LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
City of Edinburgh
A message by telephone was received from the North Hasborough Light-vessel stating that a vessel was in need of assistance on the morning of the 5th June.
The. weather was. foggy, the sea was very heavy and a moderate gale...
Vittoriso G., of Venice
At 9 A.M.
on the 19th January, the Life-boat Richard and Anne Warner was summoned to the assistance of the Vittorioso G, a brig belong- ing to Venice, which was wrecked in Ban- now Bay, on the Selskar rocks, during a...
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Category: Advertisement
(Right) After Naming Mabel Alice the Duke of Kent
Right) After naming Mabel Alice, the Duke of Kent, President of the Institution, is shown over the lifeboat by Coxswain Kenneth Thomas.
With them (I) are Cdr Bruce Cairns, chief of operations, and (r) the Duke of Atholl,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Photographic Proof of the Unlikely Rumour That a Philanthropic Gorilla Was Spotted at the Earls Court Boat Show Whether It Was Fear That Encouraged the Public to Fill His Box Or Whether It Was the I
Photographic proof of the unlikely rumour that a philanthropic gorilla was spotted at the Earls Court Boat Show. Whether it was fear that encouraged the public to fill his box or whether it was the irresistible music of his pirate captor is... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Gudveig of Oslo (2)
Caister, and Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk; and Lowestoft, Suf- folk. At 4.59 on the morning of the 24th of February, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary of the Gorleston station that the motor vessel Gudveig of Oslo...
During An Exercise In January, 1970, the Bridlington, Yorkshire, Life-Boat, Because of Ice and Snow, Had to Be Manhandled Down the Slope to the Beach.
During an exercise in January, 1970, the Bridlington, Yorkshire, life-boat, because of ice and snow, had to be manhandled down the slope to the beach.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Arran, of Irvine
On the 19th April, the bngArran, of Irvine, was stranded, | during a fresh gale of wind, on the bank be- tween the Main and Ireland's Eye, off Howth. The Howth life-boat was quickly manned and launched, and succeeded in bringing the...
Maid of Linney
MOTOR BOAT'S CREW BURN RAGS AS SIGNALS Angle, Pembrokeshire. At 10.15 on the night of the 5th July, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small boat was drifting in Freshwater West Bay and was flashing a torch....
Handy, of Wexford
The schooner Handy, of Wexford, bound from Ayr for that port with coals, struck on the Black- water Bank on the evening of the 10th January, during a thick fog, and sprung a leak, when she made for the shore at Cahore, where she subsequently...