LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The American Steamer Byron Darnton, of Baltimore (2)
MARCH 16TH - 17TH. - CAMPBELTOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE, GIRVAN, AYRSHIRE, AND PORTPATRICK, WIGTOWNSHIRE. Soon after eleven o’clock on the night of the 16th the Southend coastguard reported to the Campbeltown life-boat station that a ship was ashore...
Girls rescued from chilly loch
Two young girls playing in a dinghy on 19 May found themselves drifting into open water and jumped overboard to try to swim to shore.
A honeymooning couple spotted them struggling and called the Coastguard. Loch Ness...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Services
BERWICK-ON-TWEED.—On the 2nd of September a strong gale and heavy sea having sprung up, two large herring-boats, in attempting to get into Berwick Harbour, got to leeward of it, and went on shore. A steam-tug proceeded to their assistance,...
Category: Services
"Prudential." Naming Ceremony of the New Ramsgate Motor Life-Boat
Naming Ceremony of the new Ramggate Motor Life-boat.
THE naming ceremony of this, the first of a new type of Motor Life-boat, took place on 14th April last in the Inner Harbour at Ramsgate. The full cost of the Boat,...
Category: Articles
Motor Life-Boat at Boulogne
IN August, 1825, seventeen months after the founding of the Royal National Life-boat Institution, a life-saving j society was formed at Boulogne, with the title " La Societe Humaine et des Naufrages de Boulogne." It was the first...
Category: Articles
Durdham
New Tyne keeps disabled tug off Devon rocks Salcombe - South West Division The qualities of Salcombe's new Tyne class lifeboat Baltic Exchange II were put to the test on 21 October 1988 in a service which led to the coxswain, Frank Smith...
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
The Danish Fishing Vessels Clupea, Rosslau, Anne Stranne and Kami
FOUR BOATS AND CREWS SAVED IN deteriorating weather conditions on 8th November, 1971, the 70-foot steel life-boat Grace Paterson Ritchie, stationed at Kirkwall, Orkney, went to the aid of the Danish fishing vessel Clupea which had broken...
Services of Life-Boats
BRIDLINGTON. — On the 22nd of March last, at 3 A.M., the wind blowing strong from E.N.E. at the time,' and a heavy sea running, signals of distress were observed from Bridlington Quay on board the schooner Albion, which had on the...
Category: Services
The Royal Bank of Scotland Plc
A FFTNFTT V WTT W AFFINITY WITH DO YOU USE A CREDIT CARD? If you do, or you are considering re-arranging your finances in any way you could be helping directly to fund the RNLI with every transaction you make.
Not only will...
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