LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The American Ship Ellen Southard
On the morning of the 27th September, a very gallant service was performed by the Institution's tubular Life-boat Willie and Arthur, stationed at New Brighton.
During the previous night a storm of unusual violence had...
G. W. Pearns
Signals were fired from the Customs Watch House at 11.30 A.M. on the 28th March, indicating that the services of the Life-boat were required. The crew of the Life-boat John Turner Turner at once assembled, the boat was launched, and in about...
Norway
— Shortly after midnight on the 19th-20th July the steamer Norway, of Christiania, when bound from that place to Grangemouth, with a cargo of pulp and paper, and carrying eleven passengers, got out of her course and stranded off Skateraw.<...
Sunbeam
On the 14th March, when a fresh southerly breeze was blowing, and a rough sea was | running, the fishing-coble Sunbeam was j delayed some hours behind the others, in consequence of the night being very dark with snow falling heavily and the...
The New Experimental Irb Stationed at Lyme Regis Which Is Referred to on Page 52 Was Built at Atlantic College In South Wales the Boat Has a Five-Compartment 20-Inch
The new experimental IRB stationed at Lyme Regis, which is referred to on page 52, was built at Atlantic College in South Wales. The boat has a five-compartment 20-inch diameter special tube made by Messrs. Dunlop and is fabric strip glued... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Chalciope
BEAUNTON.—The Life-boat Robert and Catherine was launched at 8.30 P.M. on the 7th December, during a W.S.W. gale and a heavy broken sea, to the assistance of the brigantine Chalciope, of Fleetwood, bound from Corunna for Cardiff with pitwood...
The S.S. Earl Spencer
HOLYHEAD.—During a dense fog on the 8th January, signals were heard in the direction of the breakwater. The ThomasFielden Life-boat was launched at 5.30 A.M.and found the s.s. Earl Spencer, of Dublin, bound from Greenore for Holyhead, with...
Arragonite
At 12.20 A.M. on 3rd February, during a very thick fog, word was received that a vessel was making signals of distress, and the Motor Life-boat H. C. J. was launched. The Hull trawler Arragonite, with a crew of fifteen on board, was found on...
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SICK MAN TAKEN TO MAINLAND St. Mary's, Scilly Islands. At 11.40 on the morning of the 6th January, 1962, a local doctor asked the honorary secretary if the life-boat could take a man to Penzance for an emergency operation for acute...
New Choice
Longhope, Orkney.—At about 9.20A.M. on the 1st July information was received by telephone from Torness that a trawler was ashore. A moderate easterly wind was blowing. The sea was smooth, but there was a dense fog.
The...