LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S Pavlos
Weymouth, Dorset. At 11.20 on the morning of the 6th of January, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a message had been received from the s.s. Pavlos of Beirut, which was on passage from Bremen to Greece, that she had...
The Admiralty Tank-Landing Craft 4CVC
DECEMBER 15TH - 19TH. - PORT ASKAIG, HEBRIDES. At 9.15 at night the Kilchoman coastguard reported a vessel ashore at Black Rock, Jura. A strong south-cast wind was blowing, with a heavy sea. Sleet was falling and the night was dark. The...
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
FISHGUARD, PEMBROKESHIRE.—During a moderate N.N.E. gale and a heavy sea on the 2nd Feb., 1903, signals of distress were observed on the schooner Mary Boberts, of Carnarvon, which was lying in the roads. Rockets to assemble the crew were at...
Category: Services
Standing By the Fishing Fleet
The Whitby motor life-boat at the harbour bar (See opposite page.). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Coxswain's Memories of His First Service
Coxswain Edward WicJcham, of Wexford, Co, Wexford, who was Second Coxswain from 1886 to 1899, and Coxswain from 1899 to 1925, and who twice won the Silver Medal of the Institution for gallantry, has written the following account of his first...
Category: Services
Above: Plaque on the James and Catherine Macfarlane Stating That the Cost of the Boat Was Defrayed By a Gift from Mr. Robert F. Macfarlane In . Memory of His Father and Mother, (Top Right) Earl
Above: Plaque on the James and Catherine Macfarlane stating that the cost of the boat was defrayed by a gift from Mr. Robert F. Macfarlane in .
memory of his father and mother, (top right) Early stages in the building of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Effect of Steam Fishing-Boats on Small Fishing Communities
IN a former article in this journal (February, 1895) it was pointed out what an important part in the organi- zation of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION was occupied by the fisher- men living on the coasts of Great Britain and...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Urania, of Swansea
At 9 A.M. on the 18th January, at which time it was blowing hard from the southward, the s.s. Urania, of Swansea, bound from that port to Newry, went ashore north of this port on the North Bull Bank, and the same Life-boat promptly proceeded...
Commercial Shipping: Taking Off the Crew
AT THE ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL last May the gold medal for outstanding gallantry was presented to Coxswain Michael Scales of St Peter Port, Guernsey, and the silver medal to Coxswain/Mechanic Alexander ' Alastair' Gilchrist of...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Services During the Storms of December 1874
DURING the month of December last, the most successful and continuous services to the shipwrecked that had ever been recorded in the course of one month were performed by the Life-boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT...
Category: Articles