LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Abstract of the Wreck Register for 1876-77
TYRELLA, Co. DOWN.—On the 13th April, at about 7 A.M., the brigantine Cygnet, bound from Silloth to Dundalk, with a cargo of coal, was driven ashore in Dandrum Bay during a strong S.E. gate.
The Memorial Life-boat put off...
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The George Pickard
At about 5.20 P.M. on the 23rd October news was received that a small boat was burning flares outside the north arm of the Admiralty breakwater. She was the old life-boat George Pickard, which had been sold out of the service, and was now...
The Rye Life-Boatman
The figure which stands on the grave of the 17 Rye Life-boatmen who lost their lives on service on 15th November. 1928. The memorial is the work of Mr. J. Wedgwood, A.R.C.A.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Isle of Wight Packet-Boat Prince of Wales
The Christmas Gales.
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Life-boat's Four Launches in one Day.
THE gales at the end of October and November were followed by rough weather at the end of December, with heavy...
The Isle of Wight Packet-Boat Prince of Wales (1)
The Christmas Gales.
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Life-boat's Four Launches in one Day.
THE gales at the end of October and November were followed by rough weather at the end of December, with heavy...
The Danish Barque Louisa
On the 10th Oct.
this boat, in conjunction with the Walmer boat, saved the Danish barque Louisa,, which had been driven ashore on the North Sand during a W.S.W. gale..
The 100th Life-Boat
WHEN Messrs. J. Samuel White, the famous shipbuilders of Cowes, delivered the Aberdeen life-boat in June, 1951, they had completed their hundredth life-boat for the Institution.
Their life-boat work goes back over a hundred...
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Life-Boat Services Round the Coasts
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 144 station life-boats 102 inshore rescue boats 1 70-foot steel life-boat on operational trials 1 44-foot steel life-boat on evaluation trials at Barry Dock LIVES RESCUED 89,437 from the Institution's foundation in...
Category: Services
The Barquintine Erik Gjessen
The bar- quentine Erik Ojessen, of Skudescae, whilst bound from Haugesund to Leith in ballast, stranded about two and a half miles south of Newburgh on the 29th October. A moderate S.E. breeze was blowing at the time, but the sea j was very...
The Pyrene Company Ltd
Just as ships in distress know they can depe on the men of Britain's life-boats, so in t emergency of fire the R.N.L.I, ere wsthemseh know they can depend upon t sure and unfailing protect! of the "Pyrene" Fire Ext...
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