LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Life-Saving Hammocks
AMONGST the various articles designed to save life on occasions of disaster to ships, perhaps one of the most natural was a seaman's bed or mattress, composed of buoyant materials. Since the space on shipboard for the stowage of anything...
Category: Articles
A Life-Boatman's Generosity. Mr. Richard Cowling. Late Signalman of Scarborough
IT is not only on the seas that Life-boatmen show the fine stuff of which they are made, and we feel sure that the following story will be read with as much pleasure and pride as any story of gallantry and devotion in the actual work of...
Category: Articles
The Wreck Register and Chart for the Year Ended the 30th June, 1888
THANKS to the energy of the BOARD or TRADE we are enabled to draw the attention of our readers several months earlier than we had anticipated, to the facts and figures contained in the Blue Book compiled from the Wreck Register for the year...
Category: Articles
Temple Insurance Brokers
Boat Insurance for Shoreline Members (and other lifeboat' readers) Temple Insurance Brokers Ltd., specialist Marine Craft Insurance Brokers, Members of the British Insurance Brokers Association, are pleased to offer Shoreline Members and...
Category: Advertisement
Tricky Manoeuvre
Following your news item about the exercise with a passenger vessel as described in the spring LIFEBOAT magazine, I thought you may be interested in the enclosed action shot.
Harwich lifeboat was launched on service to the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Walrus Amphibious Aeroplane
DECEMBER 13TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. At two in the afternoon the Hoylake coastguard reported an aeroplane down in the River Mersey off Gladstone Dock.
The weather was foggy, with a light southeast wind. The sea was...
Wing
Rescue a dramatic struggle becomesCold, tired and wet, the lone skipper of the yacht Wing had been without sleep for nearly two days when his yacht ran aground on the Long Sands, south of Skegness, on the morning of 5 May 2002. As rough seas...
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The S.S. Clavering (1)
SEATON CAREW and HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM.—A terrible disaster, involving the loss of several lives, mostly Lascars, took place on the 31st January at the mouth of the River Tees. The s.s. Clavering, of London, a large vessel of upwards of 3,300...
Book Corner
0 Shipwreck by Vcra Cumberlege (Andre Deutsch, 95p) is a very well illustrated children's book. Young Jim knew he would never forget the day his father and the rest of the life-boat crew rowed out to a wreck for the last time before the...
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