LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Life-Boat Station at Porto De Leixoes, on the Coast North of the River Douro, Portugal
The Life-Boat Station at Porto De Leixoes on the Coast North of the River Douro Portugal. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
CAHORE, Co. WEXFORD.—A messenger arrived at this Life-boat Station from Morris Castle, distant about three Irish miles south, on the evening of the 17th May, and reported that a vessel was stranded on the Blackwater Bank. The Life-boat John...
Category: Services
Saving Life at Sea
To chronicle at the close of each succeed- ing year the notable events which have marked its course, is a very natural and in many ways a useful and profitable duty for statisticians to carry out; and the past year has been anything but un-...
Category: Articles
The Strom Ness Life-Boat Alongside the Crippled Norwegian Vessel Kings Star (1,189 Tons) After She Had Hit the North Shoal—A Dangerous Rock Eight Miles Off The Orkneys
The Strom ness life-boat alongside the crippled Norwegian vessel Kings Star (1,189 tons) after she had hit the North Shoal—a dangerous rock eight miles off the Orkneys.
Also alongside are two of the vessel's own... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Four Gallant Services
AT 11.30 on the morning of the 28th August, 1919, during a strong southerly gale with a very heavy sea and thick rain, the Bembridge Life-boat was launched to the help of an American steamer, the s.s. Wakvlla, of Los Angeles, which had...
Category: Services
Lifeboat Services
POUNDING SEAS BREAK FISHING VESSEL IN HALF Three saved as lifeboat crew battle storm force winds and heavy seas George Duffy, second coxswain/mechanic and Ian Sheridan, deputy second coxswain/assistant mechanic of Howth's Arun class...
Category: Services
A Gala Performance. H.R.H. The Prince of Wales Present
H.R.H. the Prince of Wales Present.
H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, K.G., President of the Institution, was present at the Plaza Theatre, on 29th November, at a gala performance, in aid of the life- boat service, at which the...
Category: Articles
Schilleen
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At 4.45 on the afternoon of the 20th of September, 1954, the life-boat coxswain reportedthat while he was on his way in from sea in his fishing boat, he had seen the yacht Schilleen in a dangerous position about...
Gipsy King of Glasgow
— The schooner Gipsy King, of Glasgow, was totally wrecked during a heavy gale of wind on the Dulas Rocks, on the Anglesey coast, on the 17th October. At daybreak, during fearful weather, one of the crew was seen floating on a piece of...
Zeehond
Plymouth, Torbay, and Salcombe, Devon.
—On the evening of the 9th January, with a strong south-westerly gale blowing, and a very heavy sea, information was received through the coastguard that signals of distress had been...