LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
SWANAGE, DORSET.—In the month of January, 1875, a shipwreck took place on the Peveril Ledge, off this place, and it was only with difficulty, and by incurring much risk, that the crew were saved through the exertions of the Coast- guardmen...
Category: Articles
Maria
The schooner Maria, of Fowey, whilst bound from Charlestown to Ghent, with a cargo of china clay, attempted to put into New- haven Harbour on the 12th February.
A strong southerly gale was blowing with a heavy sea, and the...
REMEMBERING PRINCESS VICTORIA
31 January 1953. A storm is building that will cause one of the UK’s worst natural disasters. Despite the gale warnings, at 7.45am the British Railways ferry Princess Victoria begins her regular passage across the Irish Sea. She will never...
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Naming Ceremony at Troon
THE naming ceremony took place at Troon, Ayrshire, on 5th October, 1968, of 44-007 Connel Elizabeth Cargill which was provided by a gift from W. A.
Cargill Charitable Trust. Mrs. Connel Leggett, of Edinburgh, eldest grand-...
Category: Inaugurations
Spes Melior II
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.—At 1.20 early on the morning of the 1st of May, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel had gone ashore at North Head.
At 1.45 the life-boat Julia Park Barry, of Glasgow was launched. There...
An Aeroplane (20)
MAY 22ND. - BARMOUTH, MERIONETHSHIRE.
An aeroplane had crashed in the sea, but her crew of two were saved by a Royal Marine craft. - Rewards, £5 6s. 6d..
The Old Polkerris (Cornwall) Life-Boat Now "Grey Fox," of Lyme Regis
The Old Polkerris (Cornwall) Life-Boat Now "Grey Fox" of Lyme Regis. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
And Pilotage (Above) All Come Within the Province of Trinity House
And Pilotage (Above) All Come Within The Province Of Trinity House. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
1860: the Launching of Silloth's First Lifeboat Angela and Hannah And
I860: The launching of Silloth's first lifeboat, Angela and Hannah, and . . .. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Superintendent Coxswain Brian Bevan of Humber Lifeboat Station Opened the 1980 London Boat Show
Superintendent Coxswain Brian Bevan of Humber lifeboat station opened the 1980 London Boat Show.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs