LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Prince of Wales and the Life-Boat Service. Speeches of His Royal Highness at the Annual General Meeting on the 18th March, 1893
" As your chairman to-day it is my duty to move the first resolution, which is ' That the report now read be adopted, printed and circulated.' The last occasion on which I had the satisfaction of presiding at the Annual...
Category: Meetings
Susanna, of Portsmouth
JULY 16TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT. At 10.55 at night the coastguard reported flares near the South Shingles Buoy, and at 11.20 the motor life-boat Prudential was launched in a north-westerly breeze, with a moderate sea. She searched for some time,...
Coxswain Peter Thomson Aboard the White Rose of Yorkshire In Her Pen Moored on Vertical Sliding Moorings With Low Friction Fenders She Rises and Falls With the Tid
Coxswain Peter Thomson aboard The White Rose of Yorkshire in her pen. Moored on vertical sliding moorings, with low friction fenders, she rises and falls with the tide. - View image in PDF
Boarding is by vertical ladder.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Portrait of a Coxswain
Coxswain Richard Walsh, of the Rosslare Harbour, County Wexford, life-boat—the new 48-foot 6-inch Oakley which is described on page 678. He became bowman in 1938, second coxswain in 1941 and finally coxswain in 1946. Coxswain Walsh was... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Peeks of Bournemouth
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Category: Advertisement
A Picture of Success
Lady Winifred Hilton with the Deputy Mayor of Chesterfield as he presents the painting to raffle winner, Commander S. Sampson RN(Retd). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
45 Months of War.
In 45 months of war out life-boats have rescued 5177 lives and our lifeboatmen have won 181 medals for gallantry..
Category: Articles
Comedies of a Cow—And a Burning Chimney
THE false alarms which call out life- boats are very varied. On the 26th October last, with a gale blowing, the Plymouth motor life-boat put out— because a cow had gone wandering.
At 6.30 in the evening the coastguard at...
Category: Articles
The Faroese Fishing Vessel Albert Victor, of Vaag
APRIL. 10TH. - ABERDEEN. The Faroese fishing vessel Albert Victor, of Vaag, with a cargo of fish, arrived off Aberdeen during the afternoon and was instructed to go to Hull.
A pilot went on board her, but her compass was...
Lady Westmorland, of Newcastle
Early on the morning of the 24th January, during blowing weather and in a very hard frost, this noble boat and her consort were again the means of rendering good service to a shipwrecked crew. They went out in ready response to signal-guns...