LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Vauban
On. the 4th November, at 4 A.M., the No. 1 Life-boat Oovent Garden put off, signals of distress having been shown from the North Scroby Sand, and the light ships continually firing guns and rockets, during a strong gale from the E.S.E., and...
B.S. Callings, Premier, and Hilda
JANUARY 20TH. - SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. The fishing cobles B. S. Callings, Premier, and Hilda were at sea. A north-easterly wind was blowing, and by the afternoon a heavy ground swell was breaking across the bay. At 2.55 the motor life-boat...
St. Kieran
Galway Bay.—At 10.30 on the morn- ing of the 1st of June, 1954, the life- boat coxswain noticed that the trawler St. Kieran, of Galway, had gone aground at Straw Island about one mile east of Kilronan. At eleveno'clock the life-boat...
Great Rail Journeys
TYROLEAN WINTER BY TRAIN FROM LONDON Trove/ with the UK's hading specialist in holidays by rail on this sensational 10-day holiday to the snow covered mountains of the Austrian Tyrol.
A friendly and professional Tour...
Category: Advertisement
55 Years -- Still Giving
A subscriber in Huddersfield in sending his subscription of £2 writes: "In the year 1889 my father bought us children Mr. Ballantyne's Book 'The Life-boat'. Since then I have never been able to get past a life-boat...
Category: Articles
St. Mary's, Woolwich. Presentation of Life-Boat Institution Award
eAN interesting ceremony took place on Wednesday, October 16th, in St. Mary's Girls' School, Woolwich, the occasion being the award of the Challenge Shield for London in connection with the recent essay competition on the "...
Category: Awards
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
DOVER.—While a strong gale was blow- ing from N.E., accompanied by a heavy sea, on the 25th March, 1898, two vessels in the bay showed signals of distress, and at 10 A.M. the Life-boat Lewis Morice put off to their assistance. She first...
Category: Services
St. Anne
Lytham-St. Anne's, Lancashire. At 8.20 on the morning of the 29th of November, 1959, a watchman on board the navigation barge moored off Lytham told the honorary secretary that a pas- sing vessel had reported that the pilot cutter St....
Gull
Margate, Kent. At 2.40 on the afternoon of the 22nd of May, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a cabin cruiser, which had been under observation, appeared to have broken down and was drifting with the tide about seven...
On July 18 1881 After Largs New Boathouse
On July 18, 1881, after Largs new boathouse, funded by a legacy from Miss Janet Brunion, had been opened by Mrs D. Jackson, the station's new Atlantic 21 lifeboat, the gift of the Independent Order of Foresters, was handed over by Mr T.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs