LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Airliner Cloud of lona (1)
St. Peter Port, Guernsey, and St.
Helier, Jersey.—31st July. The air liner Cloud of lona had been reported .overdue, and the motor life-boat Queen Victoria put out and searched all night without success. Shortly after noon...
The Late Mrs. Williams, of Llanfairynghornwy, Anglesey
IT is our painful duty to announce the death, on the 25th of October last, of Mrs. WILLIAMS, the wife of the Rev. JAMES WILLIAMS, Rector of Llanfairynghornwy, Anglesey.
This highly estimable and benevolent lady not only...
Category: Obituaries
The S.S. Bilsdale, of Middlesbrough
DECEMBER 9TH - 10TH. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK. On the night of the 26th of October the S.S. Bilsdale, of Middlesbrough, ran ashore two miles north-west of Cley. The motor life-boat Foresters Centenary went to her help, but the master declined...
Rescue of the Crew of the "Lovely Nelly" of Seaham, By the Cullercoats ("Percy") Life-Boat
RESCUE OF THE CREW OF THE "LOVELY KELLY" Or SEAHAM, BY THE CULLERCOATS (" PERCY ") LIFE-BOAT.
Category: Drawings
Festival In Aid of the Funds of the National Shipwreck Institution
IN the early part of March next, it is intended to hold a Public Dinner, in the City, in aid of the funds of the above Institution, and for the purpose of bringing the Society and its objects prominently before the country. His Grace the...
Category: Articles
Wreck of the Life-Boat at The Mumbles
AT 6.10 in the evening of Wednesday, April 23rd, the life-boat at The Mumbles vent out in a gale of exceptional severity to the help of the steamer Samtampa, of Middlesbrough, which had been driven ashore on the rocks off Sker Point, eleven...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Knossos, of Greece.
At 11.19 a.m. on 27th August, 1967, the ship's agent at Hull informed the coxswain superintendent that there was a sick man on board the s.s. Knossos of Greece. The life-boat Edward and Isabella Irwin, on temporary duty at the station,...
View of the Deck
The Samuel and Marie Par house, the 46-feet Watson cabin motor life-boat stationed at Salcombe, Devon in 1938.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Some Ways of Raising Money
The second annual raft race organised by York branch on the River Ouse was held on a sunny Saturday in July and about 40 entries mustered at the starting point, the Viking Hotel. The Lord Mayor of York and Mayoress judged all entries for the...
Category: Donations
Life-Boats In the Battle of Britain.
The defeat of Germany's air attack on this country in the autumn of 1940, known as the Battle of Britain, lasted, according to the official accounts, from August 8th. to October 31st. During these 85 days life-boats were launched to the...
Category: Articles