LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Nor' Wester, of Boston U.S
On the 20th April, the ship Nor" Wester, of Boston, U.S., with a crew of 24 men, bound from Cardiff to Monte Video with a cargo of coals, was passing this place in tow of a powerful steam-tug, when the wind sud- denly shifting from S.S...
The S.S. Perou and the S.S. Vittoria Claudia (2)
Dungeness, and Dover, Kent; and Hastings, Sussex.—At four o'clock on the morning of the 16th of November, 1953, the Lade coastguard telephoned the Dungeness life-boat station that the S.S. Perou, of Havre, had reported that she had been...
Life-Boat Calendar and Christmas Card
THE life-boat Christmas Card and Calendar will have reproduced on them in colour the picture shown above. It depicts a life-boat rescue on the dreaded Goodwin Sands. The paint- ing is one of two presented to the Institution some years ago by...
Category: Advertisement
"One More for the Life-Boat Crew."
"THE lads are afloat, they have launched the boat Where the moaning storm-birds- flew; Oh, wife, from the shores they cry, ' One more, With strong, steady hand, and true I' There are lives to save On the frothing wave— ' One...
Category: Poetry
Two Teams of 16 Rowers Took Turns to Achieve a 24-Hour Sponsored Row In Plymouth Sound
Two teams of 16 rowers took turns to achieve a 24-hour sponsored row in Plymouth Sound.
They came from the Plymouth School of Maritime Studies and organised the strenuous event themselves under the guidance of the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Trawler
Fenit, Co. Kerry.—8th October. A trawler was sinking, but her watertight bulkhead held and she was taken in tow by another trawler.—Rewards, £7 19s..
A Trawler
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—17th July. 1938. A trawler had gone aground south of Lowestoft Inner Shoal Buoy, but refloated without help.— Rewards, £19 65..
A Dinghy
CLINGING TO DINGHY At 12.40 p.m. on 2oth November, 1963, the Wallasey police told the honorary secretary that two men had been seen clinging to a capsized dinghy a mile north of the Leasowe lighthouse. At 12.50 the life-boat White Star, on...
A Yacht
APRIL 22ND. -SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. A capsized yacht was found off Shoeburyness, but there was no one on board.-Rewards, £6 10s..
The S.S. Eldon Park
FEBRUARY 7TH. - THE MUMBLES, GLAMORGANSHIRE. At 1.27 A.M. the coastguard at The Mumbles telephoned that.
a vessel was ashore at Port Eynon and was burning distress signals. A strong S.E.
breeze was blowing...