LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Life-Boat Saturday Fund
EVERYBODY is complaining that trade and business are bad, and that as a result any effort to raise money for charitable purposes requires an operation similar to that time-honoured one of extracting "blood from a stone" ! It is sad...
Category: Articles
Victorian photographer’s art of glass
In a nod to his craft’s Victorian heritage, one Newcastle-based photographer is visiting every lifeboat station with his 110-year-old camera and glass plate technology.
Using a former NHS ambulance as a mobile darkroom,...
Category: Articles
Wreck Chart of the British Isles for the Year 1883-84
SHOWING ALSO THK PltESKrfT LICK BOAT STATIONS OF THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE BOAT INSTITUTION • SIGNIFIES A CASUALTY.
REPRESENTS A LIFEBOAT..
Category: Charts
The Present Lynmouth Life-Boat
The life-boat, Prichard Frederick Gainer, is returning from service on the 13th of last July. - View image in PDF
Countisbury Hill can be seen in the background.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Sailing Boat
30th July. A sailing boat was seen endeavouring to land in a gale. She succeeded unaided.
—Rewards, £10 12s..
A Small Boat (1)
25th June.
Anxiety was felt for two men in a small boat, but they made land safely.— Rewards, £8 15s..
A Boat
Peel, Isle of Man.—13th July. An upturned boat was reported drifting off Niarbyl Point, but nothing was found.
—Rewards, £25 7s..
A Small Yacht (1)
Courtmacsherry Harbour, Co. •—Cork.
20th August. A small yacht dragged her anchors and went aground, but crew swam ashore.—Rewards, £5 Os..
Ewy
8th December.
The Swedish steamer Ewy, of Seine, appeared to be in difficulties, but weathered the storm.—Rewards, £15.
A Pleasure Boat
26th January.
A pleasure boat—a converted life-boat —drifted away, but there was no one on board.—Rewards, £9 2s. 6d..