LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Admiralty Register of Wrecks for 1854
THE Admiralty Register of the Wrecks that have occurred on the coasts of the United Kingdom during the year 1854 has just been published by order of the House of Commons, accompanied by the Wreck Chart of the British Isles for the same...
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The Irish Motor Torpedo Boat M. 4,
Ballycotton, Co. Cork, and Helvick Head, Co. Waterford.—During the afternoon of the 10th of January, 1950, the Helvick Head life-boat, H. F. Bailey, was on passage from Baltimore, expecting to call at Ballycotton. About 4.50, a searchlight...
The Polish Yacht Jan-z-Kolna
POLISH YACHT AGROUND Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At one minute past nine on the morning of Tuesday the 24th September, 1963, the honorary secretary received a message that a large yacht had gone aground in the vicinity of Barrow No. 6 buoy and...
The Admiralty Tank-Landing Craft 4CVC
DECEMBER 15TH - 19TH. - PORT ASKAIG, HEBRIDES. At 9.15 at night the Kilchoman coastguard reported a vessel ashore at Black Rock, Jura. A strong south-cast wind was blowing, with a heavy sea. Sleet was falling and the night was dark. The...
Services of the Life-Boats of the Institution During 1907
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Services of the Life-Boats of the Institution During 1916
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Services of the Life-Boats of the Institution During 1913
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The New Brighton Life-Boat Rescuing the Crew of the Emile Delmas, 24th November, 1928. The Finest Service of the Year
(It should be noted that in ordinary circumstances the mast would not be lying across the net, but the Coxswain was compelled to stow it, as both steamer and Life-boat were rolling heavily.) This is a reproduction of a painting by Mr....
Category: Drawings
The Competitive Trials of Life-Boats
THE decision of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION to carry out exhaustive trials -with different types of Life-boats is an additional proof to those already given in various "ways that the governing body are determined not to sit...
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