LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Baron Inverclyde
DOCTOR TAKEN TO STEAMER IN FOG Barrow, Lancashire. At 10.50 on the morning of the 27th January, 1962, a firm of shipping agents in Barrow told the honorary secretary that the s.s.
Baron Inverclyde of Ardrossan, bound for...
Arfon
Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire. At 3.32 on the afternoon of the 5th of October, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the fishing boat Arfon was in difficulties two miles north-east of Trevor. She had a crew of four...
Lifeboat—In Danger's Hour'
THE RNLI'S PHOTOGRAPHIC ARCHIVES contain thousands of lifeboat pictures which not only document the progress in boats and equipment but also provide an insight to changing social conditions.
The selection on these pages...
Category: Articles
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Port Talbot (Aberavon Beach)
Port Talbot (Aberavon Beach) crew and station officials are photographed with their new D class inflatable lifeboat on Saturday March 24, the day she was officially handed over. The lifeboat was the gift of Port Talbot Round Table 335 and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Sail Safari -- It's a Lifeboat Knockout!
Using the 'It's a Knockout' theme, which has recently re-emerged into the limelight, the RNLI staged Sail Safari, an 'around the world boat race' in Battersea Park on 25 September. The event was part of the RNLI's... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Sea Venture
OCT. 20TH. - LERWICK, SHETLANDS.
At 2.10 P.M. a message was received from the senior naval officer that the S.S. Sea Venture, of London, had been sunk by enemy action fifteen to twenty miles east of Flugga, and that the...
Pathfinder
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The Hoylake Motor Life-Boat
JULY 10TH. - LYTHAM-ST. ANNES, LANCASHIRE.
While on her way to a shipyard at Freckleton the Hoylake motor life-boat was delayed by an engine breakdown. She was due off Lytham at three in the afternoon, but did not arrive...
Oregon 1
JANUARY 4TH. - DONAGHADEE, CO.
DOWN. At 8.10 in the morning the Bangor coastguard telephoned that a vessel was ashore at Wilson Point, Belfast Lough. A northerly gale was blowing, with a very rough sea. The motor life-boat...