LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution
BRIGHSTONE GRANGE, ISLE OF WIGHT.
—At 3'40 A.M. on the 2nd April, the barque Cedarine, of Bermuda, stranded near Brighstone Grange, with 234 persons on board, 191 of whom were convicts, whose period of punishment at...
Category: Services
Artist Tony Hart of Bbc Tv's 'Vision On' Programme Spent Almost Two Hours Making Lightning Sketches at a Coffee Morning Organised By Guildford Branch In the City's
Artist Tony Hart of BBC TV's 'Vision On' programme spent almost two hours making lightning sketches at a coffee morning organised by Guildford branch in the city's Guildhall last September. The sketches were sold for £1... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Unseaworthy Ships' Commission
THE Royal Commission appointed at the instance of Mr. Plimsoll " to inquire into the alleged unseaworthiness of British registered ships," has issued a " pre- liminary" report. The report is signed by all the...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Glendarroch (1)
BARMOUTH AND PWLLHELI.—On the 15th March a vessel was reported ashore on St. Patrick's Causeway, while a strong breeze was blowing from the W.S.W. with a heavy sea. The Barmouth Life-boat Jones Gibb was launched at 9 A.M. and boarded the...
The Norwegian Motor Tanker Athos, of Flekkefjord
AUGUST 3RD. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY.
At three in the afternoon the coastguard reported a vessel aground south of Holyhead in dense fog. There was no wind and the sea was smooth. At 3.10 the motor life-boat John and Mary...
The Boy Ernest
On the morning of the 19th April, large red flares were seen on the Middle Gross Sand, and the Middle Cross, St.
Nicholas, and Gorton light-vessels were firing rockets. The No. 1 Life-boat, Covent Garden was launched, a...
Awards to St. Ives for the Service to the Alba
By a strange coincide the Hungarian Minister in London was notified by his government on the day of the disaster at St. Ives of the awards which it had made to St. Ives for the service to the Alba in January, 1938. Though the Alba was...
Category: Awards
The Life-Boat House
The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept hi roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...
Category: Articles
The Fishwives of Cullercoats
THE fishwives of Cullercoats this year collected £139 at their quarterly road exercise and launch of the life-boat.
This is their sixteenth annual collection, and they have collected altogether over...
Category: Articles
Value of the Self-Righting Property In Life-Boats
IN the year 1851 the first self-righting Life-boat was built by Mr. JAMES BEECHING, the well-known boat-builder, at Yarmouth, who had obtained the prize of 1007., which had been offered in the previous year by Admiral the DUKE of...
Category: Articles