LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Duke of Kent's
The Duke of Kent's first visit on Orkney on May 10 was to Longhope where he laid a wreath at the memorial to the eight lifeboatmen who lost their lives in the disaster of 1969. The Memorial was unveiled by HM The Queen Mother in... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Adventures of a Life-Boat Flotilla
ON 15th April, 1909, a flotilla of three Life-boats, in two of which motor engines had been installed, were despatched by the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION from the London Docks en route by sea for Thurso...
Category: Articles
The Wreck Register and Chart for 1868
As the year rolls round, and in the midst of great storms, this sad tidings of disaster; at sea, the Wreck Register, makes its ap- pearance, and brings afresh to our recollec- tion the scenes of desolation witnessed on too many parts of our...
Category: Annual Reports
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 7th October, 1886.
Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., M.P., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the Minutes of the pre- vious Meeting. Also read those of the Finance and Correspondence, and Wreck...
Category: Committee
The Use of Oil to Reduce Breaking Seas
IN 1914 supplies of oil were issued to eight Stations with a view to finding out the best way of using it to reduce breaking seas, and in 1920, as a result of these experiments, all Stations were supplied with canvas bags, pierced with holes...
Category: Articles
Adieu Va
— During a whole W.S.W. gale and heavy sea on the 27th October a telegram was received from the Clontarf Coastguard, stating that two vessels were showing signals of distress. As both vessels were in dangerous positions, about one mile north...
(Below) the Race Horse Shore Line; Her Name Has No Connection With the Rnli But Her Owners Are Lifeboat Supporters
(Below) The race horse Shore Line; her name has no connection with the RNLI but her owners are lifeboat supporters.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
British Oak and Don Pat
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 8.34 P.M.
on the 20th March, 1939, the R.N.
Shore Signal Station reported that rockets had been seen at Warden Point, coming from the Nore and Mouse...
Chr. Christensen
Signals of distress called out the Life- boat Forster Fawsett at 4.40 A.M. on the 16th February. She found the steamer Chr. Ghristensen, of Copenhagen, ashore on the south end of the Longstone Island, where she had stranded whilst bound to...
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