LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Screw Steamer Barington
MAHTPOBT, CTOBEBUHB,—At about 4.30 P.M. on the 26th September a smaE screw steamer, the Sarington, of Maryport, was observed to be making for the port. The wiad was blowing a strong gale from the W. by S.W., accompanied by a very rough sea,...
The Chemical Tanker E.C.E.
Channel Island collision Alderney's Trent class Roy Barker I and St Peter Port's Severn class Spirit of Guernsey attended in the early hours of 31 January 2006 after chemical tanker fCf collided with the bulk carrier Crot-Rowecki....
The S.S. Rydal Hall
HOLYHEAD.—On the 5th November, at about 9.40 P.M., signals of distress were shown by the s.s. Rydal Hall, of Liverpool, which had stranded on the Clipera Bocks during a gale of wind and a heavy sea.
The Life-boat Thomas...
The S.S. Thrift
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 12.23 early on the morning of the 18th of Decem- ber, 1957, the coastguard telephonedthe honorary secretary to say a vessel was ashore at Ness Point in Robin Hood's Bay. The life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was launched...
The Duchess of Kent
The Duchess of Kent, President of the Institution, visited the life-boat stations at Cromer and Sheringham on 23rd May, met Coxswain Henry Blogg and Coxswain James Dumble and their crews, and saw the Sheringham life-boat launched.
Category: Articles
The Men Who Man the Life-Boat
WHEN a shrieking, thund'rous tempest Breaks the stillness of the night, And a ship in seething waters Wages impotential fight; As the life-croft to the rescue, Gallant oarsmen speed afloat— Do we realise the perils Of the men who man the...
Category: Poetry
Eglantine, of Whitby
On the 10th Oct., the large Life-boat on this station put off, in reply to signals of distress, during a heavy gale from the S.S.W., and found the brig Eglantine, of Whitby, in a disabled state near the Cockle Lightship. She had broken from...
Honorary Workers of the Institution. No. 10.—Miss Letitia French, Honorary Secretary of the Palling Life-Boat Station
OF the many hundreds of honorary workers for the Life-boat Cause, those on whom the chief burden and respon- sibility fall are the Honorary Secretaries of the Life-boat Stations. It is a responsibility resting on them the whole time, from...
Category: Articles
Home from the Sea:
Home from the sea: a welcome through the airport window for Ha/lur Helgason, third engineer of the Icelandic coaster Tungufoss, from his wife and his little son Halli.
Hallur Helgason was one of the crew of 11 rescued by... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Welsh Prince
WESTON-SUPER-MARE. — As the S.S. Welsh Prince, of Newport, was leaving the pier at Weston-Super-Mare for Bristol, at 6.30 on the evening of the 22nd September, with upwards of forty passengers on board, and a crew of six men, a hawser by...