LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
At the Blast of Royal National Life-Boat Institution Whistles, Teams of Women and Schoolgirls Drawn from Around Bournemouth and Poole Began Furiously Knitting Blanket Squares at Sponsored Kni
At the blast of Royal National Life-boat Institution whistles, teams of women and schoolgirls drawn from around Bournemouth and Poole began furiously knitting blanket squares at sponsored knitins held simultaneously at Beales of Poole and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Steamer (14)
MARCH 4TH. - DUNGENESS, KENT, AND EASTBOURNE, SUSSEX. A steamer was reported to have been torpedoed, but neitherlife-boat could find anything, and news was received later that other vessels engaged in the search had found her. - Rewards :...
A Steamer (15)
MARCH 4TH. - DUNGENESS, KENT, AND EASTBOURNE, SUSSEX. A steamer was reported to have been torpedoed, but neitherlife-boat could find anything, and news was received later that other vessels engaged in the search had found her. - Rewards :...
The S.S. Eaglescliffe Hall
NOVEMBER 12TH. - PORTHDINLLAEN, CAERNARVONSHIRE. The S.S. Eaglescliffe Hall, of Montreal, had been reported drifting, and the life-boat put out twice, but she could not find her. The news came through later that the crew had been rescued by...
The Rules Made By the Board of Trade Under the Life-Saving Appliances Act, 1888
THESE rules, which are to come into effect on the 1st of November, were signed I a few days ago by Sir MICHAEL HICKSBEACH, and have just been presented to j Parliament. They are certainly of a most elaborate character—it is difficult to see...
Category: Articles
A Silver Medal Service at Peterhead
JUST before 10 o'clock on the night of the 18th January last, the Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, Coxswain received a telephone message from the Coast- guard that a vessel was ashore on St-otstown Head, three-and-a-quarter miles north of...
Category: Services
Rear Admiral Wilfred Graham Director of the Rnli Visited Newcastle Lifeboat Station During a Tour of Ireland Lust December With Him Lire (I to R) Motor Mechanic Gerald Murphy Crew Member
Rear Admiral Wilfred Graham, Director of the RNLI, visited Newcastle lifeboat station during a tour of Ireland lust December. With him lire (I. to r.) Motor Mechanic Gerald Murphy, Crew Member Jim Smyth, Second Coxswain Samuel McCulli ugh.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Anson Aeroplane
JULY 17TH. - RHYL, FLINTSHIRE, AND LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE. At eight o’clock in the evening the Rhyl life-boat station was told that an Anson aeroplane had come down in the sea seven miles to the north-west, and that Botha aeroplanes and...
A Sailing Dinghy
A SAILING DINGHY in difficulties off Little Orme was sighted by Llandudno deputy launching authority and station mechanic at 1525 on April 27, 1974. The DLA immediately advised HM Coastguard and assembled the crew.
The wind...
An American Superfortress Aeroplane (1)
Great' Yarmouth and Gorleston, and Caister, Norfolk; and Lowestoft, and Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—About 6.30 in the evening, on the 7th of June, 1950, an American Superfortress aeroplane crashed eight miles north-north-east of Smith's...