LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Mayflower
Hoylake, Cheshire.—At 5.30 A.M. on the 22nd April, 1939, the coastguard reported that t'u s.s. Mayflower, of Liverpool, loaded with stone, on passage from Penmaenmawr, North Wales, to Liverpool, had gone aground on East Hoyle Bank at 2 A...
An Aeroplane (12)
APRIL 15TH. - SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.
A Blenheim bomber had been reported down in the sea, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £20 12s. 6d..
Mrs Teresa Smellie President of the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Branch of the Ladies' Life-Boat Guild Has Been Made An Honorary Life Governor of the RNLI In Reco
Mrs. Teresa Smellie, president of the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston branch of the ladies' life-boat guild, has been made an honorary life governor of the R.N.L.I, in recognition of her 40 years' service on behalf of the life-boat... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
She Is Ex-Lifeboat the Three Sisters (On771),
• She is ex-lifeboat The Three Sisters (ON771), a 35ft motor Liverpool lifeboat. She was stationed at Coverack, Cornwall, between 1934 and 1954 where she launched 26 times saving 61 lives. She was sold out of service in 1964 and has had a... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Register of Shipwrecks
REGISTER OF SHIPWRECKS ON THE COASTS
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Category: Articles
Scottish Coxswain Made An M.B.E.
Coxswain John MacLeod, of Thurso, Caithness-shire, who a year ago won the Institution's bronze medal for rescuing two exhausted Norwegians from a ship's raft, when it was within 200 yard* of the rocks in a heavy sea, has now been...
Category: Articles
The Steamship Tripoli, of Glasgow
Pour days afterwards the Life-boat was again called out on service, when the steamship Tripoli, of Glasgow, went oa the Tuskar Shoal, while the mad was blowing strongly from the North. The Wexford No. 2, and Camsore Life-boats both put off,...
An Interesting New Concept In Lifeboat Design from Sweden.
An interesting new concept in lifeboat design from Sweden. Designed to combine the advantages of conventional construction and the RIB, the perimeter tubing is solid rather than inflatable.
Two of these lifeboats have now... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Aeroplane (56)
APRIL 11TH. - DUNBAR, EAST LOTHIAN.
A British aeroplane had come down in the sea, but a destroyer rescued the pilot.
- Rewards, £4 7s. 6d..
Galway Crew Thanked
A letter has been received from the Greek Ministry of Merchant Marine highly commending the courage and resolution of the crew of the Galway Bay life-boat when she went to the help of the motor vessel Razani and her crew of eight on 26th...
Category: Correspondence