LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Below; Hoylake Lifeboat Lady of Hilbre With the Royal Navy Helicopter
Below; Hoylake lifeboat LadyofHitbre with the Royal Navy helicopter. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Francois Marie of Caen
On the 10th November, during a gale at E., the Life- boat Herbert Ingram assisted to save the brig Franfoise Marie, of Caen, and the barque Die Sehwalbe, of Rostock, both of which vessels were in. a greatly distressed condition off Skegness....
The Motor Fishing Boats Venture and Undaunted
MORE FISHING BOATS IN PERIL Thurso, Caithness-shire.—Just before midnight on the night of the 25th of April, 1947, anxiety was felt for the safety of the local motor fishing boats Venture and Undaunted which had not returned. A strong...
Broughton
ARKLOW.—The Coxswain of the Out Pensioner Life-boat, of the NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION, stationed at Arklow, makes the following report of the circumstances attending the wreck of the barque Broughton, of Swansea, on the Irish coast, and...
S.S. Empire Kingsley, of Greenock and Escort Vessel
MARCH 22ND. - SENNEN COVE, CORNWALL.
At 3.40 in the afternoon an explosion was heard and it was seen that a vessel had been torpedoed about seven miles northwest of the life-boat station. A moderate east-south-east wind...
Safety at Sea With Pyrotechnics-Part 1 Choosing the Right Distress Signals
WITH the present boom in the yachting and boating industry rising steadily each year, as more and more people seek and enjoy pleasurable pastimes afloat, there is also a growing anxiety from the marine rescue associations generally about the...
Category: Articles
Mrs. Walter, of Southampton
Mrs. Walter, of Southampton, died in April, only a month after she had resigned the Honorary Secretaryship of the Southampton Branch, on account of ill-health and advancing years. She was in her eighty-seventh year....
Category: Obituaries
Annual Meeting
THE Hundred and First Annual General Meeting of the Governors of THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION was held at Caxton Hall, Westminster, on Friday, 20th March, at 2.45 P.M., the Right Hon. Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister, K.B.E., M.C., M.P...
Category: Meetings
Princess of Wales
The Stockport Sun- day Schools Life-boat was called out on the 3rd July, on the barque Princess of Wales, of Glasgow, going ashore about a mile south-east of Dundalk Lighthouse, and was enabled to bring the vessel's crew of 16 men safely...
Raylight, of Greenock
Campbeltown, Argyllshire - At 10.32 p.m. on nth December, 1966, it was noted that a vessel was sounding her siren continuously near the entrance to the Campbeltown loch. The life-boat City of Glasgow II left her moorings at 10.52 in a fresh...