LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Statement of the Several Life-Boats Belonging to Or In Connection With the National Life-Boat Institution
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Category: Articles
Champion of The Seas
At 1 A.M.
on the 15th October it was reported that a schooner was ashore on the north beach. The rocket apparatus turned out and endeavoured to effect communication from the shore, but the vessel was too far off, and they...
A Sailing Boat, an Irish Naval Gig and Colette
Howth, Co. Dublin.—At four o'clock on the afternoon of the 30th August, 1953, a message was received that two boats were in difficulties off Ireland's Eye. At 4.15 the life-boat R.P.L.
was launched, with the bowman...
Wave Dancer
Tyne's inflatable used to reach stranded fishing boat survivors A service to a 17ft fishing vessel and her crew of two in hazardous conditions, among rocks and in rough seas, has earned two men from Wick's lifeboat station the Thanks...
Services of the Life-Boats of the Institution During 1929
Time of 1929. Launching.
Jan. 1. 1.45p.m.
1. 2.40p.m.
„ 2. 10.0 a.m.
„ 2. 3.15p.m.
„ 5-6. 3.39p.m.
9. 11.25...
Category: Services
Taste of the Past
Taste of the past / am writing to tell about some events here in Sweden this summer. Let me start back in 1855 when the first lifeboat station was established in Sweden near Sandhammaren, on the south east comer of Sweden, opposite the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Cid
WALMEH.—The s.s. Cid, of and for Barcelona, laden with coal from the Tyne, stranded on the Goodwin Sands in a dense fog on the morning of the 6th July. Signals were fired by the South Sand Head Light-vessel in response to which the Life-boat...
The Cornet, of Aberdeen
THE Stromness Motor Life-boat has already shown on more than one occasion what a Motor Life-boat can do in the way of long-distance services. One of these was described in The Life-Boat for February this year. On that occasion she travelled...
An Aeroplane (32)
OCTOBER 25TH. - PORT ASKAIG, HEBRIDES.
An aeroplane had crashed in the sea, but, as there was no possibility of anyone surviving, the life-boat was recalled. - Rewards, £10 9s. 6d..
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
WEXFORD, Co. WEXFORD.—A yawl belonging to Wexford broke adrift on the night of the 27th May, 1902. A strong gale from W.S.W. was blowing at the time, accompanied by a heavy sea. Owing to the stress of weather the crew were unable to make the...
Category: Services