemouth Motor Life-Boat
No. 7. Major Herbert Edgar Button, O.B.E., RE., Hon. Superintendent of the Tynemouth Motor Life-boat.
No county in Great Britain has a finer record of Life-boat service than Northumberland. It was at Bamburgh, in...
Category: Articles
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
BIDEFORD.—A new life-boat 34 feet long, and fitted to row either with six oars singlebanked, or twelve short oars double-banked, has been placed at Appledore, near Bideford, in lieu of a smaller one previously there. The cost of the boat was...
Category: Articles
The Fisher Boy, of Wick
JANUARY 24TH. - THURSO, CAITHNESSSHIRE.
At 12.5 in the afternoon a fisherman telephoned from Melvick that a fishing boat was in distress about seven miles east of Port Skerra, and the motor life-boat...
A Motor Launch
Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin.—At 12.10 early on the morning of the 8th of November, 1956, a telephone message was received from the Dublin harbour office that a motor launch with three men on board needed help two hundred yards south of Poolbeg...
The Rescue of Three Fishermen. A Gallant Service off Folkestone
A Gallant Service off Folkestone.
ON the night of Sunday, 13th December last, a strong S.W. gale was blowing off Folkestone, with a very heavy sea and driving rain. The day had been fine, and early in the afternoon the...
Category: Services