LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Esso Stockholm
SICK MAN TAKEN OFF SWEDISH TANKER Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 4.27 on the morning of the 2nd June, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the tanker Esso Stockholm had a very sick seaman on board who needed medical attention...
Conference on Safety at Sea
THE fourth International Conference on the Safety of Life at Sea was held at Church House, Westminster, from the 17th of May to the 17th of June, 1960. The three earlier conferences had been held in 1913, 1929 and...
Category: Meetings
Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society
THE Twenty-seventh Annual Meeting of this Institution was held on the 18th June last, at the United Service Institution, Whitehall Yard, Admiral the EARL of SHREWSBURY and TALBOT, C.B., in the unavoidable absence of the DUKE of MARLBOBOUGH,...
Category: Meetings
Life-Boatmen In London (1)
THE gales of the, past winter brought to London the largest number of life- boatmen who have attended the Annual Meeting to receive their medals since this custom was started in 1913.
Fifteen were invited : Coxswain Patrick...
Category: Articles
A New Zealand Lease of Life
Brictlington coxswain Fred Waikington follows in the wake of some former RNLI lifeboats that have travelled some 12,000 miles to a new home in the land of kiwis, sheet), volcanoes... and almost 10,000 miles of coastline.red and Carol...
Category: Articles
The Motor Fishing Vessels Lead Us, The Golden Hope and Success
LIFE-BOAT STANDS BY AT HARBOUR BAR Whitby, Yorkshire. At 7.45 on the evening of the 2nd March, 1962, the coxswain was in radio communication from his own boat with three local motor fishing vessels, which were at sea in deteriorating weather...
The Greek Brig San Spridione, of Galaxide
On the night of the 16th February, the Greek brig San Spiridione, of Galaxide, coal laden, was driven ashore in Tramore Bay, in a south gale. As she made no signals of distress, her dangerous position ^was not seen from the shore until...
A Bodyboard
Surfer Neil Futton was waiting in the water for the next wave to ride and, looking around, noticed a bodyboard floating in the water.
He paddled over and found a man who had stopped breathing. He started to attempt...
The S.S. Vancouver
SEPT. 14TH. - BALLYCOTTON, CO.
CORK. At 2.20 P.M. the civic guard at Cork reported that a man had picked up a wireless S O S call from the S.S. Vancouver City, of Bideford. She was a vessel of about 5,000 tons and had been...
Eastbourne Lifeboat the 37Ft
Launch into south-westerly strong gale, force 9, Sunday March 22: Three progressive photographs of Eastbourne lifeboat, the 37ft 6in Rather Duke of Kent, taken by 16-yearold Matthew Hancock as (left) she launched down her slipway into... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs