LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Life-Boat Transporting-Carriage
The Life-boat transporting-carriage is a very important auxiliary to the boat.
Every Life-boat, except a few of the larger size, is provided with a carriage, on which she is kept in the boat-house ready for immediate...
Category: Articles
Our New Patron
His Majesty King George the Fifth and President in 1902, His Majesty has has graciously consented to become never ceased to lend his powerful and Patron in succession to His late Majesty, and the Committee feel greatly encouraged by this...
Category: Articles
Caribbean Queens
Caribbean queens St Agnes ladies guild won top prizes with their Cornish Caribbean display in the local village carnival recently - receiving cups for the best charity group float and the best music and dance.
The carnival... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Charles
SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT WHITBY FEBRUARY 3RD. - WHITBY, AND SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE.
At nine o’clock at night the coastguard telephoned to the life-boat station at Whitby that a vessel was ashore near Saltwick. The tide was...
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Category: Advertisement
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN.—Intelligence having been received that a vessel was in distress about three miles 8. of Mang- hold Head, during a S.E. wind on the 5th Oct. 1886, the Life-boat Two Sisters was launched at about 8.30 A.M., and was towed...
Category: Services
S.S. Dentonia Park
SEPTEMBER 14TH. - WALMER, KENT.
At seven in the evening a message was received that the S.S. Dentonia Park needed medical aid. The pilot aboard had collapsed.
A south wind was blowing, with driving rain...
The S.S. Seasilver
Apple dor e, Devon.—At 4.38 in the afternoon of the 4th of April, 1948, the coastguard reported that the s.s. Sea silver, of Newcastle, bound for Amster- dam, appeared to have her engine broken down, off the Bar Buoy, and needed a pilot. A...
Golden Grain
Tynemouth, Northumberland. At 3 p.m. on 5th May, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the fishing vessel Amy Johnson was about to land the body of a man who had been dragged overboard by nets, with another fisherman,...
Georgina
PORTHOUSTOCK, CORNWALL. At 11 P.M., on the 22nd February, the brigantine Georgina, of Portmadoc, bound from London, to Cork, with a cargo of railway sleepers, struck on the Levellers Rocks to the north-eastward of this place. The night was...