LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Fire at Cowes
The remains of the Watson cabin motor life-boats from Yarmouth, Isle of Wight and Selsey, Sussex. Nothing is left forward but the keels, deadwoods and iron floor-straps. On the left can be seen the forward steel bulkhead of the engine-room... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Viking and Loch Maree
AUG. 9TH. - MINEHEAD, SOMERSET.
During the evening a message was received from the Hurlestone Point coastguard that the motor yacht Viking was on fire six miles north of Porlock Weir and that the motor yacht Loch Maree, of...
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Category: Advertisement
Ceremonies
Berwick - Mersey class Joy and Charles Beeby Berwick might be in England - just - but when the day dawned for the town's new Mersey class lifeboat to be named, on 23 March 1993, it was as braw a morning as any in Scotland. The...
Category: Inaugurations
Agricola
FISHGUARD, SOUTH WALES.—While a strong W.N.W. gale was blowing, with sleet, squally weather and a heavy sea, on the 3rd March the Coastguard watchman reported a schooner about five or six miles out, bearing N.N.W. from the look-out house, in...
Lord Alcester
7.40 A.M. on the 21st November the Coastguard reported that a ketch was ashore on the break- water at the entrance to the harbour.
A strong E. gale was blowing at the time with a heavy sea, and the Life- boat Harmar was ...
Birthday Honours
H.M. THE QUEEX has conferred a baronetcy of the United Kingdom on Alderman Cuthbert Lowell Ackroyd, Lord Mayor of London, who has been a member of the Committee of Manage- ment of the Institution since 1950.
Other honours...
Category: Awards
Lisbon
ner, this Life-boat was again called off to another vessel, the brig Lisbon,,vhich, after daylight, was seen to be aground on the same sand. On boarding her, the master and mate were found in an ex- hausted condition, having been in the...
Services of the Life-Boats of the Institution During 1906
1906.
Jan. 2. 10.40 a.m.
„ 3. 10.30a.m.
„ 4. 8. 0 a.m.
„ 4. 8.15 p.m.
„ 5. 8.30 p.m.
„ 6. 10. 0 a.m.
„ 6. 10. 0 a.m...
Category: Services
Station upgrades
Further to our previous coverage of RNLI shoreworks, we can report that the charity is wrapping up its appeal to fund a new boathouse at Exmouth, Devon, now that it has reached its target.
Exmouth’s facilities are much in...
Category: Articles