LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Bookshelf
Lifeboat station histories The History of the Penmon and Beaumaris Lifeboats by Jeff Morris published by the author The northern end of the Menai Straits is one of the areas where changing times and use of the sea has led to considerable...
Category: Articles
The Hovercraft Princess Margaret
Hovercraft accident AT 1614 on the afternoon of Saturday March 30, 1985, the cross-channel hovercraft, Princess Margaret, radioed to Dover port control that she had collided with the breakwater on entering the harbour. It was cloudy with...
Forever by the Sea
RNLI Forever by the Sea funds are a positive and powerful way to honour the life of someone special who has passed away. By setting up a fund in the name of your loved one, you can give practical support for courageous volunteer lifeboat...
Category: Articles
Disaster at Broughty Ferry
IN the early hours of the 8th of December, 1959, the Broughty Ferry life-boat Mona was launched on receipt of a message that the North Carr lightvessel had broken adrift. Some time between 5.15 and 6.00 in the morning the life- boat capsized...
Category: Articles
May
Launches 41 Lives rescued 27
MAY 1ST. - NEWCASTLE, CLOUGHEY, AND DONAGHADEE, CO. DOWN. In the darkness of the early morning the American steamer Georgetown Victory, of Baltimore, ran ashore at Killard Point, Co. Down,...
Category: Services
Aida Lauro, of Naples
St. Ives, Cornwall.—Early on the morning of the 1st July the coastguard reported that a steamer was ashore near Pendeen. She was the Italian steamer Aida Lauro, of Naples, bound from Liverpool to Hull with a cargo of linseed and cotton seed,...
During a Visit to the Shipyard of Brooke Marine Ltd., Lowestoft, the Duke of Edinburgh Inspected Two of the R.N.L.I.'s 44-Foot Steel Life-Boats Which Were Then Nearing Completion
During a visit to the shipyard of Brooke Marine Ltd., Lowestoft, the Duke of Edinburgh inspected two of the R.N.L.I.'s 44-foot steel life-boats which were then Hearing completion. Pictured with the Duke is Mr. Harry L. Dowsett (right),... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Wreck of the Deutschland
ON the morning of the 6th December, 1875, occurred one of those sad disasters which ever and anon remind us of the dangerous character of our shores, the wreck of an emigrant ship. But a few months since the German passenger steamer Schiller...
Category: Articles
Radio Equipment In Life-Boats
Inspector of Machinery (Electrical], Royal National Life-boat Institution.
ViTH the exception of seven short- range boats, all the Institution's life-boats, both in the active and in the active reserve fleet, are...
Category: Articles
A wild February night in 1923 sees the exhausted crew of Adolf Vinnen hauled to safety by breeches buoy
A wild February night in 1923 sees the exhausted crew of Adolf Vinnen hauled to safety by breeches buoy. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs