LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Screw Steamer Langdale
SDNDERLAND.—The report of a gun was heard at 7.45 A.M. on the 19th of April, during a light E.N.E. wind, a strong sea, and foggy weather, and the screw steamer, Langdale, of Sunderland, was seen on the North rocks. The No. 1 Life-boat Good...
The Royal Sovereign Lightvessel
On the morning of the 1st December rockets were fired from the Royal Sovereign Light-vessel. The Life-boat put off, and on reaching the light-ship found that one of her crew had fallen from the shrouds attached to the shaft on which the...
The Earl of Harrowby
JOHN HERBERT DUDLEY RYDER, fifth Earl of Harrowby, died on the 30th of March, 1956, at the age of 91. The Earl of Harrowby had held the office of treasurer of the Institution longer than anyone else in the Institution's history. He was...
Category: Obituaries
The Mail Steamer Lochearn
NOVEMBER 22ND. - BARRA ISLAND, HEBRIDES. During the morning the mail steamer Lochearn, of Oban, arrived in Castlebay harbour. A southerly gale was blowing, with a rough sea, and the steamer was unable to make the pier. She had to anchor in...
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
BARMOUTH.—A large vessel was seen stranded on St. Patrick's Causeway on the morning of the 24th March, 1895. A heavy gale was blowing from S.W., the weather was thick and the sea rough. The Life- boat Jones Gibb put off at 8.15, and on...
Category: Services
The Austrian Barque Junak
CASTLETOWN, ISLE OF MAN.—On the 28th May, about 1 A.M., the Castletown Life-boat Commercial Traveller, No. 2, was launched and proceeded to the Austrian barque Junak, of Spalato, which vessel had driven ashore in Castletown Bay, whilst it...
The Dowsing Lightvessel
PATIENT ON LIGHTVESSEL At 10.37 a-m- on 2^th August, 1964, a superintendent of Trinity House told the coxswain superintendent that a sick man on board Dowsing lightvessel needed urgent medical attention and requested the use of the life-boat...
The Folio Society
(including postage &. pac Empires of the ancient near east is the definitive, lavishly illustrated chronicle of the four monumental civilisations that prospered between the end of the Stone Age and the advent of Hellenistic...
Category: Advertisement
The Wreck of the Trawler Jeanne
The Wreck of the Trawler Jeanne. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Below: the Crew Prepare for the Opening
Below: The crew prepare for the opening. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs