LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Gipsy King of Glasgow
— The schooner Gipsy King, of Glasgow, was totally wrecked during a heavy gale of wind on the Dulas Rocks, on the Anglesey coast, on the 17th October. At daybreak, during fearful weather, one of the crew was seen floating on a piece of...
The South Rock Lightvessel
Cloughey, and Donaghadee, Co. Down.— At three o'clock in the morning of the 31st of January, 1950, the Tara coast- guard telephoned the Cloughey life- boat authorities that the South Rock lightvessel had fired a white rocket. At 3.15 he...
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Category: Advertisement
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JANUARY 1 8TH. - LERWICK, SHETLANDS.
At 12.37 in the afternoon the coastguard telephoned that a German aeroplane had bombed the Out Skerries Lighthouse, that one of the people on the lighthouse had been wounded, and that...
Coxswain George Taylor
COXSWAIN GEORGE TAYLOR, of Newbiggin, was also the holder of a silver medal awarded for an outstanding service during the last war. This was the rescue in a 32-feet life-boat of the light surf type of eleven men from the Belgian motor vessel...
Category: Obituaries
Dear Reader
As we draw into the last quarter of 2012, we can reflect on a year of awards and celebrations.
Our Patron continued her travels around the RNLI (see page 4), we appointed an inspiring new Council member (28), and...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Pilcomayo
DOCTOR TAKEN TO BADLY INJURED SEAMAN Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. At seven o'clock on the evening of the 9th April, 1962, the police at Avonmouth dock informed the honorary secretary that a man had been seriously injured on board a ship...
David Ogilvie
Aberdeen, Scotland. At 11.15 on the night of the 27th of October, 1959, the trawler David Ogilvie of Aberdeen was reported to have broken adrift from her moorings in the River Dee. Attempts to take her in tow were made by a pilot cutter and...
Angloman (1)
HOLYHEAD, CEMAES and CEMLYN.— During a dense fog on the 9th February a large four-masted steamer, the Angloman, of and for Liverpool, with a general cargo and cattle, stranded on the West Flatters rocks. Fortunately the sea was smoothat the...
Brian Williams a Shoreline Member Specialises In Making Scale Miniature Models of Individual Boats His Replicas Include Sailing Barges and Yachts and A/So Lifeboat
Brian Williams, a Shoreline member, specialises in making scale miniature models of individual boats. His replicas include sailing barges and yachts and a/so lifeboats, a number of which have been ordered for presentation to serving or... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs