LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Canoe
Weymouth, Dorset - At 12.50 a.m.
on gth June, 1967, it was felt that two people who had put out in a canoe from Weymouth beach might be in difficulties.
The life-boat Frank Spiller Locke slipped her...
The S.S. Mary Ada Short
During the evening of the 14th November the s.s.
Mary Ada Short, of Sunderland, whilst attempting to enter the harbour, became unmanageable and drove ashore behind the old South Pier. At the request of the owners the South...
The Bermuda Sloop-Rigged Yacht Astral
Douglas, Isle of Man.—About two o'clock on the afternoon of the 1st of June, 1953, the harbour master received a message from the S.S.
Snaefell, of Douglas, that she was standing by the Bermuda sloop-rigged yacht Astral...
The Relief Tyne Class Lifeboat the Good Shepherd Pictured When on Service from Holyhead on 31 January
The relief Tyne class lifeboat The Good Shepherd pictured when on service from Holyhead on 31 January 1990.
The lifeboat had been launched in severe gale conditions when the Irish Sea ferry St Columba suffered an engine... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Oak Leaves
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford. At 7.20 on the evening of the llth of November, 1959, the coxswain received a message from a Wexford fish merchant that the fishing boat Oak Leaves had not returned to Wexford. When last seen near Blackwater...
Wellington of Aberystwith
On the 14th April, during 'a very severe gale of wind, a brig was seen to part from her anchors in the Mumbles Roads, and to bum signals of distress. The Wolverhampton life-boat was promptly launched, and remained by the vessel until,...
(Left) at the New York Reception Held at the Statler-Hilton Hotel (I to R) Colonel John Rice Executive Vice-President New York Council Navy League of Us Austin Volk Regional President Navy League Nicholas Ludington Afras Committee Memb
(Left) At the New York reception, held at the Statler-Hilton Hotel, (I. to r.) Colonel John Rice, Executive Vice-President, New York Council, Navy League of US, Austin Volk, Regional President, Navy League, Nicholas Ludington, AFRAS... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Norman
SEAHAM, DURHAM.—-The ss. Norman, of London, bound from Dantzie to Stockton with grain, went ashore about a mile and a half N. of Seaham Harbour shortly before 1 A.M. on the 10th June, during a N. wind and high sea. The Life-boat Sisters...
Star of Hope
WEXFORD.—At about 6 o'clock on the morning of the 18th October, 1889, the Life-boat Ethel Eveleen was launched, intelligence having been received that a vessel was aground on the Dogger Bank.
A strong gale was blowing...
The Danish Steamer Marianne Toft, of Copenhagen (1)
SEPTEMBER 12TH. - PORT ERIN, AND PEEL, ISLE OF MAN. The Danish steamer Marianne Toft of Copenhagen, had sunk after collision with another vessel. Twelve of her crew landed in a ship’s boat, but ten others in another boat could not be found.-...