LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
In a Heavy Sea Off the Longships
The " Mona " of Antwerp, on October 27th, 1928. Her cargo of coal had shifted and she had heavy list. The Peniee Motor Life-boat stood by until she got into Mount's Bay.. - View image in PDF
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The Steamers Matje and Dunvegan
Other Launches on the Night of the 28th.
On the opposite side of Anglesey to Moelfre and Beaumaris. the two Holyhead Life-boats were also out for the greater part of the night, the Steam Life-boat being launched twice, the...
Les Coe the Head Launcher Shovels An
Les Coe, the head launcher, shovels an evenly sloping pathway between the sea and the short slipway by the turntable.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Shamrock, of Wick
OCTOBER 27TH. - WICK, CAITHNESSSHIRE.
At 10.38 at night the coastguard reported that flashes from a torch and a white flare had been seen six hundred yards north of South Head. A strong north-north-west breeze was blowing,...
(Right) the Size of the Seas
IRight) The size of the seas sweeping Green Lily are apparent from this angle.. - View image in PDF
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Life-Boat Service In the East End of London
THE secretary of the Institution would like to repeat the appeal made in the last issue of The Life-boat for volunteers from Greater London to help to develop the Institution's work in the East End by forming an East End branch, in-...
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Tank Queen
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 11.20 on the morning of the 3rd of March, 1956, the coastguard reported that the tanker Tank Queen, of Oslo, had anchored off Southend in dense fog and needed a doctor. One of her deck boys was thought to have...
Williamson Tea
F k. MMi M Drinking Tea Saves Lives! BOAT TE BOAT] TEA No, this is not a new medical discovery.
But it is true, because every time an 80-tea bag packet of Lifeboat Tea is sold, four pence is contributed to the Royal...
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