LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Louis Sheid and Tajandoen (1)
SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT SALCOMBE DEC. 7TH. - SALCOMBE, AND PLYMOUTH, DEVON. Early in the morning the Belgian steamer Louis Sheid, of over 6,000 tons, was in the English Channel on her way to Antwerp. She had a crew of forty-six men. She saw...
The Yarmouth Life-Boats. (Continued from "The Life-Boat," August, 1918, p. 233.)
THE night will long be remembered for the almost unparalleled violence of the gale which swept over England, leaving a track of ruin and devastation such as is rarely seen in our temperate climate.
In Gorleston itself the...
Category: Services
President Visits Scottish Stations
During his visit to Longhope HRH The Duke of Kent met James Adams who retired that week after 28 years service aboard the station's lifeboats.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Challenge to Branches. The Record of the Poole and Bournemouth Committee
The Record of the Poole and Bournemouth Committee.
IN the article in the last issue of The Lifeboat on the Life-boat Station at : Appledore, which celebrated its centenary last summer, was given the re-markable record of...
Category: Branches
Glencoe, Mistley, Cambria, Decima, Nelson,Verona and Houston City
SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT SOUTHEND - ON - SEA DECEMBER 6-11TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. The gale of the 5th of December, in which the motor life-boat Greater London (Civil Service No. 3) had been out for five hours and had towed in a...
The Life-Boat Service In 1950
THERE were 603 launches of life-boats to the rescue in 1950, only 36 below the record number in 1949—and life-boats rescued 381 lives. Ninety-one lives were rescued by shore-boats, for which the rescuers were rewarded by the Institution,...
Category: Articles
Lives Lost, 1853
The whole loss of lives during the year, as far as has been ascertained, amounts to 989.
Of these, 18 went down with the Herdd, which sunk off the Start, after collision with a schooner at night, on 10th January; 83 in the...
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Services of the Life-Boats of the Institution During 1952
Persons rescued from shipwreck Time of ! Launching 4. 12.15 p.m. Valentia life-boat took a doctor and stores to Blasket Island.
6. 11.20a.m. Sennen Cove life-boat took doctors and a nurse to St. Mary's,...
Category: Services
William Jones and Sylph
THURSO.—The Life-boat Charley Lloyd was launched at 10 o'clock on the night of the 26th November, during a heavy gale from the N., snow, and a high sea, to the assistance of the schooners William Jones, of Carnarvon, and Sylph, of...
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