LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
To the Help of the Invasion Port
Several life-boats have been to the help of sections of the great invasion port, built at Arroraanches on the coast of Normandy, when they were being towed to Fiance, Dungeness took out a relief crew and food to a "phoenix", or...
Category: Articles
Galvanised Steel Section Columns and Bracing Members Were Bolted Together on the Beach and Then (Right) Lifted Into Place By Crane at Low Water
Galvanised steel section columns and bracing members were bolted together on the beach and then (right) lifted into place by crane at low water.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Life-Boat Regulations
THE following Regulations are intended for the guidance of the Local Committee to be formed at each place at which a life-boat is stationed by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT Is- srmrnoN, and to whose care and control the life-boat, her crew, and...
Category: Articles
Notes of the Quarter
THE disaster at Seaham Harbour, in which 5 members of the life-boat crew and 4 people who had been taken off a fishing boat by the life-boat all lost their lives, shocked and distressed the nation.
The life-boat capsized at...
Category: Articles
The Icelandic Coaster Tungufoss
Coaster founders AN ICELANDIC COASTER, Tungufoss, in distress four miles south of Longships Lighthouse, was reported by Land's End Coastguard to the deputy launching authority of Sennen Cove lifeboatstation at 2027 on Saturday September...
Resolutions Passed at the Annual General Meeting for 1909
THE RIGHT HON. LORD GEORGE F. HAMILTON, G.C.S.I., is THE CHAIR.
Moved by The Chairman.
Seconded by SIR JOHN CAMERON LAMB, C.B., C.M.G.
1. That the Annual Report be adopted, printed and...
Category: Meetings
Notes of the Quarter
A NUMBER of outstanding services were carried out by life-boat crews in the first quarter of 1962. Of these one of the finest was by a life-boat crew in the Irish Republic ; another was by a crew in Northern Ireland, and a third by the crew...
Category: Articles
The Swiss Steamer Lugano
Berwick-on-Tweed, Northumberland.
—At seven o'clock on the evening of the 16th of November, 1952, the coast- guard telephoned that a vessel east-by- north of the pier had signalled for a doctor as her master felt ill....
The St. Gowan Lightvessel.
Tenby, Pembrokeshire - At 10.40 p.m. on 27th June, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that there was an injured man on board the St. Gowan light vessel. The life-boat White Star was launched with a doctor on board at 11.14...
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 7th June, 1866. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward...
Category: Committee