LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S.. Glamorganbrook, of London
OCTOBER 11TH. - WHITBY, AND SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. At 4.35 in the morning the Whitby coastguard reported a message from Cullercoats wireless station that the S.S.. Glamorganbrook, of London, bound for the Isle of Wight from Blyth, was...
The Helen Peele's Summer Cruise: 1927
By Captain H. G. Innes, R.N., Inspector of Life-boats for the Western District.
[Each summer the Institution's steamtug, Helen Peele, which is stationed at Padstow, Cornwall, for the purpose of taking the two Padstow...
Category: Articles
Ant of Boston
The Herbert Ingram life-boat at Skeg- ness saved 2 men from the sloop Ant, of Boston, which became a total wreck on Skegness Beach.
Duchess of Leith
CURIOUS INCIDENT OFF SHERINGHAM Sheringham and Cromer, Norfolk. At about five o'clock on the afternoon of Thursday the 19th September, 1963, the Sheringham coxswain launched his crab boat to investigate a cabin cruiser, Duchess of Leith,...
R. M. Ballantyne's "The Life-Boat."
IT is thirty-two years since R. M.
Ballantyne died, and last year was the centenary of his birth. He was writing for nearly forty years, his first book being published in 1856, and in that time he produced eighty volumes....
Category: Articles
To Mark the Retirement of Willie Mceachern Motor Mechanic at Islay for 25 Years and a Lifeboatman of 40 Years Service He and His Wife Were Guests of Honour at a Carniva
To mark the retirement of Willie McEachern, motor mechanic at Islay for 25 years and a lifeboatman of 40 years service, he and his wife were guests of honour at a carnival dance in December—a gathering of friends and colleagues. During the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Atlantic Sea
Humber, Yorkshire.—At 8.37 on the evening of the 15th of August, 1955, the Spurn Point coastguard rang up to say that the S.S. Atlantic Sea, of Panama, had reported that a member of her crew had been seriously injured by a falling derrick...
The S.S. Ringdove
At about 5 A.M. on the 16th November, in reply to signals of distress, the same Life-boat proceeded to the Middle Scroby Sand, and found the s.s. Ringdove, of Liverpool, ashore there in the midst of the breakers. With great difficulty and...
The S.S. Ben Maye
Port St. Mary, Isle of Man. At five o'clock on the afternoon of the 7th of April, 1959, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that a coaster was ashore in Calf Sound. The coxswain had received a telephone message informing him of this...
The S.S. Maja
WITHERNSEA.—The s.s. Maja, of Copenhagen, having stranded about two miles N. of the pier at Withernsea on the 7th January, the Life-boat Admiral Sous proceeded to her assistance at 6.15 A.M.
The wind was blowing from the...