LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Semnos II
Aberdeen - At 2.9 a.m. on i6th December, 1966, a red flare was sighted north of the river Ythan, and later it was confirmed that the motor fishing vessel Semnos II was aground north of the river estuary. The coastguard L.S.A. company were...
Irb Launches on Service During the Months June, July and August, 1971
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire Aberdovey, Merionethshire Abersoch, Caernarvonshire Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire Amble, Northumberland Arran (Lamlash), Buteshire Atlantic College, Glamorganshire Bangor, Co. Down Barmouth, Merionethshire Barrow,...
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People and Places
Around and about the RNLI A swarm of Flying Bs The names of the prize winners in the 49th national lottery were pulled from the drum at the Poole headquarters on 30 April by members of the Bentley Drivers' Club.
The...
Category: Articles
Catherina
TEIGNMOUTH.—At about 2 P.M. on the 14th April a vessel was seen running for the harbour whilst a strong E.S.B. wind was blowing and a heavy sea breaking on the bar. In trying to cross the bar she stranded in a dangerous position in the...
July
Launches 64 Lives rescued 28
JULY 2ND. - CAMPBELTOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE.
While bound from Montreal for Glasgow with a general cargo the Liverpool steamer Dorelian, of over 6,000 tons, stranded in dense fog on...
Category: Services
Violet
On 22nd September, during a strong S.S.E. gale, the Bobert FitzStephens Life-boat was launched in answer to signals of distress from the schooner Violet, of Arklow, which was at anchor off Oourtown. On arrival alongside, the coxswain found...
Leicester City
On the 22nd of March, 1953, the Stromness and Thurso life-boats both went to the help of the trawler Leicester City, of Grimsby, when she went aground three and a half miles south- west of Stromness. Fourteen men were picked up alive, but...
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Stromness, Orkneys.—At five o'clock on the afternoon of the 14th of Jan- uary, 1955, a local doctor asked if the life-boat would take a sick woman in need of hospital treatment to Scapa pier, because the road from Stromness to Kirkwall...
The Duke of Atholl a Deputy Chairman of the Rnli Called at Three Lifeboat Stations Skegness Withernsea and Humber and Met Many Voluntary Fund Raisers When H
The Duke of Atholl, a Deputy Chairman of the RNLI, called at three lifeboat stations, Skegness, Withernsea and Humber, and met many voluntary fund raisers when he visited the North East in March. On his tour, starting from district HQ and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Royal National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck (1)
National Institution FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.
ESTABLISHED IN SUPPORTED BY VOLUNTARY SUBSCRIPTIONS.
PATRONESS.
HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE...
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