LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Dan Beard, of New Orleans
DECEMBER 10TH. - FISHGUARD, AND ST. DAVID’S, PEMBROKESHIRE. At 4.46 in the afternoon a message was received from the coastguard that a vessel had sent up red flares about seven miles west of Strumble Head. A moderate north-west wind was...
Coxswain Peter Thomson Aboard the White Rose of Yorkshire In Her Pen Moored on Vertical Sliding Moorings With Low Friction Fenders She Rises and Falls With the Tid
Coxswain Peter Thomson aboard The White Rose of Yorkshire in her pen. Moored on vertical sliding moorings, with low friction fenders, she rises and falls with the tide. - View image in PDF
Boarding is by vertical ladder.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
News from the Branches
Lyme Regis.
The Annual Meeting of the Branch was held on the 27th October, Dr. H. J.
Cooper, the Chairman of the Committee, being in the chair. The Annual Report for the year ending the 30th September last...
Category: Branches
The Value of a Life
The Cost of the Life-boat Service compared with the Value of the Lives Saved.
No one can calculate the full value of a life saved, or a life risked. But certain calculations can be made, and have been made, by Insurance...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Shuna
Port Askaig, Isle of Islay.—Early on the morning of the 17th October the s.s. Shuna, of Glasgow, bound for Gothenburg, ran hard on the rocks one mile S.S.W. of Chuirn Island Light.
A west gale was blowing, with a rough sea....
The Crew
Lerwick lifeboatmen lead Viking fire festival Longships are so old fashioned. The 21 st century Viking's transport-of-choice is a Severn class lifeboat.
Or so Lerwick crew members Bruce Leask (left) and John Sinclair...
Category: Articles
Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.
(Incorporated by Royal Charter.) FOUNDED in 1824.— SUPPORTED SOLELY BY VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS.
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Category: Advertisement
Around the Emerald Isle
Building into the MillenniumRNLI shoreworks manager Howard Richings continues his tour around the coast with a visit to IrelandOkay, so we all make mistakes - there are 38 stations around the coast of Ireland, not 37 as stated at the end of...
Category: Articles
Wyre, of Fleetwood,
LYTHAM.—About 11 A.M. on the 11th April, the schooner Wyre, of Pleetwood, having had all her sails blown away, was forced ashore, by the violence of a N.W. gale, on the Horse Bank, at the entrance to the River Ribble. Heavy snow-squalls...
The Danube, of Belfast
On the evening of the 6th March, a ship was seen to be aground on St. Patrick's Causeway, 10 miles from Criccieth, where the life-boat is stationed. At 9 p.m. the life-boat pro- ceeded to her aid, under oars, against a heavy westerly...