LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Stassa, of Panama
Stornoway, Outer Hebrides, and Life-boat 70-002 - At 5.20 a.m. on 15th July, 1966, a vessel was reported ashore at Renish point off Rodel. The life-boat The James and Margaret Boyd left her moorings at 5.50 in a moderate variable wind and a...
Eros and the Escort Vessel Challenger
NOVEMBER 3RD. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE. At 7 P.M. a message was received from the Kinnaird Head coastguard that a wireless call for help had been received by way of the R.A.F. Station at Rosehearty. The life-boat crew were assembled and...
S.S. James Otis, of San Francisco
FEBRUARY 7TH. - SALCOMBE, DEVON.
At 3.45 in the morning the naval authorities at Salcombe informed the coxswain that a ship was ashore at Lannacombe Bay. A fresh west-south-west wind was blowing, with a moderately rough sea...
Notes of the Quarter
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 155 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to 31st December, 1956 80,578 Notes of the Quarter THE year 1956 was one in which greater...
Category: Articles
The Austrian Brig, Tregiste
On the 14th Nov. the Austrian brig, Tregiste, 333 tons, of Trieste, anchored for shelter, during a terrific gale from the east, under Lambay Island, near Dublin.
On the 15th she had dragged her anchors nearly half way...
H.R.H. The Duchess of Kent's Presidential Address
THE meeting to-day has a twofold purpose; to hear about the work of the Institution during 1946; and to pay our tribute to the gallant self-sacrifice of The Mumbles life-boat crew, for whose families we all have the deepest...
Category: Meetings
A German Messerschmitt Pilot His Head Bandaged Because of An Injury Being Landed By the Dungeness Lifeboat on October 7 1940
A German Messerschmitt pilot, his head bandaged because of an injury, being landed by the Dungeness lifeboat on October 7, 1940.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Help of the Churches
The Presbyterian Church of England and the Society of Friends.
IN addition to the numerous thanks- giving services which were arranged individually by Branches, two Churches, the Presbyterian Church of England, and the...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution—Continued
DONNA NOOK, LINCOLNSHIRE. — A fearful gale was experienced on this coast on the 30th September, 1871. In the midst of the storm an Italian barque, the Three Sisters, became a complete wreck, attended with an agonizing and consider- able loss...
Category: Services