LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Destruction of the Passenger Steam-Ship, "Austria," By Fire
THE steam-ship, Austria, of 2,500 tons, one of the Hamburg line of screw steam-packets, running between that place and New York, sailed from Southampton on the 4th Sept.
last for New York. Her passengers numbered 425, and...
Category: Articles
Pandema, of Plymouth, and Besty, of Brixham
On the night of 18th March the brigantine Pandema, of Ply- mouth, bound from Cardiff to London with railway iron, struck on the Doomedbar Sands off Padstow during a strong northerly gale and heavy sea. The life-boat at Padstow was at once...
Knikker and the S.S. City of Bengal
SEPTEMBER 16TH. - FLEETWOOD LANCASHIRE. At 9 P.M. the naval authorities asked that the life-boat should go out to stand by the Dutch trawler Knikker - working from Fleetwood - which had on board survivors of the S.S. City of Bengal.
Her Majesty the Queen's Recognition of Gallant Conduct
THE destruction by fire of H. M.'s troop-ship Birkenhead, in 1852, and of the hired transport Europa,* in 1854, will no doubt be remembered by many of our readers.
Both catastrophes were attended by lamentable loss of...
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Clifton, of Gloucester
Early in the morning of the 12th March, the schooner Clifton, of Glou- cester, ran ashore on the south side of the bar at the entrance to Bideford harbour, the wind blowing hard from the west at the time. At daylight the crew, 6 in number,...
Feature: the Lifeboat College
Shaping the future It feels Like a long time since the RNLI announced it intended to build a training college in Poole. Construction started in 2002 and since then hundreds of men and women have laboured to make The Lifeboat College vision a...
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Index to the Gift Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
INDEX TO THE GIFT LIFE-BOATS OF THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION. (The figures refer to ttie numbers of the Lifeboats detailed on the ten preceding Pages.) A. B. S., 123. Dodd, H..Esq . the late, 274. H...
Category: Donations
Institution's Divisional Inspectors of Lifeboats By Joan Davies
A MONDAY MORNING IN JUNE, and a divisional inspector of lifeboats waits on an airfield for an early flight. An odd place, perhaps, to pick up the story of the day to day life of a DI, but then this DI's territory takes in an island and...
Category: Articles
A Nelson Aboard the Nelsons of Donaghadee: Quintan One of the Nelson Family Members of Which Have Served In the Donaghadee Lifeboat Since the Station Was Establis
A Nelson aboard The Nelsons of Donaghadee: Quintan, one of the Nelson family, members of which have served in the Donaghadee lifeboat since the station was established in 1910 and after whom the new 44' Waveney lifeboat is... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Sailing Boat, St. Brendon, of Dungarvan
SEPTEMBER 1ST. - HELVICK HEAD, CO. WATERFORD. At 4.45 in the afternoon the sailing boat, St. Brendon, of Dungarvan, was sailing round the Black Rock in Dungarvan harbour. She had five on board. A north-westerly breeze was blowing and the sea...