LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Coryton (1)
FEBRUARY 16TH. - NORTH SUNDERLAND, AND HOLY ISLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At 8.10 in the morning the coastguard reported to the North Sunderland life-boat station that a ship was ashore on the Farne Islands. She was the S.S....
The Fishing Trawler Fairway
Trawler broken down A FISHING TRAWLER, Fairway, broken down and drifting towards shore about eight miles south of Lyme Regis was reported to the honorary secretary of Torbay lifeboat station at 0032 on Saturday December 2, 1978. The...
One Crew Member from Newquay's D Class Can Be Seen at the Edge of the Breakers
One crew member from Newquay's D class can be seen at the edge of the breakers with one of the casualties, while another is pan-way up the cliff helping a second casualty.
The combined efforts of the lifeboat,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Fireglow and the S.S. Deerpool
NOV. 12TH. - THE HUMBER, YORK.
SHIRE. At about 7 P.M. information was received from the Withernsea coastguard that a vessel was making S.O.S. signals on her foghorn from the position of the Danish steamer Canada which had...
The New Fleet
LONG before the war ended the Institution had made plans to rebuild a great part of its fleet. It lost six boats, destroyed by the enemy, and more serious even than this loss were the delays. In the last four years of the war the building of...
Category: Articles
At the Sharp End
• Wo matter how experienced and well prepared you are every small-boat sailor knows that problems can still arise seemingly out of the blue. This was some consolation to the RNLI's own Chief of Operations during the Round the Island Race...
Category: Services
Visitors from America; Mr and Mrs Charles S Morgan from Massachusetts Are Welcomed to Barmouth By Coxswain George Jeffs With Them (I- to R) Are Motor Mechanic Dewi Davies Mr I M Jo
Visitors from America; Mr and Mrs Charles S. Morgan from Massachusetts are welcomed to Barmouth by Coxswain George Jeffs.
With them (I- to r.) are Motor Mechanic Dewi Davies, Mr I. M. Jones, station honorary secretary, and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Late Lord Lawrence
THE memory of the late distinguished Viceroy of India will, like many of his great predecessors, be long honoured and held in affectionate remembrance. Lord Lawrence took considerable interest in the welfare of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT...
Category: Obituaries
Pulling Their Weight for the Lifeboat
Many local organisations and clubs in Filey have arranged special fund raising events throughout the year to help fund Filey' s new Mersey class lifeboat, due on station early in 1991. But none can have been more spectacular than the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Jordan Glycerine Barometer
ON the 25th of October last The Times published for the first time a remarkable alteration in its usual daily chart of the barometer, and considering the import- ance of the subject, we append its intro- ductory remarks, and also an exact...
Category: Articles