LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
H.M. Submarine Universal (2)
FEBRUARY 4TH - 6TH. - ST. DAVID’S AND FISHGUARD, PEMBROKESHIRE, AND NEW QUAY, AND ABERYSTWYTH, CARDIGANSHIRE.
H.M. submarine Universal was on her way to the breaker’s yard. Late on the night of the 3rd of February her...
Mercury
The pilot-cutter Providence arrived at Harwich on the 3rd March flying signals denoting that the Life-boat was required.
The steam Life-boat Duke of Northumberland, with the reserve Life-boat in tow, promptly went out, and...
Lena Broden
AUGUST 6TH. - TEESMOUTH, YORKSHIRE. At 1.30 in the afternoon the Swedish Iron Ore Co., Middlesbrough, telephoned that their motor vessel Lena Broden was off that port and needed a pilot. The sea was too heavy for the pilot cutter to put out,...
James Leath
James Leath is a pulling and sailing Norfolk and Suffolk type lifeboat. Strongly built with a heavy iron keel these were extremely stable. The high decks enclosed numerous watertight compart- Q ments to make them very buoyant although not... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
ST. ANDREW'S, FIFESHIRE.—A new lifeboat and transporting-carriage have been placed at St. Andrew's, and a Branch of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has been established there. This boat is on the selfrighting plan adopted by the...
Category: Articles
Rowing Boats
Thames race disaster avertedThe annual Veterans' Head of the River Race ended in chaos on Sunday, 21 March after being hit by gale-force winds and strong tides.
More than 140 boats were participating, with nine crew in...
The S.S. Trinity
Cromarty. — In the afternoon of the llth of November, 1951, the S.S.
Trinity, of Panama, wirelessed that she had been damaged and needed a pilot. She would be off Cromarty that night, and asked for a boat to meet her at...
Contents
Notes of the Quarter 74 Lifeboat Services 77 Volume XUX *M~11TviVipi* 4RO Naming Ceremonies and Dedications 83 Working Together: helicopters and lifeboats 89 Chairman: Lifeboat People 94 THE DUKE OF ATHOLL Director and Secretary: Used...
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Southend 60 Years Ago
Southend 60 years ago As it is October 1998 (date of letter), I thought readers may be interested in some pictures I took in October 1938! The photographs are of Southend lifeboat, Greater London (Civil Service No.3), in action.
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Category: Photographs
Sailor King
Wick, Caithness-shire.—At 3.19 P.M.
on the 3rd July, 1938, the coastguard reported that a herring drifter had gone ashore on Proudfoot Rock, on the north side of Wick Bay. She was the Sailor King, of Lowestoft, bound for...