LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Small change, big hearts
It’s a Saturday afternoon in Manchester, 1891. Thousands flock to the city’s streets to catch a glimpse of something they have never seen before: lifeboat crew members and their lifesaving craft. As the lifeboats – from the...
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The Spanish Steam Trawlers Evaristo Perez and Teresa Camposa
Ballycotton, Co. Cork. — During a thick fog on the afternoon of the 2nd May sirens were heard sounding continuously.
A moderate east breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea. The motor life-boat Mary Stanford was launched at...
Offshore Lifeboat Services June July and August 1975
Aldeburgh, Suffolk July 19.
Amble, Northumberland July 21.
Angle, Dyfed June 13, July 11, 21, 31 and August 6.
Anstruther, Tayside August 2.
Arklow, Co. Wicklow July 15,...
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The P&O Liner Oceana and The German Barque Pisagua
The P. & O. liner Oceana, which left London on the 15th March, with a large number of passengers, for Bombay, collided when off Beachy Head in the early morning of the 16th March with the German barque Pisagua.
The...
Offshore Lifeboat Services December 1978 January and February 1979
Angle, Dyfed December 1, January 21 and February 10 Arbroath, Angus January 11 Arklow, Co. Wicklow December 13 Arranmore, Co. Donegal December 30, January 30, February 17 and 26 Baltimore, Co. Cork December 22, January 8 and February 9...
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The S.S. Flandres and the Liberian Steamer Trader
Dover and Walmer, Kent. At 2.24 on the morning of the 16th of October, 1957, the Deal coastguard reported that the S.S. Flandres, of Antwerp, had been in collision with the Liberian steamer Trader four miles south-east of the Goodwin Sands,...
H.M. Trawler Flotta and H.M. Trawler Filey Bay
NOVEMBER 6TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At about 9.15 in the evening the naval officer in charge asked, through the coastguard, for the life-boat to be ready to launch to the help of H.M. Trawler Flotta.
The Style Rank and Title of Honorary Burgess of Beaumaris
The style, rank and title of Honorary Burgess of Beaumaris has recently been conferred upon Beaumaris lifeboat station. Councillor Stan Zalot, Mayor of the town and also a lifeboatman, presented the certificate and a town crest to Sir... - View image in PDF
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Pictures Above and Below Show the Longhope Lifeboat, the David and Elizabeth King and E.B., Just Before the Naming Was Done By Mrs. Marian Thornton, An Edinburgh Solicitor's Wife, Who Was N
Pictures above and below show the Longhope lifeboat, the David and Elizabeth King and E.B., just before the naming was done by Mrs. Marian Thornton, an Edinburgh solicitor's wife, who was nominated by the family of Miss Charlotte A. King... - View image in PDF
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Royal National Life-Boat Institution. Its Object and Work
(Supported solely by Voluntary Contributions.) ITS OBJECT AND WORK.
The work of the Institution mainly consists of— 1. Building, equipping and maintaining Life-boats, transporting carriages, boathouses and slipways,...
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