Campbeltown, Argyllshire.—At 6.25 in the morning of the 28th of February, 1952, a life-boatman picked up on his wireless set a message from the motor fishing boat Pride o' the Clyde, of Tarbert, that she was aground at Skipness Point and...
At the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION, held at St. Martin's Town Hall, Charing Cross Road, on Saturday, the 18th day of March, 1899, the Eight Hon.
the Earl of DERBY, K.G-., G.C.B.,...
Category: Annual Reports
WHITBY.—At 11.45 A.M. on the 6th December, during a strong gale from the E.N.E. and a heavy sea, with snow, the brig Star of Hope, of and for Newcastle from Dieppe, in ballast, became embayed between Whitby and Upgang Rocks. She then ran for...
ON the 1st January the Motor Life-boat at Stromness, in the Orkneys, performed a fine service which illustrates very clearly the value of motor-power. At 9.15 A.M. the news was received at Stromness from Birsay that a vessel was in distress...
Category: Medals
A GREAT loss has, within the last few weeks, fallen on the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and the Life-boat Cause has been deprived of a strong supporter and constant friend by the death of ALGERNON GEORGE PERCY, Sixth Duke of...
Category: Articles
Cruise liner in crisis Six lifeboats launched on 6 May 2006 to the help of The Calypso (pictured). The 135m liner and 708 passengers were 15 miles south of Beachy Head, East Sussex, when fire broke out. Tyne classes MaxAitken III from...
IT is hoped in future to publish each year in the summer number of The Life-boat, the record of the services of foreign life-boats to British vessels during the previous year. The record for 1932 is as follows : The United State* of...
Category: Services
Below: (left) The boathouse provides plenty of room for all three of the station's lifeboats and (right) all the necessary launching equipment. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs