LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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MARCH 8TH. - FENIT, CO. KERRY. A big object, which appeared, through fog, to have people on it, had been reported, but nothing was found. It seems probable that the object was the carcase of a whale with birds on it. - Rewards, £14...
A Mock Viking Longship
A mock Viking longship—one of four glass fibre replicas belonging to the Viking Longship Association—ran into trouble in Peel Harbour, on the Isle of Man, during a local carnival on August 2, 1987, when it began leaking and became submerged... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
In the picture
The RNLI has amassed a huge collection of inspirational photographs and paintings over the last 188 years. These images are not simply a record of the RNLI’s work – they tell the story of our social history and give a remarkable insight into...
Category: Articles
Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society
THE Fortieth Anniversary of this excellent Society was held at the City Terminus Hotel on the 14th May, The EARL OF ABERDEEN, V.P., occupied the Chair on ' the occasion.
1 Amongst those present were— His Excellency the...
Category: Meetings
The 24ft Cabin Cruiser Tomey Too
Overdue HAYLING ISLAND POLICE received a telephone call from a lady in Berkshire at 0330 on Tuesday January 3 to say that her husband and son had not returned from a fishing trip. They had set out from Northney Marina at 1030 and had been...
The S.S. Whinstone, of Preston (1)
ON 25th November, just before eight o'clock in the morning, the Donna Nook Life-boat went out in answer to signals of distress. The conditions could not i She found the Whinstone at anchor, after have been worse. A whole gale was I...
Neco Marine Ltd.
Automatic Pilot To hold a set course in most conditions Repeater Compass For easy reading and optimum siting Anchor Windlass 1,800 Ibs pull from 12-220 volt D.C. supply Electric Capstan Push-button control of 1,000 Ibs pull Davit Hoist For...
Category: Advertisement
Neco Marine Ltd
AUTOMATIC PILOT To hold a set course in most conditions REPEATER COMPASS For easy reading and optimum siting ANCHOR WINDLASS 1,800 Ibs pull from 12-220 volt D.C. supply ELECTRIC CAPSTAN Push-button control of 1,000 Ibs pull DAVIT HOIST For...
Category: Advertisement
Sir William Milligan, M.D., LL.D., J.P., of Manchester
BY the death of Sir William Milligan, on 19th December, 1929, at the age of 65, the Manchester, Salford and District Branch has lost its Chairman, the Insti- tution one of its Vice-Presidents, and the whole Life-boat Service one of its most...
Category: Obituaries
Ananda
ABERYSTWITH.—On the 23rd January, while a whole gale from the S.W. was at its height, accompanied by a very heavy sea, the steamer Ananda, of Greenock, bound from Workington for Swansea with a cargo of pig-iron, was seen in a disabled state...