LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Admiralty Minelayer (1)
NOVEMBER 22ND. - BARMOUTH, MERIONETHSHIRE, AND PWLLHELI, CAERNARVONSHIRE. An Admiralty minelayer had run aground, but her crew were saved from the shore by the coastguard life-saving apparatus. - Rewards, Barmouth, £8 6s. ;...
Jesse Anna, of Whitby
On the 22nd of September last, at 3 A. M., the brig Jesse Anna, of Whitby, ran on the Goodwin Sands. On signals of distress being made by the light- vessels, the Ramsgate life-boat, in tow of the Harbour Commissioners' steamer Aid,...
Our Lights and Lighthouses
" How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world." Merchant of Vawx, IF the faint twinkling of a candle's light was calculated to awaken so beautiful an idea in the mind of our great...
Category: Articles
The American Steamer Byron Darnton, of Baltimore
MARCH 16TH - 17TH. - CAMPBELTOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE, GIRVAN, AYRSHIRE, AND PORTPATRICK, WIGTOWNSHIRE. Soon after eleven o’clock on the night of the 16th the Southend coastguard reported to the Campbeltown life-boat station that a ship was ashore...
Grimsby Trawler Owners and the Life-Boat Service
FOR some time past it has been felt by the Institution that its Branch at Grimsby did not receive from the trawler owners the support which it bad reason to expect in view of the fact that Grimsby is the chief centre of the British Fishing...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat Transporting-Carriage
The Life-boat transporting-carriage is a very important auxiliary to the beat. Every Life-boat, except a few of the larger size, is provided with a carriage, on which she is kept in the boat-house ready for immediate transportation to the...
Category: Articles
A Memory of the War
Mr. Claude M. Hart and the coxswain and ex-coxswain of the life-boat at The Lizard, with all that was found by the life-boats from Cadgwith and The Lizard of an aeroplane which crashed in the sea one night. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Control Board
A closer view, with the engine-hatch open, showing the engine-room and the two 35-h.p. petrol engines. - View image in PDF
These two photographs are of the 41-feet Watson life-boat Mary Ann Hepwortli, stationed at Whitby in 1938.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Help to the Vessels of Foreign Countries.
The year was notable also for the large number of lives rescued from foreign vessels. In the midst of war the life-boat service has never forgotten its undertaking to rescue all in peril at sea, whatever their nationality. There were...
Category: Articles
An Aeroplane (189)
DECEMBER 2 2ND. - KILMORE, AND ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD.
An aeroplane was reported to have crashed into the sea, and red and green flares could be seen apparently at sea level, but nothing was found. - Rewards :...