LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A New Station on the West of Scotland. Port Askaig, Isle of Islay, Argyllshire
Port Askaig, Isle of Islay, Argyllshire.
LAST year a new life-boat station was established on the West of Scotland, at Port Askaig, Isle of Islay, Argyllshire.
The self-righting motor life-boat Frederick...
Category: Inaugurations
A Silver Medal Service By the Newburgh Life-Boat
A VERY fine service in which the crew of the Newburgh Life-boat and men of H.M. Destroyers Vampire and Vendetta played a gallant part, took place on October 19th, the anniversary of the wreck of the Hopelyn last year, off Belhelvie, near...
Category: Medals
Newly-Invented Sounding Instrument
THE principle on which this novel instrument is constructed to act, consists in obtaining the weight of the column of water resting on the ground, a principle which, simple as it is, and beautiful in its simplicity, could only have been...
Category: Articles
Fishing Cobles
STAITHES, YORKSHIRE. — The cobles which were out fishing on the afternoon of the 4th January were overtaken by a thick fog and at about 3.30 a boat with a crew of five men out off from the shore to assist them. At 5.15, as darkness was...
Drink and Be Generous!
Drink and be... generous! Each year customers of 'The Olde Coffee House' and the 'Star and Garter' public houses in London's Soho have organised 'Drunk-Aid', a gentle stroll around 20 pubs in the area in the space... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Aeroplane (21)
JULY 9TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE.
An aeroplane had crashed in the sea, but only oil was found. - Rewards, £11 5s. 6d..
St. Joseph
Stornoway and Barra Island, Hebrides.— On the night of the 17th-18th October the Norwegian steamer St. Joseph, of Tonsberg, ran aground on the Grey Rocks, in the Sound of Mull. A whole N.W. gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea, and snow...
A Vessel
A telephone message had in the meantime been sent to Whitelink Bay, notifying a vessel in distress, and the Coxswain of the Life-boat stationed at that place at once launched the Three Brothers and proceeded to the scene of the accident. She...
Chart Key
1 - No. 1100 R.A.F. Marine Craft Unit.
2 - R.N. Whirlwinds from station flight available for S.A.R. duty from 08.00 hours to sunset.
3 - Coastal Command Shackletons available for long range S.A.R.
Category: Charts
Fly, of Whitby
On the night of the 2nd November, at 10 P.M., blowing a heavy gale from the north, signals of distress were seen from Lowestoft: the life-boat was at once launched through a heavy surf, and pro- ceeded under sail to the spot, where the...