LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services of Foreign Life-Boats to British Vessels In 1933
IN the last issue of The Life-boat particulars were given of services to British vessels during last year by the life-boat services of Denmark, France, Germany, Holland, Iceland, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Turkey and...
Category: Services
Trader, of Portaferry
NEWCASTLE, DUNDBUM BAY.—At 1 P.M. on the 13th February, the brigantine Trader, of Portaferry, was seen driving before a hard gale, at S.E., into Dundrum Bay. The Trader had lost her foretopmast and was otherwise disabled aloft, and had a...
Book Reviews
0 It must be almost impossible to write an uninteresting book about the lifeboat service but equally difficult to do full justice to the subject. A. D.
Farr has achieved the difficult task of writing a splendidly...
Category: Articles
John and Mary, of Shields
At daylight on the 19th October, a large brig was seen to be ashore on the West Sands off this place, with a signal of distress flying in the main rigging. The weather was terrific, a gale of wind blowing from the north, and bringing in a...
Right: Crew Members of Rhyl's Mersey Class Lifeboat Bring In the Hypothermic Skiers.
Right: Crew members of Rhyt's Mersey class lifeboat bring m the hypothermic skiers.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Exmouth: D R Allen Birmingham Branch Honorary Treasurer (/) and Clem Lewis Birmingham Evening Mail Assistant Editor Are Taken Afloat Photograph By Courtesy
Exmouth: D. R. Allen, Birmingham branch honorary treasurer (/.) and Clem Lewis, Birmingham Evening Mail assistant editor, are taken afloat. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of Birmingham Evening Mail. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Fishing Hooker Little Queen
On the 29th Nov. the Life-boat Christopher L-udlow, of this station, rescued 6 men from the fish- ing hooker Littte Queen, of Dungarvan, which had lost her mast and was leaking.
There was a heavy cross-sea and a...
Victorian photographer’s art of glass
In a nod to his craft’s Victorian heritage, one Newcastle-based photographer is visiting every lifeboat station with his 110-year-old camera and glass plate technology.
Using a former NHS ambulance as a mobile darkroom,...
Category: Articles
The Faith Star, Progress, Success, Galilee, Provider A, Lead Us,Pilot Me II
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 11.45 on the morning of the 17th ofDecember, 1952, the coastguard reported that bad weather had made conditions danger- ous on the outer harbour bar. As fishing boats were still at sea, the No. 1 life-boat Mary Ann...
The Chairman of the R.N.L.I., Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E., K.C.B., D.S.O., arriving at the Belfast Boat Show on 18th February, 1970. Admiral Woods, while in Northern Ireland, visited a number of life-boat stations.
The Chairman of the R.N.L.I., Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E., K.C.B., D.S.O., arriving at the Belfast Boat Show on 18th February, 1970. Admiral Woods, while in Northern Ireland, visited a number of life-boat stations.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs