LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution
NORTHUMBERLAND. — Oh the morning of the 17th November; while a large number of fishing-boats were out, the wind rose, on the turn of the tide, to a strong gale from S.E. The sea was also very rough. The cobles that were nearest the shore...
Category: Services
September
Launches 29. Lives rescued 42.
SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT BARRA ISLAND SEPTEMBER 5TH. - BARRA ISLAND, AND STORNOWAY, HEBRIDES.
At 7 o’clock in the morning a message came from the coastguard that a vessel...
Category: Services
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
HOLYHEAD.—While a strong gale was blowing from N.W., accompanied by a heavy sea and rain, on the evening of the 6th Aug., 1900, the Coxswain of the Life-boat observed a barque dragging her anchors and driving towards the Nimrod rocks. He...
Category: Services
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
NEWBIGGIN-BY-THE-SBA, NORTHUMBERLAND.
—A signal of distress was made by a vessel northward of Newbiggin point, on the morning of the 9th Jan. 1889. The wind was blowing a gale from the S.E., the sea was very rough, and the...
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The Goodwins
OFF the Kentish coast there lie, Sands of treacherous make, Which swallow many a ship, Who luckless get in their wake.
They say that Earl Godwin made, A terrible curse upon Any ship that passed that way, Would come to grief...
Category: Poetry
Life-Boat As Ambulance
Shortly before 10 o'clock in the evening of 18th April last, just as the s.s. Clanwood, of Sunderland, was leaving Hartlepool for Ghent, with a cargo of coal, a gas explosion occurred on board.
The weather was fine with...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Services In 1904
Lives saved.
Newbiggin, North Sunder- land, Port Isaac, Scarboro', Staithes, Stonehaven, Whitby —rendered assistance.
Frobfsher, steam trawler, of Yar- mouth, assisted to save vessel and 9 George...
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The Scene of the Wreck Next Morning
The Scene of the Wreck Next Morning. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Crew of the Eastbourne Lifeboat
The crew of the Eastbourne lifeboat. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs