LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Bangor Co Down:
Bangor, Co Down: The scene at the waterfront when, on Friday June 15, the dedication of the station's new D class inflatable lifeboat took place together with the official opening of the lifeboathouse recently built by North Down Borough... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
High Seas
More views of RNLI lifeboat stations from the air.
St Bees - North Division St Bees lifeboat station is just to the south of St Bees South Head, and faces to the west, towards the Isle of Man.
The shallow...
Category: Articles
Pottering for Cash
Pottering for cash The Potteries Marathon, the second largest marathon in Great Britain, is attended by entrants from all over the British Isles and abroad. Mr Adrian Lucyk, a regular runner dedicated his run on 1 June 1996 to the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Temperance, of Belfast
On the 4th January, at day- light, signals of distress were observed from three vessels ashore in Abergele Bay, North Wales. The life-boat proceeded as soon as possible to the spot and rescued the crew of 4 men from the schooner Temperance...
Form, of Liverpool
On the same evening during a heavy gale from the N.W., the Life-boat Princess of Wales on this station put off to the brigantine Form, of Liverpool, in reply to her signals of distress, and landed her crew of 6 men. The vessel was in the...
Lifeboat Services
TANKER FIRE VISIBLE FROM FIVE MILES AWAY Sixteen seamen taken off blazing oil tanker The collision which involved a tanker off the Humber estuary on 17 September 1989, and the subsequent fire, made front-page news throughout the country, and...
Category: Services
Zoe
On the 24th Aug.
the brigantine Zoe, of this place, was ob- served to be lying at anchor off Cooley Point, about nine miles from the Life-boat station, in an apparently disabled state,, she having lost both her masts. It...
Harriette
NEWQUAY, CORNWALL.—On the 8th August the Life - boat Pendoclc Neale rescued the crew, consisting of two men, of the smack Earriette, of Barnstaple, bound from Swansea for Hayle with coal.
The vessel had gone ashore on the...
Braes, of Moray
NEWBIGGIN, NORTHUMBERLAND. — The schooner Braes of Moray, of Peterhead, was observed ashore on the Out Carrs rocks, at about 6 A.M., on the 26th November. The Life-boat William Hopkinson of Srighouse was at once got out, several of the...
Europe
RAMSGATE.—On the 3rd April, 1882, 11 A.M., the Bradford Life-boat proceeded, to the East Goodwin Light vessel, which was firing signal guns. The wind was blowing a strong breeze from the E. and there was a thick fog. On arriving at the...