LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Velocity, Frier and Bonne Mere
SWANAGE AND POOLE.—The Life-boats at these well-known places on the south coast were instrumental in rendering excellent service to vessels in great distress during the severe gales of November last. On the 23rd of that month the former boat...
Rhyl Life-Boat and Auxiliary Sloop Ann
Rhyl Life-Boat and Auxiliary Sloop Ann. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Too Many Cooks! Portpatrick
Too many cooks! Portpatrick lifeboat station holds a lifeboat week every year and last year, with the help of the newly formed ladies' guild, raised £6,400. The photograph shows the coxswain and crew preparing the barbecue which was... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Renown, Three Fevers and Sincerity
Open fishing boats FLAMBOROUGH COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Bridlington lifeboat station at 0918 on Thursday January 31, 1980, that the coble Renown was in difficulties one mile east of Rolston and some 13 miles south of the...
The Wreck Register and Chart for 1861
SHAKESPEARE compares England to a fortress, and the Channel to a moat; but if he saw the leviathan steamers now coming up that channel, he would be the first to acknowledge that the comparison did not hold good in the present day. We do not...
Category: Articles
Lady Leila and Dawk Eeang
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 6.45 in the evening, on the 4th of June, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that the North Goodwin Lightvessel had reported a motor cruiser apparently aground near Goodwin Knoll buoy. At 6.55 the life-boat Mary Scott, on...
The Seven Medallists of the Great Gales, October, 1929, to January, 1930
Left to right: Coxswain James Wickham, Rosslare Harbour; Mr, W. J. B. Moncas, Hon. Secretary at Rosslare; Coxswain Harry A. Griggs, jun., Hythe; Coxswain Douglas Oilier, Dungeness; Coxswain James Watkins, Angle Coxswain Richard Payne,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Don
Signals of distress having been shown by the Middle Light Vessel on the 16th February, the Life-boat Albert Edward was launched at 1.15 A.M., proceeded to the Lightship and was informed that a vessel was ashore on the Maplin...
Life-Saving Hammocks and Mattresses
IN our August Number we inserted a Paper by ADMIRAL RIDER on the great advantage that would accrue if the ham- mocks in ships of -war could be made to serve as life-buoys, in the event of a ship suddenly foundering; more especially as in...
Category: Articles