LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Suevic
THE LIZARD, CADGWITH, COVERACK, and PORTHLEVEN, CORNWALL.—A disas- ter of such magnitude as seldom occurs on the coast of the United Kingdom took place off Cornwall on the night of the 17th March. Thanks to the prompt action of the...
The S.S. Suevic (1)
THE LIZARD, CADGWITH, COVERACK, and PORTHLEVEN, CORNWALL.—A disas- ter of such magnitude as seldom occurs on the coast of the United Kingdom took place off Cornwall on the night of the 17th March. Thanks to the prompt action of the...
May (1)
REDCAR, YORKSHIRE. At 6.30 in the morning of the 30th of March, 1946, Saltburn coastguard informed the honorary secretary of the life-boat station that a motor vessel was reported ashore on the Salt Scar rocks.
A light...
Category: Services
People and Places
A TUNE FAMILIAR TO MILLIONS greeted Jan Harvey as she arrived at RNLI headquarters to draw the 33rd national lottery on April 30; it was the theme to Howard's Way, the BBC TV series in which she stars. Miss Harvey had kindly travelled to...
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Contents
THE LIFE-BOAT (Est. 1852) All editorial material submitted for consideration with a view to publication in the Journal should be addressed to The Editor, THE LIFE-BOAT, 42 Grosvenor Gardens, London, S.W.1 (Tel. 01-730 0031). Photographs...
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Star of Victory
Wick, Caithness-shire.—Shortly be- fore 9 A.M. on the 25th October, 1939, the coastguard reported that the trawler Star of Victory, of Aberdeen, was ashore off Keiss in Sinclair Bay.
A light N.N.E. wind was blowing. The sea...
Saving Life from Shipwreck
IN the Wreck Returns presented by the Board of Trade every year to Parliament, it is recorded that, from the very nature of the circumstances, the largest number of lives saved from founderings and collisions in the seas of the British Isles...
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Honorary Workers of the Institution. No. 7. Major Herbert Edgar Burton, O.B.E., R.E., Hon. Superintendent of the Tynemouth Motor Life-Boat
No. 7. Major Herbert Edgar Button, O.B.E., RE., Hon. Superintendent of the Tynemouth Motor Life-boat.
No county in Great Britain has a finer record of Life-boat service than Northumberland. It was at Bamburgh, in...
Category: Articles
The Screw Flat Tal Y Fan
PORTHDINLLAEN.—During a very heavy gale from the W.N.W., at about midday on the 14th October, a signal of distress was shown by the screw flat Tal y fan, of Liverpool, anchored in the bay. The Life-boat George Moore went off to her and...
Lifeboat Services November December 1984 January and February 1985
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire 54ft Arun: January 29 Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: November 8 Aberystwyth, Dyfed C class inflatable: November 21, December 15 and 24 Aith, Shetland 52ft Burnett: November 13 Aldeburgh, Suffolk 37ft bin Rather:...
Category: Services