LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Danish Vessel Dangulf Maersk
TWO INJURED MEN At 9.30 a.m. on 2ist March, 1966, the honorary secretary was informed that there were two injured men on board the Danish vessel Dangulf Maersk. At 9.35 the life-boat Solomon Browne was launched in a light west-north-westerly...
Captain Hans Hansson, Director of the Swedish Lifeboat Service, Speaking at the Annual Meeting. on the Right of the Picture Is the Duchess of Kent.
Captain Hans Hansson, Director of the Swedish Lifeboat Service, speaking at the annual meeting. On the right of the picture is the Duchess of Kent.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
(Above) the Headquarters of the Rnli from Which the Operational Control of the Fleet Is Administered By the Chief of Operations and His Staff—Now at Poole
(Above) The headquarters of the RNLI from which the operational control of the fleet is administered by the chief of operations and his stuff—now at Poole.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Wreck of the Barque 'Mary Stoddart' on the Irish Coast
THE following account of a disastrous shipwreck which recently occurred near Dundalk, on the east coast of Ireland, cannot fail to be interesting to all who peruse it. We think it deserving of record on three accounts —1st. As an instance of...
Category: Services
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Wednesday, 31st August, 1938.
PAID £29,787 9s. Sd. for the total charges of the Institution during the month, in- cluding rewards for services, payments for the construction of life-boats, life-boathouses and slipways,...
Category: Committee
The First Service of the Lerwick Life-Boat
LAST year the Institution established a Life-boat Station at Lerwick in the Shetlands. This is the first Life-boat Station to be established on those islands, and was made possible by the system of coast communication which had recently been...
Category: Services
News from the Branches. List of New Branches
List of New Branches.
THE following new Branches have been formed since the list published in The Lifeboat for February, 1927 :— Branch.
Abergavenny . . . . .
Abertillery . . . ....
Category: Branches
Adams of the Goodwin Sands
" Bill" Adams of the Goodwins died at Deal in 1926. The tempestuous weather round our coasts which heralded 1930 has spoken loudly to us of him and of his dauntless successors.
I WILL ADAMS of the Goodwin Sands !...
Category: Poetry
The Admiralty Trawler Cape Barracouta
Ramsgate, Kent.—On the 7th October, 1939, two vessels were seen to be ashore on Goodwin Sands. One of them was the Admiralty trawler Cape Barracouta. A light E.N.E. wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. At 11.45A.M. the motor life-boat...
The Sailing Barge Will Everard
Great Yarmouth and Gorlesfon, Norfolk.
—At 6.30 in the evening of the 17th of July, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that a barge was ashore on the Caister Shoal, and the life-boat Louise Stephens was launched at 6.40 in a...