LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The King and the Life-Boat Service
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 124 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 48 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to February 14th, 1935 - 63,938 The King and the Life-boat Service.
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Category: Articles
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston: Relief 44' Waveney Lifeboat 44-001 on Temporary Duty at Gorleston Returning from Service to the Danish Vessel Baltic Which Had Devel
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston: Relief 44' Waveney lifeboat 44-001 on temporary duty at Gorleston returning from service to the Danish vessel Baltic, which had developed a heavy list, on April 8. Seven seamen, picked up by the tug Vanguard... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Ann Grace (1)
POINT OF AYR (FLINTSHIRE), and HOYLAKE (CHESHIRE). — On the 21st February, during a whole gale from W.
with a very heavy sea, intelligence was received that rockets were being fired in the direction of Lime Wharf. The Point...
Letters
THE JOURNAL 0 I feel that I cannot let the July edition of your journal pass without comment. I would have thought that the object of a publication named THE LIFE-BOAT would have been to give ne vs on developments, e.g. the article by Lieut....
Category: Correspondence
Drama in the dark
On the evening of 11 September 2014, the St Agnes lifeboat sped towards granite cliffs. It was the calmest night of the year – but, inside a flooded cave, a hidden drama was unfolding
Helmsman...
Category: Articles
Queen Victoria
Signals of distress were observed on the 3rd of April, in response to which the David Hulett Life-boat went afloat at 10.30 P.M., and found the barque Queen Victoria, of Dublin, stranded on the Swallow Bank. At the master's request, the...
Collisions at Sea
WE extract from the Nautical Magazine the following paper from the pen of Capt. K. B. MARTIN, Harbour Master, Ramsgate.
It contains some pertinent remarks on the subject of collisions at sea, and especially points to an...
Category: Articles
Galway Medals. Presented By President Cosgrave
Presented by President Cosgrave.
THE awards made by the Institution for the gallant efforts to discover the survivors of the Welsh trawler Cardigan Castle, which struck the rocks and sank in Clifden Bay, Connemara, on the...
Category: Medals
Lofty Lifesavers
Lofty lifesavers Sometimes, lifeboats need a little help from above. The Lifeboat meets the air crew who play their part in sea rescues – and who are lifesavers in their own right It’s a chilly Sunday morning on the windy, exposed airfield...
Category: Articles
Ruth II
JANUARY 11TH. - DONAGHADEE, CO. DOWN. At 12.45 in the morning the police telephoned that a vessel was in distress off the Cable Hut, Ballyvester, Donaghadee.
The motor life-boat Civil Service No. 5 was launched at 1.15. A...