LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Volunteer and Sarah Davies
FlSHGUARD, PEMBROKESHIRE. — Flares were shown by two vessels at anchor in Fishguard Bay while a strong gale was blowing from N.N.E. accompanied by a heavy sea, thick weather and snow, onthe llth February. Eockets were immediately fired at...
An Irish Air Force Seaplane (1)
Launches 37. Lives Rescued 12.
MARCH. 3RD. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, AND KILMORE, CO. WEXFORD. A the message was received at Rosslare at 4.55 P.M.
that an Irish Air Force seaplane had come down in the sea off...
Life-Buoy Used to Simulate Man Overboard
This was one of the last exercises carried out by the Ferryside life-boat. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Life-Boat Institution and the Mersey Dock and Harbour Board
FOE several years past the officers of) the MERSEY DOCK AND HARBOUR BOARD have been so much occupied and pressed by their many important duties that they have found it simply impossible to give the attention and care which they could have...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Monita
Lytham-St. Anne's, Lancashire.—At 6.35 on the evening of the 6th of March, 1956, the watchman in the navigation barge which is moored off Lytham rang up to say that he had received a message that the S.S. Monita, of Stockholm, at anchor...
The 52Ft Arun Relief Lifeboat Edith Emilie Moored at the Rnli Poole Depot Quay for Her Naming
The 52ft Arun relief lifeboat Edith Emilie moored at the RNLI Poole depot quay for her naming.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Gift Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution
FOURTEEN years since a movement com- menced of an altogether novel character in the life-boat work, and which is without precedent in this or in any other country.
At that period a benevolent lady presented the NATIONAL...
Category: Articles
Merite
FEBRUARY 21ST. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE. At 10.40 A.M. t h e coastguard reported a light E. by S. of Peterhead, and later reported that it was still to be seen, drifting northward. A fresh N.E. breeze was blowing with a moderate...
Ben Strome
At about 8.30 P.M. on the 5th January the coastguard telephoned that a vessel seaward of Buchan Ness lighthouse was showing distress signals. The life-boat coxswain was ill, and the motor life-boat Duke of Connaught was launched at 8.40...
Building a Rother Class Lifeboat: Part Xii—Trials
THROUGHOUT HER BUILDING a lifeboat is under the regular scrutiny of the RNLI's own hull, machinery and electronics overseers; she also receives periodic visits by Lloyd's Register of Shipping surveyors and an exceptionally high...
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