LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
January 29 1976: British Airways Helicopter Lifts Off Crew of 17 from Trawler Ben Gulvain When With Engine Failure She Had Run Aground Near Aberdeen In Gale Force Winds
January 29, 1976: British Airways helicopter lifts off crew of 17 from trawler Ben Gulvain when, with engine failure, she had run aground near Aberdeen in gale force winds.
photograph by courtesy of Miss I. M.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Shoreboat Services. For Which Rewards Were Given at the September and October Meetings of the Committee of Management
For which Rewards were given at the September and October Meetings of the Committee of Management.
Bunbeg, Co. Donegal.—At about 5 P.M. on the 14th April Thomas Boyle, of Bunbeg, who had come in from Innishinney Island...
Category: Services
A Watson Cabin Life-Boat for the U.S.A. American Tribute to the Boats of the Institution
WHEN Rear-Admiral F. C. Billard, Commandant of the United States Coast Guard, and the other American delegates attended the second International Life-boat Conference, which was held in Paris last June, they visited Life-boat Stations in...
Category: Articles
An East Coast Gale
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 120 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 54 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to February 15th, 1934 - ... 63,615 An East Coast Gale.
ON 13th December an...
Category: Articles
Eleanor, of Quebec
On the night of the 8th December, when blowing heavily at W.N.W., the Life-boat made two trips to the barque Eleanor, of Quebec, then ashore on the Cardiff Sands.
The first time the boat started from the shore at 10 P.M.,...
Destruction of the Passenger Steam-Ship, "Austria," By Fire
THE steam-ship, Austria, of 2,500 tons, one of the Hamburg line of screw steam-packets, running between that place and New York, sailed from Southampton on the 4th Sept.
last for New York. Her passengers numbered 425, and...
Category: Articles
Foam, of Wisbech
On the 23rd July, the yacht Foam, of Wisbeach, was observed in a very dangerous position, with the sea breaking over her, off this place. It was blowing a strong gale from the N.E. at I the time. The Licensed Victuallers life-boat was...
St. Gerard, of Arklow
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—A fishing boat was noticed at anchor three miles north of the pier on the 8th and 9th of December, 1949, and by the afternoon of the 10th she had not moved. As the weather had worsened, and the father...
Two Views of Henry Browne's 'Port-Hole' Compass: Fitted Into Main Bulkhead It Projects Fore and Aft Into Cabin and Cockpit
Two views of Henry Browne's 'Port-hole' compass: fitted into main bulkhead, it projects fore and aft into cabin and cockpit.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Severe Gale: Faithful Forester Dover's 44' Waveney Lifeboat on Exercise Last September In Winds of Force 9
Severe gale: Faithful Forester, Dover's 44' Waveney lifeboat, on exercise last September in winds of Force 9.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs