LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Rosso, of Stockholm (1)
Montrose, and Broughty Ferry, Angus, Eyemouth, Berwickshire, and Gourdon,Kincardineshire.—At 4.52 in the after- noon of the 7th of March, 1952, the S.S. Rosso, of Stockholm, bound for Sweden from Methie, wirelessed that she was leaking...
A Cheese and Wine Party Organised By South London District Office Together With Eltham Ladies' Guild at the Royal Naval College Greenwich Last November Made a Profit
A cheese and wine party organised by South London District Office together with Eltham ladies' guild at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, last November, made a profit of £905. The photograph shows part of the abundant raffle and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Whippingham
The paddle steamer Whippingham, of South- ampton, while on a pleasure trip from Ryde to Bournemouth on the afternoon of the 5th September, was in difficulties through a defect in the paddle wheels and began to leak, when about six miles...
Cnosa
Penlee, Cornwall.—At 2.30 on the afternoon of the 29th of July, 1957, a message was received that there was an injured man on board the Liberian tanker Cnosa about twenty miles south-east of Bishop's Rock Lighthouse. At three o'clock...
A Converted Ship's Boat
TOW FOR CONVERTED SHIP'S BOAT Barrow, Lancashire. At 10.12 on the night of the 9th June, 1963, the Walney Island lighthouse keeper rang up the coxswain to say that three people in a small boat were signalling with a flag a mile...
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JANUARY 1ST. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE.
Shortly after one in the afternoon, the flag-officer-in-charge, Liverpool, requested the services of a life-boat to land a soldier who was dangerously ill in one of the forts near the...
The Cuban-Registered Refrigerated Carrier Gran Piedra
The St Mary's (Isle of Scilly) lifeboat Robert Edgar pictured while standing by the Cuban-registered refrigerated carrier Gran Piedra off St Agnes on Sunday 16 May 1993.The size of the seas and the severity of the weather can clearly be...
Dismissal of a Life-Boat Crew
IT will be remembered by our Readers that on I the 25th November last the crew of the East- bourne Life-boat performed a very meritorious service. We are alluding to the rescue, under exceptionally trying circumstances, of the crew...
Category: Articles
Lalage
Margate, Kent. At 9.21 on the evening of the 25th of June, 1959, the coastguard informed the coxswain that red flares had been seen in the direction of Margate Sands five miles north-west of Margate. The coxswain had also seen these flares,...
Rosa Alba
ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK.—In response to signals from the Cork Light-ship the Life-boat Aldeburgh was launched at 6.18 P.M. on the 22nd March, in a strong N.N.W. wind and heavy sea. Shortly after she had left, a telephone message arrived reporting...