LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Cover Picture
from Portsmouth lifeboat Crew member Paul Redmond cares for a four-year-old boy aboard the Atlantic 21 class lifeboat City of Portsmouth during a service on 2 October 1994. A full report of the service appears on page... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Cairnie
APRIL 3RD. - ABERDEEN. At 8.33 P.M.
the steamer Cairnie, of Methil, was sounding distress signals and showing white flares on Aberdeen Bar. A moderate E.S.E. gale was blowing, with a heavy sea. At 8.51...
A Fishing Boat
GOURDON, KlNCARDINESHIRE. —• One of the fishing boats of this port, while attempting to enter the harbour during a strong S.S.W. breeze with a rough sea, on the 24th February incurred considerable risk, and the Local Committee, knowing she...
The Life-Boat Saturday Fund
THE numerous enthusiastic bands of workers on behalf of the Life-boat Satur- day Fund have, throughout the United Kingdom, had exceptional obstacles and difficulties to deal with this year, as the result of the multitudinous appeals, in...
Category: Articles
An Aeroplane (4)
Lytham-St. Annes, Lancashire; New Brighton No. 2, Cheshire ; Kirkcudbright; Douglas, Peel, Port Erin, Port St. Mary and Ramsey, Isle of Man.—21st January.
These eight life-boats searched for a missing aeroplane without...
Hope in the Great War
'SIR, As I was an eyewitness of them, I think it may be of interest to you to have a narrative of the events which led up to – what I have no hesitation in calling – one of the most gallant rescues in the annals of the...
Category: Articles
Praunheim, of Bremen
Valentia, Co. Kerry - At 9.30 a.m.
on 3Oth July, 1967, a message was received from Valentia radio that there was a sick man on board the motor vessel Praunheim of Bremen, and a request had been made for the life-boat to...
The Life-Boat Transporting-Carriage
(See Diagram* on next page.) The Life-boat transporting-carriage is a very important auxiliary to the boat. Every Life-boat, except a few of the larger size, is provided with a carriage, on which she is kept in the boat-house ready for...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat Transporting-Carriage
The Life-boat transporting-carriage is a very important auxiliary to the boat.
Every Life-boat, except a few of the larger size,, is provided with a carriage, on which she is kept in the boat-house ready for immediate...
Category: Articles
Lights and Lighthouses. (Continued from Page 725.)
(Continued from page 725.) OF all the substances which the genius of man has enabled him to extract from the crude matter of the earth, and to appropriate to his own use, there is perhaps none so beautiful as glass. Whether we look at the...
Category: Articles