LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Rosstrevor
GREENORE.—On the 2nd March the steamer Rosstrevor, of Dublin, belonging to the London and North Western Railway Company, left Greenore at about 6 P.M., bound for Holyhead, with passengers and a general cargo. She had proceeded a little...
Coastguard Shield
Mr. Anthony Grant, Parliamentary Undersecretary of State, Department of Trade and Industry, presented the Coastguard Shield for the most meritorious wreck service of 1970/71 to the Peterhead C.R.C. in July. The award was made for the rescue...
Category: Awards
New Baltic Exchange Life-Boat
The new life-boat at Salcombe, which was given the name The Baltic Exchange to commemorate the support received by the Institution over many years from the Baltic Exchange, was named by Mrs. H. M. Whithouse, the widow of a former Chairman of...
Category: Inaugurations
Uruguay
On the 26th June the Kingsdowne Life- boat went off, in reply to signals of distress from the Light-ships on the Good- win Sands, to the steamer Uruguay, of Liverpool, which had gone on the Sands, and remained alongside the vessel until she...
William Henry
RHYL, NORTH WALKS. — At about 2 A.M.
on the 18th November, the Coastguard on duty observed a vessel in a dangerous position opposite Rhyl, tat making no signals of distress. At about 3 o'clock the vessel appeared to be...
Alroy
At 5.45 A.M. on the 4th September the Coast- guard received a telephonic message from the Gunfleet Light-house, stating that a schooner was on the sands.
Without delay the Life-boat James Stevens No. 14 proceeded under...
Laura Williamson
In very wet and cold weather the Life-boat James Stevens No. 6 was engaged during the whole of the 18th March in assisting to save a vessel which had run on to a reef of rocks under Beachy Head. At 7.30 A.M. the vessel was sighted, and...
A Dinghy (5)
GIRL RESCUED BY SPEED BOAT North Sunderland, Northumberland.
At 4.25 on the afternoon of the 10th June, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a dinghy had been seen to capsize off Newton Link house. A...
An Eye for Detail In Lifeboat Design
LOOKING AT a lifeboat when housed, perhaps the first design detail to catch the eye is the propeller and its tunnel.
Each of the twin propellers is housed in a tunnel built into the stern, the principal aims being shallow...
Category: Articles
A Magnificent Group of Services. 19th-21st November, 1916
SELDOM, if ever, has there been con- centrated within three days of Life-boat work a more splendid series of achieve- ments than those which are briefly described below. They were charac- terised throughout by heroic effort in the face of...
Category: Services