LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Guests of Honour:
Guests of honour: several lifeboatmen were among the guests at a special Variety Club of Great Britain lunch at London's Hilton Hotel in December, to honour HRH The Duke of Kent, the heroes of the lifeboat service and leading members of... - View image in PDF
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Ronachan, of Glasgow
On the 18th Jan. intelligence was received at the Isle of Whithorn that a large threes-masted vessel was at anchor in Luce Bay, in a position of some peril. The Charlie Peek Life-boat was thereupon quickly launched through a heavy sea, and,...
The South Holland Life-Boat Society
EVERY reader of the LIFE-BOAT JOURNAL will remember how the whole civilized world was appalled at the sad news of the wreck of the s.s. Berlin at the mouth of the Hook of Holland on the 21st February, 1907, when so many precious lives were...
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The Old Boathouse
with the motor life-boal Henry Frederick Swan, on her trolley at the top of the slipway.. - View image in PDF
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Earl of Buchan
MARCH 27TH. - EYEMOUTH, BERWICKSHIRE.
At 9.10 A.M. the coastguard telephoned that a trawler was showing signals for medical aid. A light southerly wind was blowing with a rough sea. The motor lifeboat Frank and William...
Ronald Zeghibe on the Bridge of Hms York With Lain Leitch
Ronald Zeghibe on the bridge of HMS York with lain Leitch. - View image in PDF
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Svalenthe, Louisa and the S.S. Zillah
FLEETWOOD.—On the 16th June the Life-boat Maude Pickup was launched at 8 A.M. in response to signals of distress and proceeded in tow of the harbour steam-tug Brock, through a tremendous sea, in the direction of the Sunderland Bank, in...
Florence Nightingale, of London
On the night of the llth June, in a heavy gale from S.S.W., the brig Florence Nightingale, of London, coal laden, stranded on the Sizewell Bank, near Thorpeness. A tar-barrel being burned, was seen from the shore, and the Thorpe life-boat...
The Life-Boat Station
THE following brief description and diagrams illustrative of a complete Life-boat Establishment, including the House for the protection of tho boat, will serve to convoy an idea of the general character of one of the 303 Life-boat Stations...
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Wild Rose, of Brixham
The Cromer life-boat put out to the assistance of the dismasted brig Wild Hose, of Brixham, and at the request of the master stayed by her for several hours, when two steam-tugs arrived to tow the vessel into Yarmouth Harbour.