LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Heavy Gales of October and November Last
THE unusually heavy gale, or rather hurricane, of the night of the 24th October last, was unexampled in its work of destruction in our maritime records. During the whole of that day not a single casualty, with one trifling exception,...
Category: Articles
After Naming the Torbay Boat the Duke of Kent Accompanied By the Duchess Went Up on Her Flying Bridge for a Trip to Sea
After naming the Torbay boat, the Duke of Kent, accompanied by the Duchess, went up on her flying bridge for a trip to sea.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Store-Yard of the National Life-Boat Institution
THE annexed engraving represents the Store-yard of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION. It comprises sheds for stowage of Life-boats and their carriages, a rigging loft and ample store-rooms, an office for the storekeeper in charge, and two...
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The Wreck Register and Chart for the Year Ended the 30th June, 1903
THE British Public is much indebted to the BOARD OF TKADE for the carefully prepared tables and statistics which it provides year by year in connection with the shipping disasters which occur on or near the coasts of the United...
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The Cashier
LITTLE HAVEN, PEMBROKESHIRE.—On the 15th February, while a strong gale was blowing from W.N.W., accompanied by a heavy sea, intelligence was received that a large barque which was lying in St. Bride's Bay was dragging her anchors and was...
Anniversary of Grace Darling's Rescue
The 1th September, 1963, was the 25th anniversary of the famous rescue by Grace Darling and her father of survivors from the Forfarshire. The following article, which has been specially written for the Life-boat by Commander W....
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The Southwold Life-Boats, 1840-1916 (Continued from Page 167). By Ernest R. Cooper, Hon Secretary
ANOTHER distressing wreck occurred just to the north of the town, on Sunday morning, the 13th January, 1895, when, after a heavy S.E. by S.
gale all night with snow squalls, the brig James and Eleanor, of Shields, was seen...
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War and the Life-Boat Service
THE War, the greatest in which a nation has ever been involved, has entirely absorbed public interest, and the purses which have been so generously opened to the innumerable appeals in connexion with the War have, almost of necessity, been...
Category: Articles
An Aeroplane (13)
JANUARY 26TH. - COVERACK, CORNWALL.
A British aeroplane was reported to have crashed off The Manacles, and the life-boat got away in three minutes, but she found nothing. - Rewards, £11 14s. 3d..
An Aeroplane (2)
JANUARY 14TH. - PADSTOW, CORNWALL.
An aeroplane had been reported to have crashed into the sea off Trevose Head, but the life-boat was recalled. - Rewards, £6..