LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Norwegian Coaster Sonnodd Is Escorted Back Into Mallaig Harbour By the Station Lifeboat Duchess of Kent
The Norwegian coaster Sonnodd is escorted back into Mallaig Harbour by the station lifeboat Duchess of Kent.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Feature Old Friends...
The first of the Thames lifeboats was officially named in June, marking the latest in a long legacy of lifeboats provided by The Lifeboat Fund. The early civil servants, who got together in 1866 to buy a single lifeboat, would have been...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Appeals
North East A Tyneside lifeboat appeal has been launched in the North East under the patronage of Their Graces the Duke and Duchess of Northumberland to contribute towards the cost of the 52ft Arun lifeboat which has recently gone on station...
Category: Articles
The Wreck Register and Chart for the Year Ended the 30th June, 1897
THE BOARD OP TRADE have recently! issued their very interesting Annual Blue Book, furnishing abstracts of the returns made to the Board of shipping casualties occurring on or near the coasts of the United Kingdom. The statistics now...
Category: Articles
Ira (1)
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk. On I4th February, 1966, the assistant honorary secretary was asked by the agents of the trawler Ira to lay an anchor and stand by while an attempt was made to refloat the vessel. At noon the life-boat...
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 4th June, 1874: THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.f., Chairman of the Institution , in the Chair. ' Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Corre- spondence, and Wreck and Reward....
Category: Committee
Here and There
Bradford and District branch has presented former Lord Mayor, Councillor Tom Hall, with a leather-bound book containing the names of the thousands of people who have contributed to his appeal for funds to cover the cost of a new lifeboat at...
Category: Articles
"Catherine Booth." The Salvation Army's Life-Boat on the Coast of Norway
The following article has been written for The Lifeboat by an officer in the Salvation Army, while, the note attached to it gives some general particulars about the Norwegian Life-boat Service, which we haw received from its...
Category: Articles
The New York Life-Saving Benevolent Association
IT can scarcely fail to be interesting to such of our readers as take an interest in the subject of saving lives from shipwreck to know what is being done in furtherance of that humane object in other countries than our own. To learn how far...
Category: Articles
The Screw Steamer Alexandra, of London
Early on the morning of the 9th February, a rocket was seen from | the end of the Breakwater, thrown in an easterly direction, denoting a vessel re- quiring assistance. As the weather was comparatively fine at the time the pilots' and...