LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lena, of Waterford
NOVEMBER 16TH. - DUNMORE EAST, CO. WATERFORD. At 3.35 in the afternoon coastwatchers at Brownstown Head saw a boat in difficulties in Tramore Bay and informed the life-boat station. A strong south-south-east wind was blowing, with a very...
A Centenarian of Eastbourne. A Link Between 1784 and 1937
By Councillor Alexander Robertson, Honorary Secretary of the Eastbourne Station.
THERE died in Eastbourne on 16th February, 1937, a lady, Mrs. Caroline Allchorn, who was a hundred years old last year. She was born on 3rd...
Category: Articles
Shore-Boat Services Rewarded By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution In 1884
Jan. 3.—Voted 201. to the crew of the Salvage I Life-boat, Refuge, of Gorleston, for saving the crew, consisting of two men, of the sloop Freedom, of Boston, which was wrecked on the Cross Sand during a strong wind from the N.N.W. and a high...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
RUNSWICK, YORKSHIRE. — Fourteen Whitby cobles being overtaken by a rough sea while fishing on the 13th Feb. 1900, were unable to return home and were seen to be making for Runswick. The Life-boat Gape of Good Hope was launched at 1.30 P.M....
Category: Services
The Life-Boat Transporting-Carriage
The Life-boat transporting-carriage is a very important auxiliary to tht ooat.
Every Life-boat, except a few of the larger size, is provided with a carriage, on which she is kept in the boat-house ready for immediate...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat Transporting-Carriage
The Life-boat transporting-carriage is a very important auxiliary to the boat.
Every Life-boat, except a few of the larger size, is provided with a carriage, on which she is kept in the boat-house ready for immediate...
Category: Articles
Sennen Cove Naming Ceremony. The Legacy of Mr. Charles Carr Ashley
THE new Sennen Cove life-boat is a gift to the Life-boat Service from one of its most generous benefactors, the late Mr. Charles Carr Ashley, who died at Mentone in 1906. He bequeathed his estate to the Institution, subject to a number of...
Category: Inaugurations
Micky O'Donoughue (Centre) and the Cast of the Hunchback of Notre Dame'
Micky O'Donoughue (centre) and the cast of The Hunchback of Notre Dame' with some of the lottery tickets after the 44th lottery draw on 31 January 1989. With them are Mrs Richard Saunders, a member of the Committee of Management... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Man and cat saved in gale
Engine failure combined with force 7–8 winds to put a sailor and his cat Sukie in danger 4 miles off the Mull of Kintyre on 3 September. Campbeltown’s Severn class lifeboat, Ernest and Mary Shaw, launched to help. The 7m yacht was rolling...
Category: Articles
U.S. Coast-Guard Cutter on the International Ice Patrol
US Coast-Guard Cutter on the International Ice Patrol. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs