LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Life-Boat Call In the Pentland
[In every number of The Life-boat there appears after an account of all the effective services in any month the statement: The following life-boats went out on service, but could find no ship in distress, were not needed or could do nothing....
Category: Services
Bookshelf
Lifeboat station histories On A Wave and A Prayer A History of the Youghal Lifeboat Station by Brendan O'Driscoll published by the author at CIR9.50 The port of Youghal (pronounced 'Yawl') on Ireland's beautiful southern...
Category: Articles
Quinquereme
ANCHOR TROUBLE Beaumaris, Anglesey. At 12.50 p.m.
on 3rd May, 1964, the yacht Quinquereme, which had a crew of four, ran aground on the Layan sands. She refloated on the rising tide, but appeared to be in need of help, so...
William Thompson
During a moderate E.S.E. gale on the 1st January signals of distress were observed at 9.30 A.M. on a schooner lying at anchor in Rosslare Bay. The crew of the Life-boat Tom and Jennie were assembled, and in a heavy sea the boat proceeded to...
The S.S. South Coaster
DECEMBER 2lST. - EXMOUTH, DEVON.
At 8.15 in the morning of the 13th of December, the S.S. South Coaster, of Cardiff, ran aground on the eastern end of Pole Sands, west-by-south three-quarters of a mile from Orcombe Point....
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Ramsgate, Kent.—26th October, 1939.
A vessel had been reported as showing blue flares, but nothing was found.— Rewards, £11 14s. 9d..
Awards Presented By Countess Mountbatten
at the Royal Festival Hall on 16 May 1989 [ Bronze Medals for Gallantry Helmsman Alan Clarke, Hunstanton, Norfolk.
On 7 February 1988 the Hunstanton Atlantic 21 class lifeboat Spirit of America took off an injured man from...
Category: Awards
Poole - South Division
Poole - home of RNLI Headquarters - boasts the second largest natural harbour in the world. The station's lifeboats are situated off the quay - just by Poole lifting bridge, shown up in the main photo, on the crown of the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Delila (2)
Aberdeen, and Newburgh, Aberdeenshire.
— When the Aberdeen trawler Roslin was wrecked on the night of the 4th-5th November, 1937, two of her crew of eight were rescued by the Aberdeen motor life-boat.—Rewards, silver second...
Delila (3)
Aberdeen, and Newburgh, Aberdeenshire.
— When the Aberdeen trawler Roslin was wrecked on the night of the 4th-5th November, 1937, two of her crew of eight were rescued by the Aberdeen motor life-boat.—Rewards, silver second...