LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Radio Ship Mi Amigo
Radio ship aground WHILE HER CREW were still on board after returning from a rough weather exercise on Wednesday March 19, Sheerness lifeboat received a VHP call at 1753 from Thames Coastguard telling them that the radio ship Mi Amigo had...
The Ramsgate Station
As a result of negotiations which have been going on between the Board of Trade and the Institution since July, 1920, the Institution has now taken over full financial responsibility for the Ramsgate Station, and, as from 31st March last,...
Category: Articles
The Crew of the New Arranmore Lifeboat
The crew of the new Arranmore lifeboat were able to demonstrate their skills to a large crowd at Killybegs, Co Donegal, during the town's festival last summer. An air-sea rescue display was staged involving a simulated trawler fire,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Durhambrook
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 5.56 in the morning, on the 19th of April, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel was aground at North Cheek, Robin Hoods Bay. At 6.10 the No. 1 life- boat Mary Ann Hepworth was launched.
The...
The Help of Shipowners. A Record of Services to Over Sixty Vessels
A Record of Services to over Sixty Vessels.A Record of Services WE continue the list of effective services sercarried out by Life-boats during 1926 — services where lives have been rescued or help given — with the names of vessels and the...
Category: Donations
A Life-Boat Revue at Hythe
THE Hythe life-boat crew and their friends gave their third entertainment last February.1 This time it was a revue in four scenes called "Lifeboatania." It began with a representation of a storm and a rescue so realistic that the...
Category: Branches
The Screw Collier Ludworth
HASBOROUGH, NORFOLK.—On Sunday, the 2nd October, shortly before 5 o'clock in the morning, the screw collier Ludworth, of London, bound from Hartlepool to London, having sprung a leak, ran aground on Hasborough beach during a fresh gale...
The Present Life-Boat House (left) at Ilfracombe Nestles at the Foot of Lantern Hill Where There Is a Fishermen's Chapel Dedicated to St. Nicholas
The present life-boat house (left) at Ilfracombe nestles at the foot of Lantern Hill where there is a fishermen's chapel dedicated to St. Nicholas. The new life-boat L/oyd'j II (right) is launched by tractor over the site of the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Rig Tender Seaforth Conqueror
Aground in a storm THE NOTORIOUS North Scroby Sands, off the Norfolk coast, near Great Yarmouth, claimed another victim on the night of November 18/19, 1986, when the rig tender Seaforth Conqueror ran aground there in a south-south-westerly...
Head Protection for Lifeboat Crews By Stuart Welford Btbch Mimcche Mrina Research and Development Officer Rnli
Research and Development Officer, RNLI IMAGINE A JANUARY AFTERNOON. Not much wind, but a cold front forecast; the light will fade in a couple of hours; wind and sea will be getting up and the temperature is dropping all the...
Category: Articles