LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Fort Massac, of London
FEBRUARY 1ST - 3RD. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. About 6.40 in the evening the coastguard reported an SOS from a vessel which was sinking about two miles north-west of the Sunk Lightvessel.
The motor life-boat E.M.E.D. was...
Girl Power
Mention the words 'Girl Power' and you probably think of the pop group, Spice Girls! So what has 'Girl Power' got to do with the RNLI? In the early days of the lifeboat service, women either helped to raise funds or to...
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The Nautilus
MONTROSE, N.B.—At about 10 A.M., on the 22nd November, a strong E.S.E. wind sprang up, and the sea became very heavy. About thirty of the Ferryden fishing boats had proceeded to sea earlier in the morning, and several of them ran back, some...
The S.S. Plasma, of Fraserburgh
OCTOBER 17TH. - BOULMER, NORTHUMBERLAND.
About 10.30 at night, in a thick fog, the engines of a vessel apparently aground half a mile to the eastward could be heard, and at 10.50 the motor life-boat Clarissa Langdon was...
Maartje, of Rotterdam
Dunmore East, Co. Waterford; and Kilmore, Co. Wexford. At 12.20 early on the morning of the 14th July, 1961,pilots at Dunmore East reported that the coaster Maartje of Rotterdam needed help ten miles south-west of Hook Town, as her engines...
The Ketch-Rigged Yacht Thelma II, of Beaumaris
Portrush, Co. Antrim. — On the morning of the 1st September the auxiliary ketch-rigged yacht Thelma II, of Beaumaris, carrying a crew of three, left Portrush for Liverpool under sail.
Her engine was out of action. A very...
(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
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The Duchess of Kent at the Depot
The Duchess of Kent at The Depot. - View image in PDF
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An Aeroplane (92)
FEBRUARY 15TH. - WELLS, NORFOLK.
An aeroplane had been reported in the sea off Brancaster, but nothing was found.- Rewards, £25 10s..
Shore-Boat Services Rewarded By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution In 1883
Jan. 4.—Voted 31. to three fishermen for putting off in a boat and saving at some risk, the crew, consisting of four men, of the Norwegian sciiooner Johanna, which was wrecked on Car Carrig Rock, off the coast of Fifeshire, during a whole...
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