LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Stitch In Time
A stitch in time...
could save a lifeboat from launching The RNLI has started an initiative to slow the seemingly inexorable increase in lifeboat launches - by working to prevent incidents occurring in the first...
Category: Articles
Thoughts on the Art of Street Collecting By Clive Porter Second Coxswain Teesmouth Life-Boat
THERE is an art in most things, and carrying a collecting tin for the R.N.L.I.
can be of great interest. Nothing could be more absorbing than spending a day in the street persuading the public that our cause is worth...
Category: Articles
The S.S. City of Kobe
DEC. 19TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At 3.5 A . M .
news was received by wireless from the Cross Sand Light-vessel, through the coastguard, that an explosion had occurred, followed by red flares, about two...
Royal National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
National Institution FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.
ESTABLISHED IN 1824.
SUPPORTED BY VOLUNTARY SUBSCRIPTIONS.
PATRONESS.
HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE...
Category: Advertisement
The S.S. Clewbay, of Belfast
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford—At 11.45 in the morning of the 21st of April, 1948, the steamer lerne, of the Irish Lights Commissioners, wirelessed that a vessel was stranded on the east side of the Blackwatcr Bank. The same message was...
An Aeroplane (114)
AUGUST 31ST. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. An aeroplane had crashed over the Naze, and the pilot was seen to leave the machine by parachute, but he could not be found, and it was learnt later that he had come down on land. - Rewards, £6...
The S.S. Lesrix and S.S. Empire Pilgrim
JANUARY 26TH. - NEWBURGH, AND ABERDEEN, ABERDEENSHIRE. On the 25th January a very heavy storm of wind and snow broke on the coast. All roads and railways became blocked with snow, making traffic impossible, and telephone wires were broken....
Delarue Ile Molene. Kerloch St. Pierre Penmarc'h. Lepretre Gravelines. Coxswains of Life-Boats of the French Society Decorated In 1922 With the Legion of Honour
Coxswains of Life-boats of the French Society decorated in 1922 with the Legion of Honour.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Corbon, of Newcastle
About four o'clock on the morning of the 7th April, the steamer Carbon, of New- castle, was observed in an unmanageable state, and drifting about with the tide, in the direction of the Cockle Sand. The weather was hazy and the wind fresh...
An Aeroplane (165)
OCTOBER 29TH. - CLACTON - ON - SEA (AT BRIGHTLINGSEA), ESSEX. An aeroplane had crashed in the sea off Holland Haven, and a man was reported to be in the water, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £14 19s..