LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The White Star Cargo Vessel The Bardic
About 1.30 in the morning of 31st August, in very thick weather, with a moderate sea, the White Star cargo vessel, the Bardic, of 7,000 tons, ran on the Maenheck Rock, about half a mile south-west of the Life-boat Station at The Lizard. The...
Services of Life-Boats
Barmouth.—At midnight, on the 25th of July last, the smack, Ann and Catherine, of Barmouth, stranded on the bar off that place, the wind blowing a gale from W. S. W. at the time. At 2 A.M. the Barmouth life- boat, belonging to the National...
Category: Services
Members of the Crew of the New Eyemouth Berwickshire 44' Waveney Lifeboat Named Eric Seal In Memory of the Late Sir Eric Seal Kbe Cb a Former Vice-President
Members of the crew of the new Eyemouth, Berwickshire, 44' Waveney lifeboat, named Eric Seal in memory of the late Sir Eric Seal, KBE, CB, a former vice-president of the RNLI and chairman of the Civil Service and Post Office Lifeboat... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Right Honourable Edward R G Heath Pc Mbe Mp Was Guest Speaker at the Afternoon Meeting and Also Presented the Awards With Him Seated Are the Duke Atholl Chairman of the Inst
The Right Honourable Edward R. G. Heath, PC MBE MP, was guest speaker at the afternoon meeting and also presented the awards. With him, seated, are the Duke of Atholl, Chairman of the Institution, and Rear Admiral W. J. Graham, Director.<... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
You Can't Park That 'Ere…
The Tyne class lifeboat Ethel Anne Measures stationed at The Mumbles was at sea for five hours on 28 January 1994 when she stood by the 560ft Indian-registered freighter Vishva Parag whose cargo had shifted causing her to list heavily. She... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Her Majesty the Queen's Recognition of Gallant Conduct
THE destruction by fire of H. M.'s troop-ship Birkenhead, in 1852, and of the hired transport Europa,* in 1854, will no doubt be remembered by many of our readers.
Both catastrophes were attended by lamentable loss of...
Category: Articles
Eric Tevison, a Medical Student of Wanstead, and Jennifer Jackson of Chigwell Cycled By Tandem from John O''Groats to Lands End to Raise Funds for the RNLI In 'The
Eric Tevison, a medical student of Wanstead, and Jennifer Jackson of Chigwell cycled by tandem from John O''Groats to Lands End to raise funds for the RNLI in 'The Year of the Lifeboat'.
Despite high winds,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Inaugural Ceremony of the Buckie Motor Life-Boat
THIS Motor Life-boat went from Cowes to her Station by sea in August, 1922, but it was found necessary to postpone the actual ceremony of inaugurating the boat until the spring of this year. The Boat is of the Watson type, 45 feet by 11 feet...
Category: Inaugurations
The Norwegian Screw Steamer Woodham
On the 1st Feb. the Resent, the Life-boat of this station, was transported by land to Chilton Chine, and launched in a heavy S.E. gale and snowstorm, to the assistance of the Norwegian screw steamer Woodham.
The Life-boat...