LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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...
The Bradford Exchange.
was a floating palace filled with high society and high hopes.
Setting sail from Southampton to New York, she carried the cream of Edwardian society js well as hundreds who sought a better life in America. It was her maiden...
Category: Advertisement
New Ways of Raising Money
A new member of the Fishponds branch of the R.N.L.I., Mr. Martin Rowe, organised a 'Guess my weight' competition, plus a skittles evening, at the Railway Hotel, Fishponds, near Bristol—and raised over...
Category: Donations
Contents
The LifeboatSpring 1991 Royal National Lifeboat Institution Contents Volume 52 Number 515 Chairman: MICHAEL VERNON Director and Secretary: LT CDR BRIAN MILES RD FNI RNR Editor: MIKE FLOYD Headquarters: Royal National Lifeboat Institution,...
Category: Contents
The Admiralty Motor Launch 1054
OCTOBER 11TH. - HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM.
At 7.20 in the evening the coastguard reported that red flares had been seen by the post of the Royal Observer Corps.
The motor life-boat The Princess Royal - Civil...
The S.S. Ida
The s.s. Ida, of Haugesand, on the 27th March, stranded on the Haisborough Sands, whilst bound from Newcastle to Rouen with a cargo of coal. A message was received from the Haisborough Light-vessel, reporting the casualty at about 6.15...
The Finnish Motor Vessel Johanna Thorden
Longhope, Orkneys, Wick, and Thurso, Caithness-shire.—Early on the morning of the 12th January the Finnish motor vessel Johanna Thorden strucka rock in the Pentland Firth. She had thirty-eight persons, including women and children, on board,...
The Finnish Motor Vessel Johanna Thorden (1)
Longhope, Orkneys, Wick, and Thurso, Caithness-shire.—Early on the morning of the 12th January the Finnish motor vessel Johanna Thorden strucka rock in the Pentland Firth. She had thirty-eight persons, including women and children, on board,...
The Duke of Atholl Chairman of the Rnli
The Duke of Atholl Chairman of the Rnli. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Cuttle and Thorpe Grange
TOWED TO MOORINGS At 7.30 a.m. on 6th October, 1964, the nightwatchman reported that the reserve life-boat The Cuttle appeared to be dragging her anchor inside Spurn Point, in the rough seas and near gale force westerly winds. At 7.50 the...