LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Aberdeen Steam Trawler, Braconmoor
Longhope (The Orkneys).
At one in the morning on 5th January, the Aberdeen steam trawler, Braconmoor, outward bound for the fishing grounds, went ashore on TornessPoint, in the Orkneys, three and a half miles from Longhope....
The Ladies' Life-Boat Guild
The Ladies' Life-boat Guild, of which H.R.H. the Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, is the Patron, and the Duchess of Sutherland the President, has added three distinguished names to its officers.
The Duchess of...
Category: Articles
The Life-Belt Used By the Crews of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
The requisite qualities of a Life-boat man's lifebelt are— 1. Sufficient extra buoyancy, 22 Ibs., to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support another person besides...
Category: Articles
The Life-Belt Used By the Crews of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
The requisite qualities of a Life-boat man's lifebelt are— 1. Sufficient extra buoyancy, 22 Ibs., to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support another person besides...
Category: Articles
The Institution's First Gold Medallist
AT the end of the first Annual Report of the Institution, published on 10th March, 1825, is a list of thirty-two services for which it had given rewards during its first year. The first of these services took place on 10th July, 1824, and...
Category: Medals
The Motor Drifter Dol-Fyn
APRIL 23RD. - WEYMOUTH, DORSET.
At about 12.50 P.M. the coastguard reported that a vessel about three miles south of Portland Bill was showing distress signals, and the motor life-boat William and Clara Ryland was launched...
The Life-Belt Used By the Crews of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
The requisite qualities of a Life-boat man's life- belt are— 1. Sufficient extra buoyancy, 22 Iba, to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support another person besides...
Category: Articles
The South Sand Head Lightvessel
WALMER.—On the 6th Feb., 1897, in response to guns and rockets, the reserve Life-boat temporarily placed on this station was launched at about 3.45 A.M., proceeded to the South Sand Head lightvessel, and ascertained that she had been run...
The Fishwives of Cullercoats (1)
The Fishwives of Cullercoats. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Above: Oban Harbour, Where the Rescue Took Place. the Lifeboat Berth Is Marked to the Bottom Left of the Picture
Above: Oban Harbour, where the rescue took place. The lifeboat berth is marked to the bottom left of the picture. p iure A*« fiims Ltd. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs