LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Kenora
Shortly after midnight on the 21st June, rockets were observed from a vessel about two miles to the S.W. of Selsey Bill, and the Life-boat Lucy Newbon was promptly launched.
She found the s.s. Kenora, of Toronto —a large...
The S.S. Tricape
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 10.26 on the night of the 17th of August, 1953, the coastguard rang up to say that a vessel had signalled by lamp that a steamer had gone aground on the north-western side of the Goodwin Sands. At 10.39 the life-boat...
International Congress of the Breton Life-Saving Society
A VERY interesting International Con- gress on life-saving took place at St.
Malo, Brittany, between the 4th and 12th August. It had been organised by La Soci6te des Hospitaliers Sauveteurs Bretons, in celebration of their...
Category: Articles
14 Men Rescued from Greek Motor Vessel
AT 2.40 on the morning of the 22nd of October, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary of the Portrush, Co. Antrim, life-boat station, Mr. W. R.
Knox, that the Greek motor vessel Argo Delos of Piraeus, a ship...
Category: Services
The S.S. Dynamo
FEBRUARY 27TH a n d 2 8TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK.
At 9.30 in the morning the Gorleston coastguard telephoned to the life-boat station that the S.S. Dynamo, of Hull, was aground on North Bank. She was...
The Sailing Boat Dorothy
Barmouth, Merionethshire.—Shortly after two o'clock in the afternoon of the 3rd of September, 1951, the sailing boat Dorothy was seen to cap- size one and a half miles off Cric- cieth. She belonged to the Morfa Bychan Public Schools Camp...
The following information is published as received: 'The Eastney, Hampshire, lifeboat —the last .tailing and pulling boat on station with the RNLI—photographed on return from a service
The fill/owing information is published as received: 'The Eastney, Hampshire, lifeboat —the last .tailing and pulling boat on station with the RNLI—photographed on return from a service in which it towed in the three Royal Nary inshore... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Helwick Lightvessel
Tenby, Pembrokeshire.—At twelve noon on the 10th of February, 1953, the Superintendent of Trinity House asked if the life-boat would take a mechanic to the Helwick lightvessel, as the light needed attention. At 9.35 on the morning of the...
The S.S. Osprey
During a thick fog on the 5th June, the s.s. Osprey, of London, collided with another steamer and was very seriously damaged. The captain, to prevent his vessel sinking, decided to beach her, and about 3 P.M. she was observed through the fog...
Keith Downey Nephew of One of the Victims of the Rye Pulling and Sailing Lifeboat Mary Stanford Disaster In 1928 Is Here Shown Demonstrating the Use of Professor Pask's
Keith Downey, nephew of one of the victims of the Rye pulling and sailing lifeboat Mary Stanford disaster in 1928, is here shown demonstrating the use of Professor Pask's aid to resuscitation in the Rye Harbour ILB.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs