LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
While Touring Northern Ireland on April 4 Hrh the Duke of Kent President of the Institution
While touring Northern Ireland on April 4, HRH The Duke of Kent, president of the Institution, called at Donaghadee lifeboat station and went out for a short trip in the 44ft Waveney lifeboat Arthur and Blanche Harris.
He... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Eminence, of Rochester
NOVEMBER 27TH. - TORBAY, DEVON.
At 7.25 at night a message was received from the Berry Head coastguard that the S.S.
Eminence, of Rochester, had anchored in Torbay. She had a man on board with an injured...
(Above Right) 44Ft Waveney the White Rose of Yorkshire In Whitby Harbour: She Was Named In May 1975 By Hrh the Duchess of Kent Who Went Out for a Trial Run
(Above, right) 44ft Waveney The White Rose of Yorkshire in Whitby Harbour: She was named in May 1975 by HRH The Duchess of Kent, who went out for a trial run after the ceremony.
photograph by courtesy of J. P... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck. Appeal
Royal National Life-Boat Institution, for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.
(Incorporated by Royal Charter.) FOUNDED d 1824.—SUPPORTED BY VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS.
Patroness—HER MOST GRACIOUS...
Category: Advertisement
Boat Handling In Storm Force Winds
At the annual presentation of awards last May Coxswain William Jones of Holyhead and Second Coxswain Victor Pitman of Weymouth both received silver medals for gallantry and Second Coxswain Keith Bower a gold medal; all were for services...
Category: Meetings
An Aeroplane (6)
JULY 3RD. - BEAUMARIS, AND HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY. A wrecked aeroplane had been reported in the sea about twenty miles north of the Skerries, but nothing could be found. - Rewards : Beaumaris, £11 11s. 9d. ; Holyhead, £6 5s..
Harbours of Refuge
WE have on several occasions called attention, in the columns of the Life-Soot Journal, to the great necessity that existed for additional harbours of refuge being constructed on some points of the coasts.
Many of our...
Category: Articles
Nil Desperandum
SEAMAN LANDED Exmouth, Devon. At 9.15 p.m. on I4th December, 1963, the shore attendant informed the honorary secretary that the second coxswain had gone fishing at two o'clock and had not returned to harbour.
The...
Wives of the Crew of the Arbroath Angus
Wives of the crew of the Arbroath, Angus, life-boat being presented to Princess Marina at the naming ceremony on 21st May, 1958.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Screw Steamer Alexandra, of London
Early on the morning of the 9th February, a rocket was seen from | the end of the Breakwater, thrown in an easterly direction, denoting a vessel re- quiring assistance. As the weather was comparatively fine at the time the pilots' and...