LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services of Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
FORMBY, LANCASHIRE.—At 8.25 on the morning of the 2nd January, a message was received from the Formby Light-vessel, stating that a steamer appeared to be aground on Taylor's Bank, and later the information was...
Category: Services
The Wreck Register and Chart for the First Six Months of 1873
FOR many years past we have made a synopsis of the Home Wreck Register and Chart of the preceding twelve months, and we propose to follow, on the present occasion, the same course in reference to I the important and national document : which...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Kaida, of Leith
DECEMBER 22ND. - SELSEY, SUSSEX.
At 9.40 at night the coastguard reported distress signals from a vessel off Middleton, and at ten o’clock the motor life-boat Canadian Pacific was launched in a strong, northerly wind with a...
Awards Presented By Hrh the Duchess of Kent at the Royal Festival Hall on 22 May 1990
Silver Medal for Gallantry Coxswain Alan Thomas, Tenby, Dyfed.
On 22 September 1989 the Tenby Tyne class lifeboat RFA Sir Galahad launched to the assistance of three fishing vessels in difficulties off Worms Head. The...
Category: Awards
The S.S. Empire Facility, of London
JANUARY 21ST. - REDCAR, YORKSHIRE.
At 6.30 in the morning the coastguard reported that a vessel half a mile to the north-west had fired a rocket and hoisted a signal, and the motor life-boat Louisa Polden was launched at 7...
The Large Volume of the Superstructure of the Mersey Class Pictured Nght
The large volume of the superstructure of the Mersey class, pictured nght. cannoi be pushed any further into the water by the fixed weigh) ol the boat Although completely upside down as [he strops are released it is deaf that the boat is... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Johanna Te Velde
Sheringham, Norfolk. — Just before nine o'clock on the night of the 31st of December, 1950, a local resident informed the life-boat honorary sec- retary that a ship was making morse signals three-quarters of a mile east- north-east of...
The Fundraisers
It Moosed be a mistake! No-one in the RNLI's membership department had an inkling that Mr A. Moose of the Station Hotel, Hurworth Place near Darlington was anything other than a normal, valued member - and the landlord of the Station...
Category: Articles
The Royal Bank of Scotland
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Category: Advertisement
The S.S. Valborg, of Copenhagen
NOVEMBER 27TH. - FOWEY, CORNWALL,.
At 7.30 at night the S.S. Valborg, of Copenhagen, which was off the harbour, signalled on her siren for a pilot. A fresh south-southwest gale was blowing, with a rough...