LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Smack
Singularly enough, the services of the Life-boat were again called into requisition, after an interval of three days had elapsed, making the third time she had been actively engaged in the course of a week.
A small open,...
Corbon, of Newcastle
Early on the morning of the 7th April, 1866, signals of distress were seen by the beachmen in the direction of the Cockle Sand. The weather was hazy, with a strong breeze blowing from E.N.E.
The Birmingham No. 2 life-boat,...
From "Roundabout Horses."
THE Institution has received from a fair-ground in North London a gift of £2 sent to it " for the life-boat orphans," from the " steam galloping roundabout horses.".
Category: Donations
Fiona
Swanage, Dorset - At 1.19 p.m. on 2ist June, 1967, information was received that a cabin cruiser had broken down one mile south of Hopelake and that the crew of two were signalling for assistance. The life-boat R.L.P. was launched at 1.26 in...
Whitby's 44Ft Waveney Lifeboat the White Rose of Yorkshire
Whitby's 44ft Waveney lifeboat The White Rose of Yorkshire at sea for the Tyne Tees TV current affairs programme 'Briefing' on the amalgamated Tyne Tees Coastguard area. The programme was screened during the first week in... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Alexander
CARDIGAN.—:During a gale from the S.W. on the 9th February the schooner Alexander, of Beaumaris, bound from Port Dinorwic for Carmarthen with a cargo of slates, ran for Cardigan Bay, and brought up off the Black Rocks outside the...
Young Talent:
Young talent: this painting was adjudged the winner out of 7,000 entries in a young people's competition organised by Sealink British Ferries as part of last summer's Safe at Sea appeal which raised £150,000 towards a new... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Friday, 27th August, 1937.
PAID £13,874 lls. 7d. for the total charges of the Institution during the month, in- cluding rewards for services, payments for the construction of life-boats, life-boathouses and slipways,...
Category: Committee
The Minesweeper Erimo
FEBRUARY 22ND. - THE MUMBLES, GLAMORGANSHIRE. At 11.18 A.M. information was received from the coastguard that the minesweeper Erimo had struck a mine about one and a half miles off the Mumbles, and was flying distress signals. A fresh S.E....
Strathrye (1)
Lerwick, Shetland*, and Stromness, Orkneys.—llth January. The steam trawler Strathrye, of Aberdeen, with a crew of nine, sent out a wireless message that she was leaking and in danger of sinking at about 10 P.M. on the llth January. The...