LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Edith Owen
CEMLYN AND CEMAES, ANGLESEY.—On the 27th January, the s.s. Edith Owen, of London, bound from Bristol to Liverpool with a general cargo, struck on the Coal Kock, off the coast of Anglesey, during foggy weather, the wind blowing moderately...
Return of the Native
Return of the native The former Aberdeen lifeboat Ramsey Dyce - which served at the station between 1957 and 1976 before being transferred to the relief fleet - visited her old station during September 1995. She had previously called at... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Ramsgate Life-Boat: A Rescue
CHAPTER I.
A WRECK OFT MARGATE.
THE night of Sunday, the 12th of February, in the present year, was what sailors call a very dirty night. Heavy masses of clouds skirted the horizon as the sun get; and,...
Category: Services
The Big Break
Nicholas White, aged 19, an indefatigable fundraiser for the Ivybridge and district branch, is pictured outside No. 10 Downing Street at the end of his latest moneyspinning venture.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lowestoft: at 0625 on Tuesday August 14 1979 the Morning of the Fastnet Storm Lowestoft's 47Ft Watson Lifeboat Frederick Edward Crick Launched on Service to Escort the Dutch Yacht Lutjew
Lowestoft: At 0625 on Tuesday August 14, 1979, the morning of the Fastnet Storm, Lowestoft's 47ft Watson lifeboat Frederick Edward Crick launched on service to escort the Dutch yacht Lutjewald, in difficulties in rough seas and a... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Singular Case of the Restoration of the Apparently Drowned
CAPTAIN CREWE READ, R.N., Inspecting Commander of the Swansea Coast-guard Division, has forwarded to the Institution the following account of the resuscitation of a sailor apparently dead from drowning :—" At a late hour in the evening...
Category: Articles
The Steamers Haiti Victory and Duke of York
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—Early on the morning of the 6th of May, 1953, the United States steamer Haiti Victory collided with the British Railways passenger steamer Duke of York two miles east-south-east of the Galloper lightvessel. The...
Throughout the Summer of Maritime England Year the Marquess of Bath
Throughout the summer of Maritime England Year the Marquess of Bath displayed his collection of tiny Channel Is/and cowrie shells in two huge glass urns in the Great Hall at Longleat. Visitors making a voluntary contribution to the RNLI were... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Peep Into the Past
These days it is hard to imagine lifeboats propelled by anything but powerful engines. Back in the autumn of 1905 though, the then Life-boat Journal was hailing the introduction of marine • - ** *i***** " .xT- ~~ -'*'- 100...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Niord
SEAHAM, DURHAM.—Towards midnight on the 31st Deo., 1898, signals of distress at sea were observed off this place, and when the New Year broke, the Life-boat SJcynner was on her way to render help to the vessel which had displayed them. The...