LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Danish Motor Vessel Baradrangur
BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT FRASERBURGH FEBRUARY 8TH. - FRASER-BURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE. In the night the Danish motor vessel Baradrangur, of Trangisvoag, with a crew of five, went ashore on the sandsto the south of Fraserburgh. Very heavy seas were...
The Mumbles Lifeboat Memorial Window at All Saints Church Oystermouth Commemorating the Loss of the Eight Crew of the Lifeboat Edward Prince of Wales on Apr
The Mumbles Lifeboat Memorial Window at All Saints Church, Oystermouth, commemorating the loss of the eight crew of the lifeboat Edward, Prince of Wales on April 23, 1947, on service to ss Samtampa, was unveiled on May 6 by the Duke of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Augvold and Queen of the Isles
DUNMORE EAST, Co. WATERFORD.—The Life-boat Henry Dodd was launched at 10 A.M. on the 21st February and rendered assistance to the Norwegian brigantine Augvold by leading her over the bar into the harbour. Two of the Life-boat men •were put...
Race to the rescue
Our lifesavers usually rescue one or a few people at a time – but in May they were called to over 80 swimmers struggling against a powerful tide …
It was a deceptively calm and sunny day on 26...
Category: Articles
The Norwegian Coaster Sonnodd
Norwegian coaster towed off reef by Mallaig lifeboat On 16 April 1991, coxswain Tommy Ralston of Mallaig lifeboat station sighted from his house the Norwegian coaster Sonnodd heading for the reef to the north of Mallaig...
The S.S. Lancashire Coast, of Liverpool (1)
MARCH 2 6TH. - TOBERMORY, AND BARRA ISLAND, HEBRIDES. At 6.30 in the morning the Kyle coastguard telephoned that a ship was in difficulties and making water six miles south-south-east of Ardnamurchan Light. The Tobermory motor life-boat Sir...
The End of Hms Foudroyant
The end of HMS Foudroyant, one of Nelson's flagships which in her last years was used as a training ship for boys. White anchored off Blackpool on June 16, 1897, a gale blew up and she dragged aground. The lifeboat Samuel Fletcher of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Resolutions Passed at the Annual Meeting for 1864
THE RIGHT HON. SIR JOHN S. PAKINGTON, Bart., G.C.B., M.P., in the Chair.
1.—Moved by the Chairman :— 1.—That the following noblemen and gentlemen be the Officers of the Institution for the current year:—(vide last page for...
Category: Meetings
The Late George Lennox Watson, Consulting Naval Architect to the Institution 1887-1904
IT is fifty years this year since George Lennox Watson, the yacht designer, of Glasgow, was appointed consulting naval architect to the Institution.
Looking back over these fifty years, one can say that Mr. Watson's...
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