LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Charity Ending at Home. A Service By the Humber Motor Life-Boat
A Service by the Bomber Motor Life-boat.
"From the calamity of shipwreck, no one can say that he may at all times remain free, and whilst he is now providing only for the safety of others, a day may come which will...
Category: Services
Functional
Functional "Airflow" Jacket and Overtrousers Royal National Life-Boat Institution "...In 1971 the RNL1 adopte' Functional for Offshore Stations. The clothing has been well received by our crews who operate in severe...
Category: Advertisement
An Anson Aeroplane
JULY 17TH. - RHYL, FLINTSHIRE, AND LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE. At eight o’clock in the evening the Rhyl life-boat station was told that an Anson aeroplane had come down in the sea seven miles to the north-west, and that Botha aeroplanes and...
Maxim
"While a whole gale was blowing from S.W. on the 28th March, signals of distress were shown by the brigantine Maxim, of and from Drogheda for Liverpool, in ballast, which had stranded about three hundred yards south of the harbour. She...
Montrose and Longhope Motor Life-Boats at Scarborough on Their Journey North
Montrose and Longhope Motor Life-Boats at Scarborough On Their Journey North. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Mango
On Feb- ruary 6th the s.s. Mango, of Newry, ran ashore on the rocks off Aranmore, during a thick fog. A strong S.W.
breeze was blowing, a heavy sea was running, and it was raining. The motor life-boat William and Laura put...
Eliza
FILEY.—The coble Eliza, having on board a crew of three men who were fishing, on the 8th January, was lost sight of,and as darkness was approaching and the wind and sea were increasing it was considered advisable to take out the Life-boat...
S.S. Nicolaos
Walmer, and Ramsgate, Kent.—At * 8.7 P.M. on the 4th November, 1939, a message was received at Walmer from the Deal coastguard that distress signals had been seen about two miles east of their station. A S.W. wind was blowing, with...
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Caister, Norfolk. At 3.20 on the afternoon of the 23rd of June, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a bather was in difficulties off Winterton beach. At 3.50 the life-boat Jose Neville was launched in a slight swell, with a...
A Trawler
25th Janu- ary. Wireless distress signals were picked up from a trawler which was thought, from the strength of the signals, to be between Barra Head and the Island of Tiree. She was actually near Tory Island, off the Irish coast, and this...