LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Life-Boat Station
THE following brief description and diagrams illustrative of a complete Life-boat Establishment, including the house for the protection of the boat, will serve to convey an idea of the general character of one of the 233 Life-boat Stations...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat Station
THE following brief description and diagrams illustrative of a complete Life-boat Establishment, including the House for the protection of the boat, will serve to convey an idea of the general character of one of the 290 Life-boat Stations...
Category: Articles
The Lord Brownlow
The Institution has been so unfortunate as to lose two of its members by death within a few days of one another, Lord Brownlow and Mr. Henry Fargus.
Lord Brownlow, who became a member of the Committee in 1924, died on 19th...
Category: Obituaries
Evenlode
YACHT'S SAILS BLOWN AWAY Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 11.55 a.m. on Saturday the 24th August, 1963, the honorary secretary received a message from the coastguard that the s.s.
Bravo had taken the yacht Evenlode in tow...
Gem of the Ocean
UPGANG AND WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.— During the afternoon of the 15th Feb- ruary the northerly wind freshened, bringing up a heavy sea, and at about 3.30 P.M. a telephone message from Runswick reported that a small vessel was driving southward in...
The Blackwater Lightvessel
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—At two o'clock on the afternoon of the 22nd of June, 1957, the inspector of Irish Lights telephoned that a member of the crew of the Blackwater light- vessel was injured and needed medical treatment...
The Tilbury Ferry Edith
NO FOOD ON BOARD At 6.47 p.m. on loth November, 1964, the honorary secretary was told that the Tilbury ferry Edith, on passage from Harwich to Tilbury, was anchored near South Shoebury buoy because of thick fog without food, water or...
Notes of the Quarter
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 155 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to 30th June, 1954 ....
78,727 Notes of the Quarter LIFE-BOATS AND...
Category: Articles
The Rig Fortuna
ALNMOUTH, NORTHUMBERLAND. — The rig Fortuna, of Eiga, stranded on Birling arr Bocks, on the morning of the 8th anuary. On the following morning three f her crew left in the ship's boat, andreached the shore, five others were rescued by...