LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Whippingham
The paddle steamer Whippingham, of South- ampton, while on a pleasure trip from Ryde to Bournemouth on the afternoon of the 5th September, was in difficulties through a defect in the paddle wheels and began to leak, when about six miles...
H.M.M.S. 106
BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT LOWESTOFT SEPTEMBER 30TH. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK. At 9.40 in the evening the naval authorities asked that the motor life-boat Michael Stephens should go out to the help of a vessel which was ashore about one and a half...
A Cruising Life-Boat, and a Life-Boat of the Modified Watson Type at Stockholm
A Cruising Life-Boat and A Life-Boat of the Modified Watson Type at Stockholm. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Svea
Exhausted crew saved at Aldeburgh After 25 hours at sea, the crew of two on the yacht Svea were in real trouble in rough seas near Aldeburgh. The yacht's sails had blown out and the radio was not working. When the Aldeburgh Mersey class...
Restoration of the Apparently Drowned
WE have much pleasure in publishing the following letter from Dr. PAGET-BLAKE, of Torquay, which shows the importance of retaining in the new Directions of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION a portion of Dr. MARSHALL HALL'S...
Category: Correspondence
A Bronze Medal Service at Holyhead
ON the night of the 25th of October, 1949, a whole northerly gale was blow- ing at Holyhead with violent squalls at forty and fifty miles an hour. The sea was very rough; the night dark with heavy squalls of rain.
A small...
Category: Services
The Freighter Dovrefjell, of Oslo (1)
Longhope, Orkneys, and Wick, Caith- ness-shire.—At 4.22 on the morning of the 3rd of February, 1956, the freighter Dovrefjell, of Oslo, a converted tanker, wirelessed that she had gone aground in the Pentland Skerries but was in no immediate...
Charles Barrie
Broughty Ferry, Angus.—At 11.45 A.M. on the 18th June the honorary secretary received a telephone message that an aeroplane had been seen to fall into the water near No. 6 buoy, off Shanwell Sands. The motor life-boat John Ryburn was away...
High Hopes
Engine failed MEMBERS OF REDCAR ILB CREW, Standing by in the boathouse on Thursday morning, June 10, sighted, at 1000, a red flare beyond Saltscar Buoy some three miles east of the ILB station.
The ILB was launched at 1005...
S.S. Kimball Harlow, of London
AUGUST 23RD. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. At 4.45 in the morning the coastguard telegraphed that North Foreland Radio Station had reported a vessel on the Southern Shipwash Sands and in need of help.
A light northerly...