LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The German Life-Boat Service
IT is with great pleasure we have to record a visit from Captain PFEIFER, the Chief Inspector of the German Life-boat Service, or, as it is called in Germany, " Deutsche Gesellschaft zur Rettung Schiffbriichiger." Captain PFEIFER...
Category: Articles
Not Forgot, the Henry, the Renown and the John Herbert
MOELFRE, ANGLESEY.—A very severe gale from the N.N.W. was experienced on the 6th and 7th November, and the Lifeboat Star of Hope put off to the assistance of five distressed vessels, and rescued their crews numbering in all seventeen men.<...
Annual Meeting
THE ninety-second Annual General Meeting of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION was held in the Council Chamber at the Caxton Hall, Westminster, on Wednesday, March 29th, 1916, at 3.30 P.M. The Eight Hon. the Earl of Plymouth, P.O.,...
Category: Meetings
The S.S. Essex Lance
MARCH 13TH - 16TH. - CROMER, AND GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At about 2.35 P.M. information came to Cromer from the coastguard that a vessel, which seemed to be sinking, was about two and a half miles N.W. of Cromer, and was being...
The Humber Lightvessel
Humber, Yorkshire.—At 4.5 in the afternoon, on the 14th of January, 1951, the Mablethorpe coastguard tele- phoned that the Gorleston superintend- ent of Trinity House had asked for the life-boat to land a sick man from the Humber...
An Aeroplane (194)
DECEMBER 10TH. - PADSTOW, CORNWALL.
A British aeroplane was reported to have come down in the sea a mile off Lower Sharpnose Point, but a later message said that she was safe and the life-boat was recalled. - Rewards, £...
The Humber Boat-House
AT Spurn Point, on the Humber, on llth July, a tablet on the Life-boat House was unveiled to the memory of the late Mr. S. Crabtree Helm, of Bradford and Ilkley, who left £2,000 to the Institution, as well as a share in the ultimate...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Esbo (2)
Barrow, Lancashire ; Maryport, Cumberland; Ramsey, and Douglas, Isle of Man, October 19th.—On the 18th October the s.s. Esbo, of Helsingfors, left Preston in ballast for Finland. Bad weather was encountered, and the Esbo got into...
Lytham-St.Anne's Lifeboat City of Bradford III Shortly Before She Set Out at 1535 on June 6 1981
Lytham-St Anne's lifeboat City of Bradford III shortly before she set out at 1535 on June 6, 1981, to go to the help of the yacht Morag in difficulties off South Shore. Blackpool.
photograph by courtesy of David Forshaw... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Pomeral
DUNGENESS, KENT.—At 10.15 P.M. on the 10th January, during foggy weather, a message was received stating that a : steamer was ashore at Dengemarsh. ' Without loss of time the crew of thej No. 1 Life-boat Mary Theresa Boileau were...