LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Mail Steamer Banshee
The Thomas Fielden Life-boat was launched at 12.30 AM. on the 14th of January, 1887, to the assistance of the mail-steamer Banshee, of and from Dublin for Holyhead, which had stranded in Towyn Bay during a dense fog. The steamer, which had a...
In Pursuit of a Yacht
A STRONG south-westerly gale was blowing on the Sussex coast on the morning of Sunday, the 8th of August. The sea was very rough and there was a heavy swell.
Just after half past eight the coastguard at Shoreham Harbour saw...
Category: Services
Barrus
Mariner doesn't just promise reliability.
It proves it! If you're considering buying an outboard, whatever the size, you'll have noticed that almost every manufacturer promises greater reliability as an...
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Barrus
Mariner doesn't just promise reliability.
It proves it! If you're considering buying an outboard, whatever the size, you'll have noticed that almost every manufacturer promises greater reliability as an...
Category: Advertisement
Barrus
Mariner doesn't just promise reliability.
It proves it! If you're considering buying an outboard, whatever the size, you'll have noticed that almost every manufacturer promises greater reliability as an...
Category: Advertisement
They Have Now Been Warned
Two men have been fined £2 each at Tobermory for firing a rocket "for fun" over the Island of Tiree, in the Inner Hebrides, on the night of the 3rd of January. The rocket was taken for a distress signal and the Barra Island...
Category: Services
Mischief, of Caernarvon
On the 24th January, during a tremendous hurricane from the S., accompanied by thick showers of snow, the schooner Mis- chief, of Caernarvon, struck on the Parten Stiel Rocks, about a mile and a half to the south of Holy Island. Signals of...
Forest Row Lifeboat Choir Out Carol Singing Last Christmas Conducted By Myfanwy Townsend
Forest Row Lifeboat Choir out carol singing last Christmas, conducted by Myfanwy Townsend. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of Geoffrey Harfield. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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Inflatable searches in 'huge' surf on Cornish coastBude's D class lifeboat often has to launch through heavy surf, but a service on 3 July in exceptional conditions has brought the helmsman Paddy Frost and crew members Jonathan...
Chorzow
DECEMBER 16TH and l7TH. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. At 12.12 in the afternoon the coastguard telephoned that a steamer, off Goring, was going round in circles and sounding her whistle. A strong south-west wind was blowing, with a rough sea....