LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Life-Boat Stations on the Dutch Coast
Total: 49 Life-boats, including 2 Steam Life-boats and 5 Motor Life-boats, and 27 Line-throwing Apparatus.
Category: Charts
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT.—The new Life-boat Queen Victoria, sent by the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION to Bembridge, and named after Her Majesty THE QUEEN by H.E.H. the Duchess of EDINBURGH, on the 25th of July last, is a beautiful...
Category: Articles
Zipporah
RUNSWICK, YORKSHIRE.—At about 4 A.M.
on the 30th August, while the wind was blowing strongly from the N.E., accompanied by a heavy sea, the schooner Zipporah, of Scarborough, which had been on the beach on the previous day...
Therese Emile Yuon
Howth, Co. Dublin.—At 5.40 on the afternoon of the 23rd of February, 1955, the trawler Therese Emile Yuon, of Concarneau, France, whose engine had broken down, was seen to break adrift from a Howth fishing boat, which was towing her towards...
Coxswain Albert Brown of Workington
Coxswain Albert Brown of Workington joined the lifeboat crew in 1971, becoming coxswain in 1972. He was awarded the bronze medal in 1974 for the rescue of seven people from the fishing vessel Kia Ora, dragging her anchor half mile east of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Overall, Blue Peter Lifeboats Have Launched More Than 4,300
Overall, Blue Peter lifeboats have launched more than 4,300 times, saving the lives of 1,028 people.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
(Left) at the New York Reception Held at the Statler-Hilton Hotel (I to R) Colonel John Rice Executive Vice-President New York Council Navy League of Us Austin Volk Regional President Navy League Nicholas Ludington Afras Committee Memb
(Left) At the New York reception, held at the Statler-Hilton Hotel, (I. to r.) Colonel John Rice, Executive Vice-President, New York Council, Navy League of US, Austin Volk, Regional President, Navy League, Nicholas Ludington, AFRAS... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Anmara
Long Search THE STERN TRAWLER Anmara and her crew of three were reported overdue from Scarborough on the evening of May 21, 1987 and a search was organised by Humber Coastguard, to begin at first light on the following day.
Harmonie
ST. ANDREW'S, N.B.—On the 5th March, at about 1 P.M., during one of the most violent storms which has visited this coast for years, and amid blinding showers of snow, a schooner was observed being driven before the fury of the gale...
Ceres
PORTHOUSTOCK, CORNWALL. On the 22nd November, at about 8 P.M., signals of distress were seen off Porthoustock. The Life-boat Mary Ann Story was immediately launched and proceeded to the wreck, reaching the Manacles Rocks at about 8.30. The...