LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Bosphorus
GEEENORE, Co. LOOTH.—On the 3rd April, about 4.30 P.M., the Coastguard observed two steamers approachingCarlingford Lough from seaward, but not by the proper channel. The keepers of the Haulbowline Lighthouse therefore hoisted a signal and...
Royal Helmsman:
Royal helmsman: Prince Michael ( Kent aboard Huv/ini; Island's Atlantic 21 lifeboat. The Prince had e presseil n wish (f nM&r a private visit to a lifeboat station and in May his wish wax fulfilled -lien Selsey'.s 47fl Tyne... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Barrus
Mariner doesn't just promise reliability.
It proves it! If you're considering buying an outboard, whatever the size, you'll have noticed that almost every manufacturer promises greater reliability as an...
Category: Advertisement
Notes of the Quarter
THE variety of services performed by life-boats and the variety of vessels which life-boats help have been clearly illustrated during the past quarter.
The first ten services for the month of May, which are recorded on...
Category: Articles
Mourne Lass
BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT MARYPORT OCTOBER 9TH. - MARYPORT, CUMBERLAND. During the afternoon a strong southerly wind was blowing. Towards the end of the afternoon it veered to west-north-west, growing rapidly stronger, and just before dark it...
G.C.B.
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—In the morn- ing of the 9th of December, 1948, a strong southerly gale was blowing.
At 8.35 a barge was seen to be in diffi- culty three-quarters of a mile west of the pier, and the motor life-boat...
Life-Boat As Ambulance
Shortly before 10 o'clock in the evening of 18th April last, just as the s.s. Clanwood, of Sunderland, was leaving Hartlepool for Ghent, with a cargo of coal, a gas explosion occurred on board.
The weather was fine with...
Category: Articles
Aberdeen's Severn Class Lifeboat Bon Accord.
Coxswain Rod McGillivray (far left) and the lifeboat crew at the naming ceremony for Aberdeen's Severn class lifeboat Bon Accord.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Converted Ship's Boat St. David
Girvan, Ayrshire.—At 10.45 on the night of the 14th of July, 1952, infor- mation was received from the JBallan- trae coastguard that signals had been reported from a small boat near Lendalfoot, and the life-boat crew were assembled. The...
The Bull Lightvessel
Humber, Yorkshire. At 9.20 on the morning of the 5th May, 1961, the Humber Conservancy told the cox- swain that a man in the Bull lightvessel had been injured and asked if the life- boat would land him because the weather was too bad for the...