LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Naming Ceremony: City of Bristol
CLYDE CLASS 70-003 LOA 71' : Beam 18' : Displacement 87 tonsLATEST OF the Clyde class lifeboats, 70-003, was named City of Bristol by the Lady Mayoress of Bristol, Mrs A. G.
Peglar, at Narrow Quay, Bristol, on...
Category: Inaugurations
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Lifeboat provides inflatable and first aid in team effort for fallen climber Members of Anstruther lifeboat crew can be made out on the foreshore in this photograph providing first aid while a helicopter prepares to lift an injured climber...
The S.S. Blair Devon, of Glasgow
FEBRUARY 23RD. - TEESMOUTH, YORKSHIRE.
At 12.15 in the afternoon the South Gare Lighthouse telephoned that a vessel was in difficulties 200 yards north-east of the lighthouse. A northerly gale was blowing and the sea was...
Gallant Women
Three women have been thanked by the Institution for their gallantry. One was the purser of the training ship "Moyana", in Southampton Water, who was awarded a vellum. Six cadets had left the ship in a dinghy in a rough...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Radwinter, of London
JUNE 27TH. - ANGLE, AND FISHGUARD, PEMBROKESHIRE. At 10.35 in the morning the coastguard telephoned to Angle that Seaforth Radio Station had picked up an SOS message from the S.S. Radwinter, of London. She had struck bottom a mile south of...
North Sunderland Ladies' Guild
The annual harbour fete of North Stinderland ladies' guild broke all its previous records h raising just over £10,000. As a result of the fete, donations, coffee mornings, bridge drive, a handsome donation from the local Rotarv... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Marie Emile, of St Louis
Again, on the 2nd Feb., the same boat performed, if possible, still more meri- torious service, in saving a crew of 4 men from the wreck of the Marie Emilie, of St. Louis. The seas were rolling clean over this wreck when the Life-boat was...
Queen of the Tyne
On the 29th Jan- uary, during a south-westerly gale, the coal- laden brig Queenofthe Tyne, of South Shields, went on the Gorton Sand. The life-boat Iiostitia promptly proceeded off to the scene of the wreck, and on reaching the spot found...
Richmond Packet, of Middlesborough
Again, on the night of the 26th October, a vessel was seen apparently in a dangerous position near the Barber Sands, off Glister.
Some of the beachmen went off in one of their yawls, and found the vessel to be the brig...
Heroine
APPLEDORE, DEVON. — On the 24th March, at about 1.15 P.M., a schooner was observed running for Bideford Harbour.
The wind was then blowing a gale from the N., with heavy snow squalls. When between the Fairway and Bar buoys...