LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Nestlea and Dereske
NOVEMBER 1 8 - 2 0TH. - BALTIMORE, COURTMACSHERRY, AND BALLYCOTTON, CO. CORK. About 10.30 A.M. a wireless message, which had been picked up at Cork, was received at Baltimore that the steamer Nestlea, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, had been attacked...
Annual Report
AT the Annual General Meeting of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the London Tavern on Thursday, the 10th day of April, 1856, THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., Deputy-Chairman of the Institution, and Chairman of Lloyd's Register...
Category: Annual Reports
Mary Tweedlie
HOLY ISLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND.—The ketch Mary Tweedlie, of Berwick, was seen running before the wind, tinder bare poles, at 3 P.M., on the 6th March, 1883, during a fearful gale of wind from N. to N.E. and a very heavy sea, the whole bar and...
A Dangerous Launch at Gourdon
ON 17th December, 1938, a S.E. by E. gale was blowing at Gourdon, Kincardineshire, with, flurries of sleet.
An extremely heavy sea was running, and was breaking heavily far outside the harbour. Half an hour after midday a...
Category: Services
Irb Launches on Service During the Months December 1970, January and February, 1971
Broughty Ferry, Angus Conway, Caernarvonshire Criccieth, Caernarvonshire Eastney, Hampshire Eastney, Hampshire (18-005) Flint, Flintshire Hastings, Sussex Helensburgh, Dunbartonshire Llandudno, Caernarvonshire Lymington, Hampshire Lytham-St....
Category: Services
Shoreline
FEW PEOPLE are fortunate enough to work in offices with such a beautiful view as some Head Office staff are enjoying while in temporary accommodation at Poole Quay. The harbour at Poole, which is said to be the second largest natural harbour...
Category: Articles
Income and Expenditure.—1st Jan. To 31st Dec., 1954
THE LIFE-BOAT [JUNE, i* Statement! INCOME AND EXPENDITURE— 1st Jan. to 31st Dec., 1954. 1953 £ 184,064 EXPENDITURE LIFE-BOATS:— £...
Category: Accounts
Critical choice
With his dive buddy unconscious on the seabed, Luke Corkill faced a split-second decision: should he risk the bends by bringing her up fast, or face handing a body over to RNLI crews?
Dive...
Category: Articles
Padstow Has Two Up-To-Date Local Wreck Charts on Display Round the Harbour.
Padstow has two up-to-date local wreck charts on display round the harbour.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Launching By Tractor at Brooke, Isle of Wight
The pulling and sailing life-boat going out with Coxswain Major-General the Right Hon. - View image in PDF
Lord Mottistone, P.C., C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., in command.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs