LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

MARCH 16TH - 17TH. - CAMPBELTOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE, GIRVAN, AYRSHIRE, AND PORTPATRICK, WIGTOWNSHIRE. Soon after eleven o’clock on the night of the 16th the Southend coastguard reported to the Campbeltown life-boat station that a ship was ashore...

The steamer Faedrelandet, of Bergen, bound from Bergen to Stockton-on- Tees with a cargo of iron ore, stranded in the early morning of the 10th January on the Goswick Sands. The Coastguard reported the casualty by telephone, and steps were...

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The accompanying figures show the general form, the nature of the fittings, and air-chambers of one of...

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The accompanying figures show the general form, the nature of the fittings, and air-chambers of one of these boats,...

Ramsey, IsIe-of-Man.—At 9.50 on the morning of the 17th of February, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that the motor tanker Ben Henshaw, of London (which was two miles to the north-east) was flying a signal for a doctor. As the weather was...

Tonnes of timber were heaped along the English south coast last Winter – but what became of the cargo ship’s crew? Carol Waterkeyn hears the full story of Ice Prince, the men who went to her aid, and the RNLI’s first Silver Medal for 3...

The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...

Bird's eye view of RNLl works depot from headquarters building: now they are only separated by West Quay Road. There is water frontage to Holes Bay with a quay where offshore lifeboats can be moored alongside and also a... - View image in PDF