LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Duke of Northumberland's Life-Boat Essay Competition, 1931
THE Duke of Northumberland's Life- boat Essay Competition, was held this year for the eleventh time. As in the previous year, the Institution has pre- sented eight Challenge Shields and 280 individual awards, that is to say, a Challenge...
Category: Articles
Airdrie, of Stranraer
On the 25th Sept., the schooner Airdrie, of Stranraer, was stranded on the Baldoyle Sands, in Dublin Bay, during a gale of wind. The same life-boat went off through a heavy and dangerous sea and rescued the crew of 4 men..
Contest, of Guernsey
The Manky Wood life-boat at Poole rescued the crew of 10 men and 36 labourers from the brig Contest, of Guernsey, which was wrecked on the Hook Sand at the entrance of Poole Harbour ......
New Ways of Raising Money
A VARIATION of the old game of musical chairs was played at the eleventh birthday party of the Hornchurch Sea Cadets early this year. A pot was passed round a circle of people. The pot had to be kept moving but when the music stoppe'd...
Category: Donations
Pandema, of Plymouth, and Besty, of Brixham
On the night of 18th March the brigantine Pandema, of Ply- mouth, bound from Cardiff to London with railway iron, struck on the Doomedbar Sands off Padstow during a strong northerly gale and heavy sea. The life-boat at Padstow was at once...
Democratic Republic of Germany: Poel Is One of East Germany's 179M Lifeboats; Speed 10 Knots the Service Also Has Two Rescue Cruisers and Inflatable Inshore Life
Democratic Republic of Germany: Poel is one of East Germany's 17.9m lifeboats; speed 10 knots. The service also has two rescue cruisers and inflatable inshore lifeboats.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Birte, of Copenhagen
OCTOBER 4TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 6.35 in the morning, the Deal coastguard reported a steamer aground on the Goodwin Sands. An easterly wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. The motor life-boat Charles Dibdin (Civil Service No. 2) was...
Merchant Shipping (Carriage of Grain) Act, 1880
PERHAPS Mr. Plimsoll, in the interest of Saving Life at Sea, has done no more useful thing than pressing on the atten- tion of Parliament the necessity for addi- tional precautions and legal requirements to prevent the shifting of grain and...
Category: Articles
The M.F.V.s Sophie Louise, Nova Venture and George Weatherill
Help for disabled MFV in severe gale force winds IWhitby's relief Tyne class lifeboat Owen and Ann Aisher was on service for some 12 hours on 3 April 1990 when three fishing vessels experienced difficulties with the entrance to the...
Hope, of Aberystwith
The services of this valuable life-boat were again called into requisition on the evening of the 23rd December under the following circumstances:—A light being observed on the South Bank while it was blowing fresh from the S.W., the...