LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Stanlake
JANUARY 16TH. - SUNDERLAND, DURHAM.
A vessel was seen to be very near the Whitburn Steel Rocks, flying distress signals.
An E.N.E. gale was blowing, with snow squalls. The sea was rough. At 10.20...
The Norwegian Life-Boat Society. (From the Yorkshire Post, 15th June, 1898.)
IN a dock of the Exhibition grounds at the Fisheries Exhibition at Bergen—it is held in the Nygaard Park, which runs down to a river—there are four Life- boats. They are not to be known for Life-boats at a glance, being shaped and rigged in...
Category: Articles
(Right) After Naming Mabel Alice the Duke of Kent
Right) After naming Mabel Alice, the Duke of Kent, President of the Institution, is shown over the lifeboat by Coxswain Kenneth Thomas.
With them (I) are Cdr Bruce Cairns, chief of operations, and (r) the Duke of Atholl,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Irish Steamer Kerrymore
NOVEMBER 21ST. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. At 12.55 in the morning the watchman reported rockets and flares from a ship between South Shear Buoy and Tuskar, and at 1.5 the motor life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson was launched. A southerly...
The Filey IRB Crew—An Irb Station Was Established There In 1966—Consists of a Bank Manager a Cafe Proprietor and a Joiner When This Photograph As Taken the Irb An
The Filey IRB crew—an IRB station was established there in 1966—consists of a bank manager, a cafe proprietor and a joiner. When this photograph as taken the IRB and the local life-boat had returned from the successful rescue of two youths... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Peterjon and the S.S. Tungenes
Ferryside, Carmarthenshire. — About 8.30 in the evening of the 1st of De- cember, 1948, The Mumbles coastguard telephoned that the s.s. Tungenes, of Stavanger, had reported that she was aground off Llanelly, with her rudder broken, and the...
The S.S. Cuban
Troon, Ayrshire.—At four o'clock on the morning of the 16th of January, 1955, the Kildonan coastguard tele- phoned that he had seen a red flare east of Kildonan. At 5.40 the life- boat Sir David Richmond of Glasgow put out. The sea...
Below: By the Time An Engine Has Been Waterproofed It Will Have Cost the Rnli Twice Its Original Price
Below: By the time an engine has been waterproofed, it will have cost the RNLI twice its original price. Photo Bob Kennovin.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Campo Grande
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—About ten o'clock on the morning of the llth of January, 1953, the Walton-on-the- Naze coastguard telephoned that the Cork lightvessel had reported seeing a steamer two miles south-by-west of the lightvessel....
Eight Fishing Cobles Including The Ethel and The Adventure
JANUARY 8TH. - NEWBIGGIN, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At 12.10 in the afternoon the coastguard reported that eight fishing cobles were out. A strong southerly wind was blowing. The sea was very rough and rising. At 12.24 the motor life...