LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Prince of Wales Presenting Medals at the Centenary Meeting
i From left to right:—Captain Sir Herbert Acton Blake, the Hon. George Colville, Admiral of the Fleet Sir Doveton Sturdee, Bt., Sir Donald MacLean. Acting Coxswain Younj (Cloughey, Co Down). Bowman James Innei (Newburgh), Coxswain John... - View image in PDF
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The Life-Boat
The following drawings show the general outline and principal fittings of the different types of Life-boats used in the Institution's service. Figure 1 gives the profile or broadside view. Fig. 2 the " plan " or deck view. Fig....
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Yarmouth Isle of Wight 52Ft Arun Lifeboat Joy and John Wade Returning to Station on Saturday March 29 She Had Launched to Go to the Help of a Nonvegian Cargo Vessel Germa Geisha In Diffic
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, 52ft Arun lifeboat Joy and John Wade returning to station on Saturday March 29. She had launched to go to the help of a Nonvegian cargo vessel Germa Geisha in difficulties about nine miles south east of St... - View image in PDF
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The S.S. Dan
BLYTH, NORTHUMBERLAND. — On the morning of the 29th March signals of distress were sent up by the s.s. Dan, of Copenhagen, which had stranded on theSow and Figs rocks a little to the eastward of Blyth Harbour, and in response the Life-boats...
The Motorship Eminent
Fowey, Cornwall.—At 7.33 on the morning of the 16th of March, 1956, the Polruan coastguard rang up to say that the motorship Eminent, of Am- sterdam, had wirelessed that she had broken down about one mile south- east of Fowey and...
The S.S. Hope Star
DECEMBER 6TH. - DONAGHADEE, CO. DOWN. The motor life-boat Civil Service No. 5 put out at 9 in the morning, in a N.W. gale, with a very rough sea, and rescued nine men of the crew of 44 of the S.S. Hope Star, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, which had...
The Big Plunge:
The Big Plunge: A group of North Devon servicemen took the plunge for charity. Eighteen divers from RAF Chivenor and Locking Sub Aqua Clubs leapt from Barnstaple bridge to raise £600. It took three hours for the men to float four miles... - View image in PDF
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The S.S. Baron Douglas, the S.S. Korenica and Rumania (2)
Hastings, and Eastbourne, Sussex, and Dungeness, Kent.—At three o'clock in the morning of the 14th of June, 1952, the S.S. Baron Douglas, of Ardrossan, bound for London from Macoris with a cargo of sugar, wirelessed that she had been...
The Ferries European Gateway and Speedlink (1)
Ferry collision HARWICH HARBOUR RADIO received a call at 2251 on Sunday December 19, 1982, from the outward bound roll-on roll-off ferry European Gateway reporting that she was in collision with the inward bound ferry Speedlink Vanguard in...
The Wishing Well at Cawdor Castle the Fourteenth Century
The wishing well at Cawdor Castle, the fourteenth century home of the Thanes of Cawdor, also gives an opportunity to castle visitors to become RNLI well wishers. The picture shows a recent lifting of the grill and (I to r) Lord Cawdor, Derek... - View image in PDF
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