LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Primrose
BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT BALLYCOTTON JANUARY 30TH. - BALLYCOTTON, CO. CORK. In the early morning of the 27th of January, 1941, many mines came ashore in Ballycotton Bay, on the south coast of Ireland, and four of them exploded, doing...
Past and Present
100 years ago From the pages of THE LIFEBOAT, May 1890 issue THE LIFE-BELT USED BY THE CREWS OF THE LIFE-BOATS OF THE NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION The requisite qualities of a life-boatman's life-belt are:- 1. Sufficient extra buoyancy...
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FEBRUARY 2ND. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE. Flares had been reported two miles off Troup Head, but nothing could be found. - Rewards £7 6s. 6d.
(Above) Standard 16' High-Speed Inshore Lifeboat With Inflated Neoprene Hull Can Work In Shoal Water and Among Rocks Normal Crew Two But Can Carry Up to Ten Peopl
(Above) Standard 16' high-speed inshore lifeboat with inflated neoprene hull can work in shoal water and among rocks. Normal crew, two, but can carry up to ten people.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Irish Air Force Seaplane (1)
Rosslare Harbour, and Kilmore, Co. Wexford.
—A message was received at Rosslare at 4.55 P.M. on the 3rd March, 1939, that an Irish Air Force seaplane had come down in the sea off Carnsore Point.
A S.S.E....
Unsung heroes: Mike Howland
Lifeboat Press Officer,
Douglas Lifeboat Station
How did you first get involved with the RNLI?
I’m a hobby wildlife photographer, and my son was on the crew as deputy second coxswain. The press officer left...
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Three Yachts including Lucky Girl
Yacht saved by shore helpers ILFRACOMBE LIFEBOAT, the 37ft Oakley class Lloyds II, had launched to a yacht in difficulties in an east-north-easterly gale on the night of Friday June 20, 1986. With the help of a local sand dredger Arco Tamar...
Why She ? It Seems Just As a Term of Familiarity, Affection and Endearment, Perhaps Encouraged By the Original Frequency of Obviously Female Figureheads on the Ships of Old.
Why she ? It seems just as a term of familiarity, affection and endearment, perhaps encouraged by the original frequency of obviously female figureheads on the ships of old.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Wisdom
SHOREHAM.—On the 17th January, the smack Wisdom, of Shoreham, in attempting to leave the harbour at about 6 P.M.
got foul of the new extension works, and hung by her shrouds. The crew were unable to get the vessel clear,...
Royal Charter and Our Maggie
Scarborough, Yorkshire.—During the morning of the 24th January the motor fishing boat Royal Charter, of Grimsby, and the local motor fishing coble Our Maggie left Scarborough for the fishing grounds. By 1.15 P.M. a strong gale was blowing...