LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Baron Ruthven
FEBRUARY 4TH. - TEESMOUTH, YORKSHIRE.
At 12.30 A.M. a message was received from the Teesmouth coastguard that the S.S. Baron Ruthven, of Glasgow, was ashore on the North Gare, and that a tug was standing by. Half an hour...
Major Sir Maurice Cameron, K.C.M.G.
By the death on 16th May, at the age of eighty, of Major Sir Maurice Cameron, K.C.M.G., a vice-president of the Institution, the committee of manage- ment have lost one of their most valued and active members. After a dis- tinguished career,...
Category: Obituaries
Lily of Devon
The Lowestoft Life-boat.
The Lowestoft Motor Life-boat, a few miles to the south of Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, would have been launched to the help of the Georgia instead of the Southwold boat, but on the afternoon...
The Work Boat Gille Brighde
Crew rescue man trapped in capsized fishing vessel James McPhee, the coxswain of Campbeltown lifeboat, has been awarded the Thanks of the RNLI inscribed on Vellum following a service to the work boat Gille Brighde, when she capsized on 29...
The Sailing Ship Ellie Park
MARCH 2lST. - GIRVAN. AYRSHIRE.
At 9.45 P.M. the police reported that a vessel was ashore about one mile south of Turnberry Lighthouse and was showing flares.
The weather was calm but there was a dense fog...
Ellen, of Liverpool
On the 13th November, the schooner Ellen, of Li- verpool, laden with freestone, on entering the River Dee, struck on the bar at its mouth, in a strong breeze from the S.S.E.
Information of the same having been con- veyed...
Boy Billy, Our Boys and June Rose
Sheringham, Norfolk. At 7.15 on the morning of the 17th of April, 1959, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that three local fishing boats were at sea in deteriorating weather.
The life-boat Foresters Centenary was...
The S.S. Baron Elcho
Campbeltown, Argyllshire. — During the morning of the 28th of June, 1952, a radio telegram was received from the S.S. Baron Elcho, of Ardrossan, that she was making for Campbeltown to land a very badly injured seaman.
She...
The Antarctic—Off Devon
The Salcombe life-boat carrying supplies to Hope Cove. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs