LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S.Holstein, of Bremen, and the S.S. Freya, of Copenhagen
Selsey, Sussex.—27th June. The s.s.
Holstein, of Bremen, and the s.s. Freya, of Copenhagen, had collided. The Freya needed help but she was towed to Southampton by a tug.—Rewards, £9 12s. 6d..
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...
Annual General Meeting of the Governors
THE Annual General Meeting was held at the Mansion House, in the morning of March 4th, 1924, for the purpose of dealing with statutory business, S r Godfrey Baring, Bt., Chairman of the Committee, presiding.
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Category: Meetings
Ten Years After
The Institution has now completed the full history of the services of life-boats during the war of 1939-45. This has been prepared for purposes of his- torical record and is not for general distribution. The story of the Life-boat Service in...
Category: Services
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
The S.S. City of Venice
CADGWITH, CORNWALL,.—Minute guns having been heard at 9 P.M. on the 20th of March, the Joseph Armstrong Life-boat was very promptly launched, four minutes only being occupied in getting her afloat, and proceeded to the S.W., in which...
The Annual General Meeting
H.R.H. THE DUCHESS OF KENT, Presi- dent of the Institution, attended the annual general meeting of the governors of the Institution at the Central Hall, Westminster, on the 6th of March, 1961, and presented medals for gallantry and other...
Category: Meetings
Services of the Life-Boats of the Institution During 1939
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The S.S. Ellerbeck
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\ on the 15th August information was \ received, by telephone, from the Smalls I Lighthouse that a steamer had gone ashore on the "Hats and Barrels" Rock.
The motor Life-boat...
Sir Alec Rose, Like the True Sailor He Is, Has Spoken With Reverence of the Power of the Sea: 'No One Knows the Sea, Which Is a Great Leveller That Soon Cuts the Big-Headed Sailor Down to Size. In Th
Sir Alec Rose, like the true sailor he is, has spoken with reverence of the power of the sea: 'No one knows the sea, which is a great leveller that soon cuts the big-headed sailor down to size. In the tremendous gales I have experienced... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs