LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Whitby's New Tyne Class Lifeboat City of Sheffield
Whitby's new Tyne class lifeboat City of Sheffield at her naming ceremony on 28 July 1989. Alongside her is the station's D class inflatable and in the background one of the town's former lifeboats Mary Ann Hepworth. Inset: HRH... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Providence Waisa
The valuable life-boat, the Bradford, on this Station, in conjunction with the steam-tug Aid, put out, on the 23rd December, during a strong N.E. gale, to the rescue of the crew of the ship Providence, of Waisa, which was totally wrecked on...
Esk, of Montrose
The North Briton life-boat at Donna Nook brought ashore 6 men from the schooner Esk, of Montrose, which had gone ashore on the sands off Donna Nook.
Your Letters
Any information? I am researching the disaster which overtook HM Submarine Thetis in Liverpool Bay on 1 June 1939. At the time, it was the world's worst submarine loss in which 99 men perished.
If any readers have...
Category: Correspondence
The Painting Presented to John Dare
The painting presented to John Dare on his retirement as coxswain after 31 years service depicts the Arun City of Plymouth during a service to a yacht at Wembury Rocks.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
13 Lives Rescued at Ramsey.
The bronze medal foi gallantry has been awarded to Coxswain John Cornish, of Ramsey, Isle of Man, and its thanks on vellum to the acting motor mechanic, for rescuing thirteen lives from an Aberdeen trawler which had gone ashore in a Tery...
Category: Articles
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
ISLE OF WHITHORN, N.B.—On the re- presentation of Divisional Officer, C. W. M. S. McKERLIE, Esq., of the Coast-guard, and the recommendation of the Inspector of Life-boats, the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a life-boat station on...
Category: Articles
Lacon's Safety Plan for Lowering a Ship's Boats at Sea
WHILST we are doing all in our power to guard our coasts with life-boats ready to save life in the event of a vessel being stranded on our shores, we must not lose sight of the fact that the greatest loss of life among our own countrymen,...
Category: Articles
Resolutions Passed at the Annual General Meeting for 1897
THE RIGHT Hon. G. J. GOSCHEN, M.P., FIRST LORD OF THE ADMIRALTY, rs THE CHAIR.
Moved by The Eight Hon. a.
J. GOSCHEN, M.P., First Lord of the Admiralty.
Seconded by Sir COURTENAY BOYLE...
Category: Meetings