LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
(Above) Coxswain Graham Walker Pictured During the Naming Ceremony of the Station's Mersey Doris M. Mann of Ampthill,
(above) Coxswain Graham Walker pictured during the naming ceremony of the station's Mersey Doris M. - View image in PDF
Mann of Ampthill, seen below on trials.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Women of Holy Island. A Fine Launch and a Silver Medal Service
ON Sunday, the 15th January, a south-easterly gale was blowing, with blinding snow-storms. A heavy sea was breaking on Holy Island, and the j weather was bitterly cold. Just before eight o'clock in the evening a...
Category: Medals
New Ways of Raising Money
THERE has been some very encouraging news of the activities of youthful supporters of the life-boat service. The junior section of the Edinburgh branch, which has been growing steadily in strength, recently organised a junior gymkhana at a...
Category: Donations
Witch of Wave
About 10 P.M.
on the 16th March the wind veered to the west and increased to a gale, and half an hour later the Coastguard reported that a ketch, which was at anchor in the bay, was making signals of...
Pallas of Shields
On the night of the 24th January, the brig Pallas, of Shields, stranded on the Sizewell Bank, in a strong gale from S.S.E., at daylight: being seen from the shore, the Thorpe life-boat proceeded to her, through a very high sea, and succeeded...
The Steamers Haiti Victory and Duke of York
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—Early on the morning of the 6th of May, 1953, the United States steamer Haiti Victory collided with the British Railways passenger steamer Duke of York two miles east-south-east of the Galloper lightvessel. The...
Queen of Hearts
KILDONAN, ISLE OF ARRAN.—On the 11th February, at 10.30 A.M., the Life-boat Hope proceeded, in tow of the tug steamer Flying Sprite, to the assistance of a ship reported on shore on the Sliddery Rock, at the south end of the island. It was...
Spectators Getting a Thrill at Port Isaac, Cornwall, When As Part of a Water Safety Demonstration the Local Irb Showed What It Could Do In a Rocky Situation.
Spectators getting a thrill at Port Isaac, Cornwall, when as part of a water safety demonstration the local IRB showed what it could do in a rocky situation.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Fisheries Exhibition
IT would probably savour of exaggeration to assert that this Exhibition is entitled to the first place in the long roll of similar undertakings, of which the Exhibition of 1851 was the grand beginning; but history will give it a high place...
Category: Articles
Lapwing, of Liverpool
DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN.—On the 18th February the brigantine Lapwing, of Liverpool, bound from that port to New Calabar, was at anchor in a dangerous position, having previously lost sails, &c., in Douglas Bay; the master and part of the...