LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
North Cornwall Visit of the Duke of Kent President of the Institution to Five Stations In North Cornwall
Five lifeboat stations in North Cornwall were visited on June 27 by our president, HRH The Duke of Kent. Such great interest did His Royal Highness take in all he was shown and in all the lifeboat people he met—crew members and their wives,...
Category: Articles
Killed on Service. Death of the Scarborough Bowman
AT 11.14 on the morning of the 9th of December, 1951, the news came to the Scarborough life-boat station that a ship was sinking twenty-six and a half miles east by north of Scarborough.
She was a Dutch motor vessel of 499...
Category: Services
The S.S. Duke of Sparta
St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly. — About 11.40 in the morning of the 19th of April, 1948, the coastguard reported that the s.s. Duke of Sparta had wire- lessed that she was on the Seven Stones Rocks. A later message said that she was making...
At the Top of the Slipway
Damage to the No 1 boathouse doors. February 2nd, 1938. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Petros, of Famagusta
At 4.1 p.m. the life-boat slipped her moorings once more with a doctor on board following a report that an explosion had occurred on board the s.s. Petros of Famagusta. Two men were reported badly burned. The life-boat came up with the...
The Loss of Life on and Near Our Coasts
A CAREFUL or interested reader of the article in THE LIFE-BOAT JOURNAL for last November, on the " Wreck Register and Chart for the year ended June 30th, 1884," cannot but be struck by the me- lancholy fact shown by the statistics,...
Category: Articles
Notes of the Quarter from Page 183
crew acquitted themselves with distinction in spite of the fact that two of the members were in their 50s. Rowing an unfamiliar type of craft known as a Monamoy, they won their heat against a formidable crew representing the US National...
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Freemen of the Sea, By Dora Walker
Freemen of the Sea, by Dora Walker (A. Brown & Sons, Ltd., B.C. 1. 10/6) Miss DORA WALKER, who is president of the Whitby Ladies' Life-boat Guild, has written a charming anecdotal book about the seafarers of Whitby; a series of...
Category: Articles
The Adventures of a Life-Boat Flotilla
ON 15th April, 1909, a flotilla of three Life-boats, in two of which motor engines had been installed, were despatched by the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION from the London Docks en route by sea for Thurso...
Category: Articles