LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Spray
At 2.52 p.m. on I2th October, 1966, a fishing vessel had broken down about one mile off the coastguard lookout hut at Foreness point and one of the five occupants was waving an oar with a white shirt attached. The life-boat Elizabeth Elson,...
When a Child Became Sick Aboard the Educational Cruise Ship Dunera In July, 1966, She Altered Course to Rendezvous With the Lowestoft Life-Boat Three Miles Off The Coast
When a child became sick aboard the educational cruise ship Dunera in July, 1966, she altered course to rendezvous with the Lowestoft life-boat three miles off the coast. - View image in PDF
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Category: Photographs
The Life-Boat House
The boats of the NATIONAL LIFB-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution
BUDEHAVEN, CORNWALL.—On the 31st of August, 1863, a large ship without masts, which afterwards proved to be the Conflict, an old sloop of war, of 2,000 tons, bound from Plymouth to Bristol, in ballast, to be broken up, was observed in tow of...
Category: Services
and on Her Way to the 'Casualty'
. . . and on her way to the 'casualty' . . .. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Ready for the Start of Exmouth Carnival Procession Last Summer Old Pulling Lifeboat the Bedford Lent By Exeter Maritime Museum for the Occasion She Was Manned By
Ready for the start of Exmouth Carnival Procession last summer, old pulling lifeboat The Bedford, lent by Exeter Maritime Museum for the occasion. She was manned by members of Exmouth lifeboat crew. Photograph by courtesy of L. W. Aplin..<... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Freighter Dovrefjell, of Oslo
Longhope, Orkneys, and Wick, Caith- ness-shire.—At 4.22 on the morning of the 3rd of February, 1956, the freighter Dovrefjell, of Oslo, a converted tanker, wirelessed that she had gone aground in the Pentland Skerries but was in no immediate...
The Call for the Life-Boat
BOOM! Booml The sound of the signal gun Thrills the heart, as it startles the ear, And swift as their flying feet can run The men rush out as the sound they hear; And swift as their strong hands can undo, Shackle and fastenings are undone...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, 4th April, 1861. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R S., V.P., in the Chair.
Head and approved the Minutes of the previous Meetings, and those of the Finance, Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward...
Category: Committee
The Wreck of the Anzio I
ON the night of 2nd /3rd April, 1966, the motor vessel Anzio I went aground.
The Humber life-boat was launched. She was unable to save any lives, but for the attempt which she made in extremely severe conditions Coxswain...
Category: Services