LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Old Hunter
At 2.15 A.M. on the 20th February, during a strong N.N.W. gale and very heavy surf, the Life-boat Maude Pickup was launched to a vessel in distress off Uossall Point. She proceeded—a tug towing her part of the way—in the face of the gale...
Sea Victor and Prairie Schooner
Exhausted yachtsmen BRONZE MEDAL THE YACHT Sea Victor, built in Germany during the 1930s, had sailed from Exmouth on the morning of Friday May 2, 1986, on passage to Guernsey. By the evening of the following day after a rough crossing the...
Hard Graft And Glamour
Hard graft & glamour Her remarkable determination and bravery have won Tanni Grey-Thompson international awards and fans – but the sporting idol has her own heroes and heroines, as she explains to Rory Stamp ‘The weather was horrible,’...
Category: Articles
United States Life-Saving Service
THE Annual Report of the operations of the United States Life-Saving Service for the year ended the 30th June, 1894, was issued a few months since from the Gov- ernment Printing Office at Washington, and we learn from it that there are now...
Category: Articles
Boats & Bits
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Category: Advertisement
Dalmaris
At 9.30 A.M. on the 8th February a message was received by telephone stat- j ing that a vessel was in distress off I Buddonness Lighthouse. A strong gale was blowing at the time with a heavy j sea. The motor Life-boat Maria was at...
Sweden: a E Appelberg the 199M Rescue Cruiser Stationed at Gryt Swedish Rescue Craft Often Have to Work In Severe Ice
Sweden: A. E. Appelberg, the 19.9m rescue cruiser stationed at Gryt. Swedish rescue craft often have to work in severe ice.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Large Brig
The Ramsgate life-boat has been so frequently off to the Goodwin Sands, towed by the harbour tug, in reply to night signals of distress from the floating light-vessels moored off those fatal shoals, that we cannot attempt to describe...
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Arranmore, Co. Donegal. At seven o'clock on the evening of the 29th of January, 1961, the honorary secretary was informed that a sick woman on the island was in need of medical treat- ment. As there was no doctor on the island and it was...