LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
German Thanks
A COURT of enquiry, held in Germany, into the stranding of the motor tanker D. L. Harper at the Lizard, on 20th June, in a heavy fog, issued its judg- ment in December. In the course of it the Court said : " The readiness of the...
Category: Articles
The Fourteenth Collecting Box to Be Put Before the Public In the Chertsey Area: This One Is at the Leisure Centre Thorpe Park and Was Unveiled By Rnli Chairman the Duke of Atholl (I) In the Pres
The fourteenth collecting box to be put before the public in the Chertsey area: this one is at the leisure centre, Thorpe Park, and was unveiled by RNLI chairman, the Duke of Atholl (I.) in the presence of Terry Cat/iff, director of Leisure... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Panamanian Steamer Buccaneer and Tanker Johannishus.
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 3.26 on the morning of the 9th of June, 1955, the coastguard telephoned that a wireless message had been intercepted from the Panamanian steamer Buccaneer that she had caught fire after being' in collision with the...
The S.S. Crestville (1)
Port Erin, and Port St. Mary, Isle of Man.—About 5.35 on the afternoon of the 27th of May, 1956, a man informed the coxswain that he had seen from Cradder Head a steamer aground on the Calf of Man. At 5.55 the life-boat Matthew Simpson was...
Contents of Contribution Boxes, 1896
EXCLUDING THOSE BELONGINQ TO BRANCHES.
£. *. rf.
138 13 7 279 128 - 5 1 13 - 7 - 5 8 - 10 6 - 6 6 - 7 9 1 11 8 - 10 6 19- 1 11 5 12- - 7 6 213 - 16 - 3-9 1 - - 176 - 5 3 - 7 9 - 17 6 - 11 8 25- -...
Category: Donations
Lady Constance
The brigantine Lady Constance, of West Hartlepool, when bound from London to West Hartlepool in ballast on the 7th March, stranded on the Barber Sands. Inform- ation was given at 1.45 P.M., and the No. 1 Life-boat Oovent Garden was...
Apollo
The steam trawler Apollo of Sandefjord, Norway, was reported ashore on the Middle Barber Sands during thick weather on the 21st January. The No. 1 Life-boat Covent Garden was launched to her assistance and found the vessel riding with her...
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Angle, Pembrokeshire. At 1.15 on the afternoon of the 22nd of June, 1959, a local farmer told the honorary secretary that a bullock had fallen over a cliff east of Sheep Island and asked for assis- tance. The life-boat Richard Vernon and...
Roaring water
Two fishermen faced the reality of the most dangerous profession as they drifted off Co Cork
Just before 9am on Wednesday 22 June, as many of the lifeboat and shore volunteers of Baltimore were...
Category: Articles
Double Celebrations at Wick
Wick tiieboat crew aboard Roy Barker II (L to Hi Ian Cormack.
second coxswain; Mark Cormack.
Crew member; John Robertson, deputy second coxswain; John Martin.
Mechanic. Walter McPhee.<... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs