LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Duke Visits Hq
HRH The Duke of Kent stands on the foredeck of Edward Duke of Windsor pined by Brian Miles, David Acland and the crew. Photo: Anthony Oliver. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Baron Dunmore
Workington, Cumberland.—At 2.45 on the afternoon of the 1st of October, 1952, the master of the S.S. Baron Dunmore, of Ardrossan, reported that his ship had run aground in the channel at Workington and asked for the life- boat. The life-boat...
A NEW LEASE OF LIFE
They were crying out to be saved.’ It’s the kind of phrase you’ll hear from our lifeboat crews after
a rescue. But there is another group who share this noble narrative – the lifeboat restorers
They’re depending...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Langdon (2)
NORTH DEAL, KINGSDOWNE, BROADSTAIRS and RAMSGATE.—On the 8th April the s.s. Langdon, of London, bound fromBlyth for Dartmouth, with a cargo of coal, stranded on the North Goodwin Sands, in a dangerous position, during a dense fog, at about 4...
Details of the Control Board
The motor mechanic is standing at the top of the ladder leading down to the engine-room.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Verbormilia
FEBRUARY 6TH. - ST. ABBS, BERWICKSHIRE.
Just after 11 P.M. information wasreceived from the coastguard that a vessel was ashore west of Fast Castle Point. The motor life-boat Annie Ronald and Isabella Forrest was launched...
Friendship, of Goole
The ketch Friendship, of Goole, having sprung a leak off St.
Abbs Head, would not steer and could not fetch a port, and she consequently drifted on the Annat sandbank, off Mon- trose, early on the morning of the 15th...
The S.S. Tolfaen
LLANDDULAS.—The s.s. Tolfaen, of Liverpool, bound from Liverpool forNewry with wheat, was seen at anchor in Ehos Bay, with a heavy list to port and flying a signal of distress during a strong gale from the N.N.W., and a very heavy sea on the...
Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
FOR the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.
(Incorporated By Royal Charter.) FOUNDED 4TH MARCH, 1824.— SUPPORTED SOLELY BY VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS.
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Category: Advertisement
Fantee, of Hamburg
October 20th, at 5 P.M.
The schooner Fantee, of Hamburg, bound from that port to Shields, was wrecked on the Tay Bank, 8 miles to leeward of St.
Andrew's. It was blowing a gale from the S.E. with, as...