LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Motor Boat (9)
NOVEMBER 3RD. - YARMOUTH, ISLE OF WIGHT Signals had been made by a motor boat, but she was escorted into harbour by another boat. - Rewards, £13 14s. 6d..
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
WINTERTON.—The No.' 2 Life-boat Husland was launched at 11 o'clock on the night of the 4th October, in response to signals of distress shown by the brig Catherine, of Whitby, bound from Portsmouth for Sunderland, which -was...
Category: Services
New Member of Committee of Management
SIR ERIC SEAL, K.B.E., C.B., Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Works, and Chairman of the Civil Service Life- boat Fund, has been co-opted to the Committee of Management of the Institution.
After service in the R.A.F. during...
Category: Committee
Whitby Ilb Crew Members: (I to R) David Wharton Michael Coates Brian Hodgson and Barry Mason Photograph By Courtesy of Tindale's of Whitby
Whitby ILB crew members: (I. to r.) David Wharton, Michael Coates, Brian Hodgson and Barry Mason. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of Tindale's of Whitby.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Velocity of Sunderland
On the 2nd April, at daylight, a vessel, which afterwards proved to be the brig Velocity, of Sunderland, was perceived to be ashore on Sizewell Bank, the wind blow- ing hard from S.S.W. at the time. The Thorpe life-boat was quickly launched...
The Women of Boulmer. Seven Hours on Duty In a December Night's Blizzard
ON 20th December, 1925, a blizzard was blowing on the north-east coast, one of the severest for many years. The s.s.
Amble, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, a collier which loads at Amble, was riding at anchor in Alnmouth Bay, but...
Category: Services
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
RAMSGATE.—On the 2nd January, 1894,was blowing S. by E., and there was a good deal of swell on the sea. The Life- boat Ellen and Eliza, was promptly launched and on reaching the spot found that the barque Agerden haying lost her reckoning in...
Category: Services
The Light Type of Motor Life-Boat. Problems of the Three Capsizes
By LiEUT.-CoMMANDER P. E. VAUX, D.S.C., R.N., Chief Inspector of Life-boats.
THEEE motor life-boats have capsized in the space of fifteen months. In each capsize lives were lost.
The St. Ives life-boat...
Category: Articles
The Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, the Rt. Rev. Dr David Steel Visited Oban Station Last July, and Went to Sea In the Maclachlan Ilb.
The Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, the Rt. Rev. Dr David Steel visited Oban station last July, and went to sea in the Maclachlan ILB.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Life-Boats of the United Kingdom. Montrose Branch
LXV. MONTROSE No. 1.—The Mincing Lane, 33 feet by 8J feet, 10 oars.
LXVI. Ditto No. 2.—The Roman Governor of Caer Hun, 30 feet by 8 feet, 10 oa s. ' STANDING upon what may be termed a narrow sandy peninsula, is to be...
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