LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Newhaven Sunday December 13:
Newhaven, Sunday December 13: Soon after midday two calls were received in quick succession. A gale, gusting above force 10, was blowing from south south east; the spring tide was in the first hour of the ebb and seas in the harbour and at... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Coxswain Thomas H. Nicholas, Sennen Cove
Coxswain Thomas H Nicholas Sennen Cove. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Model Engineer Exhibition
THE Model Engineer Exhibition very kindly gave the Institution space for a display when it was held this year at the Horticultural Hall from August the 9th to the 19th. The Institution showed models of the first lifeboat, a pulling and...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Baron Berwick
SOS FROM HULL Humber, Yorkshire. At about 4.50 p.m. on 8th October, 1963, the coxswain received a telephone message from the Hull agents of the S.S. Baron Berwick asking if a doctor could be taken to the ship as there was a sick man on board...
An Aeroplane (78)
AUGUST 11TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK, AND LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK. The R.A.F.
reported a Blenheim aircraft down in the sea three miles off the coast between Yarmouth and Lowestoft, but the life-boats found...
Mermaid Marine Engines Ltd
R.N.L.I., rely on Mermaid T THE NEW ROTHER CLASS LIFEBOATS, as those already in service like the Margate Lifeboat shown here, rely on Mermaid diesel engines for continuous trouble-free power in every emergency. You need reliability too, so...
Category: Advertisement
Nellie
On the 14th March the barge Nellie, of Appledore, was returning home from Meadow Ridge, empty, when her mainsail was carried away by the strong southerly gale that was blowing. A very heavy sea was running, and it was...
Four Fishing Yawls
telephonic message was received from the Coast- guard at Wick, stating that four fishing yawls were in distress in Wick Bay and making their way north. The sea j at the time was very heavy and the j weather was cold and hazy. ...
The Life-Boat Stations of the United Kingdom
XXXVIII.—WALMER.
Centurion, 36 feet long, 9 feet 4 inches beam, 12 oars.
TOWARDS the end of the year 1856 a Life-boat was placed on this station by the Institution, in aid of which the Royal Thames Yacht...
Category: Articles
A Ship Annie E Hooper, of Baltimore U.S
On the 20th October the Lytham life-boat again rendered a very important service. The American ship Annie E. Hooper, of Balti- more, U.S., 1,140 tons burden, with a crew of 18 men, and a cargo of wheat, flour, and tobacco, stranded on the...