LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Norwegian Motor Ship Oslo Fjord, and British Officer
BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT TYNEMOUTH DECEMBER 1ST AND 8TH.-CULLERCOATS AND TYNEMOUTH, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At 8.50 in the morning the Cullercoats life-boat station received a message from the Tynemouth coastguard that a vessel had...
Life-Boats at Sea for 66 Hours
AT twenty-five minutes past midnight •on the 26th January, 1954, a Washington aircraft of R.A.F. Bomber Command, bound for the Azores, wirelessed that she was in difficulties through icing and that her crew of seven were baling out. The...
Category: Services
A Wellington Bombing Aeroplane (1)
NOVEMBER 8TH. - AITH, SHETLANDS.
A British Wellington bombing aeroplane had come down in the sea, but the life-boat found nothing, and it was learned later that four airmen had got ashore during the darkness in their rubber...
Painting Life-Boats. General Rules
PAINTING LIFE-BOATS.
General Rules.
1. IT will be desirable, that in or about the month of May in each year, or as soon as fine summer weather shall have fairly set in, and the exercise for the current...
Category: Articles
Relief Fleet -D Class British Diver Hi C Class British Diver Iv
Two new inshore lifeboats funded by the British Sub Aqua club were named and dedicated at a special ceremony on 24 October. This is believed to be the first 'double ceremony' for inshore lifeboats.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 1st Oct., 1874 -. ; THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., Chairman of the Institution, in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of One previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Corre- spondence, and Wreck...
Category: Committee
The Southwold Life-Boats, 1840-1916 (Continued from Page 167). By Ernest R. Cooper, Hon Secretary
ANOTHER distressing wreck occurred just to the north of the town, on Sunday morning, the 13th January, 1895, when, after a heavy S.E. by S.
gale all night with snow squalls, the brig James and Eleanor, of Shields, was seen...
Category: Articles
The S.S Hawkwood
GOLD MEDAL SERVICE AT HARTLEPOOL JANUARY 26TH. - HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM, AND TEESMOUTH, YORKSHIRE. At 6.55 in the morning word came from the coastguard that he had seen rockets from a vessel off Seaton Carew. The life-boat was called out at once...
Telegraph, of Port Issac
On the 8th De- cember, the sloop Telegraph, of Port Isaac, was seen stranded on the Doom Bar Sands.
While a strong gale was blowing from the N., with heavy squalls, the " City of Bristol" life-boat, the Albert...
Mail, of Alloa
On the 14th De- cember, during a gale from the S.W., a vessel was seen in distress off Looe Island.
The life-boat Oxfordshire stationed there j was quickly launched through a heavy surf | to her assistance, and...