LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Above: Bsi Presentation,
Above: BSI presentation, 11 May 1998 Heft to right)-Stuart Welford, RNLI research and development manager, Kevin Wood, BSI product services manager. Tony Wood*. BSI technical support specialist. Martin Maclfod second coxswain Barra Island,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Warriors of the Sea
LOUD thundered the breakers on the dark Atlantic shore, Ihe sky was mantled in the shroud of starless night, The lightning flash'd, and thunder roar'd, 'Midst the howling wind and hurricane's...
Category: Poetry
Andrada
BARMOUTH.—A large vessel was seen stranded on St. Patrick's Causeway on the morning of the 24th March, 1895. A heavy gale was blowing from S.W., the weather was thick and the sea rough. The Lifeboat Jones Ctibb put off at 8.15, and on...
Marie (1)
PALLING, NORFOLK.—On the 15th January, at 7.30, A.M., during squally weather, a vessel was observed ashore on the Hasborough Sand. The No. 2 Life-boat British Workman was launched and proceeded to the distressed vessel, which proved to be...
H.M. Destroyer Javelin
Redcar, Yorskhire.—22nd October, 1939. Information had been re- ceived through the coastguard from the senior naval officer at Newcastle that there had been a collision off Maske, one of the vessels being H.M.
Destroyer...
Davenport
May Meeting.
Eastbourne, Sussex.—On the morning of the 27th February a man reported that he had seen a vessel showing flares. She was the barge Davenport, of Ipswich, bound with a crew of three, and cargo of firebricks,...
Belle, of Sunderland
During a gale of wind from S.W., on the 2nd January, 1869, the brig Belle, of Sunderland, was total)/ wrecked on Sizewell Bank. The life-boat Ipswich,- which is stationed at Thorpeness, was launched with all practical speed, and happily...
Pinafore
RAILWAYS STEAMERS HELP TO FIND FISHING BOAT St. Helier, Jersey. At 4.10 on the morning of the 30th August, 1962, the harbour office informed the honorary secretary that the 28-foot fishing boat Pinafore, which had put out with a crew of four...
Danny La Rue
It was far from being a drag for Danny La Rue to open the summer fair organised by Bridlington ladies' lifeboat guild. He is seen here with Australian pianist Wayne King signing the guild's special table cloth which carries the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Hawksdale (1)
MARGATE AND CLACTON-ON-SEA.—On the morning of the 26th January, while a strong gale was blowing from N.N.E.
accompanied by a heavy sea, the Margate boatmen observed a large vessel apparently in dangerously close proximity...