LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Overladen and Unseaworthy Ships
THE Loss OF THE UTOPIA.
THE loss of a fine ship of 1,000 tons or more, with a valuable cargo on board, is- so frequent an occurence now-a-days, and yet the aggregate of such losses forms so small a per-centage to the...
Category: Articles
Naming Ceremonies: Falmouth Tynemouth Campbeltown Holyhead and Harwich
Elizabeth Ann, Falmouth EXACTLY AT 2.30 pm on Tuesday June 10, two RNAS Culdrose helicopters streaming RNLI flags flew past the Customs House Quay, Falmouth, thus raising the curtain on the first of the 1980 lifeboat naming...
Category: Inaugurations
Net results
Harvesting the fruit of the sea has been a way of life since the first hunter–gatherers left their footprints in the muds of time – and it’s close to the heart of the RNLI too
The earliest of...
Category: Articles
Rosita
HARWICH.— On the 6th January, at about 7.30 A.M., a brigantine was seen ashore on the Ealliday Sands with a flag of distress flying. In a short time she drifted on to Pye Sand, where the masts were cut away. The Life-boat Springwell...
Lifeboat Classified
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Category: Advertisement
Survivors from the Ferry Laerling Are Landed from Lerwick's Arun Class Lifeboat Soldian.
Survivors from the ferry Laerling are landed from Lerwick's Arun class lifeboat Soldian. Photo Ian Leask. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lifeboat Classified
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Category: Advertisement
Telford South Branch
Dogged determination shows on the face of Elsa the Great Dane. She (along with her owner Rex Bolton, honorary treasurer of Telford South branch,), is on her way to completing the 12 kilometre Telford charity trek and raising £57 in... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
GOURDON, N.B.—On the invitation of the local residents, a Life-boat Station has been formed by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION at Gourdon, a fishing vil- lage about 12 miles north of Montrose.
Shipwrecks are said to be...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Services
ON THURSDAY April 8, the honorary secretary of St Ives lifeboat station was down at the boathouse in the late afternoon when, at 1628, he saw a 16ft sailing dinghy leave harbour with two young men and two youths on...
Category: Services