LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Life-Boat Cushion from the Sudan
THE Institution has received a leather cushion which has been specially made for it by an engineer in the Sudan government dockyard at Khartoum, Mr. R. C. Roberts, of Broughton-in- Furness. The cushion, which has been made in imitation of...
Category: Articles
The Viscount Grey of Fallodon: A Correction
IN the obituary notice of the Viscount Grey of Fallodon, which appeared in the last issue of The Life-boat, it was stated that his last public appearance on behalf of the Institution was at the inaugural ceremony of the Boulmer motor...
Category: Obituaries
The James H. Price, of Savannah
AUGUST 28TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 6.30 in the evening, a steamer was seen to be in danger of running ashore and the life-boat coxswain put out in a shore boat to investigate.
A strong south-westerly breeze was blowing and the...
Life-Boat Services In 1898
LIFE-BOAT SERVICES IN 1898.
Lives saved.
Addgunde, barque, of Tonsberg 12 Albert, ketch, of Watchet......... 3 Anglo-Saxon, barge — rendered assistance.
Annie Warren, sch.,...
Category: Articles
The Gold Medal Service at Bally Cotton
As a result of the account by Mr.
Robert H. Mahony, honorary secretary of the Ballycotton station, in the June issue of The Life-boat, of the very gallant service of the Ballycotton motor life-boat to the Daunt Rock...
Category: Services
Flo & Dick Smith Is Launched. In the Background Is the Trearddur Bay Lifeboat Station
Flo & Dick Smith is launched. In the background is the Trearddur Bay lifeboat station and the crowd who attended the ceremony. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Life-Boat In the Lord Mayor's Show
THE Institution was represented in the Lord Mayor's Show, on 10th November, by a Life-boat and crew drawn by atractor. The description as it appeared in the programme of the show was :—• " The Ellen & Margaret of Seattle...
Category: Articles
The Irish Sea Fisheries Trawler Naoim Cait
Valentia, Co. Kerry.—At 4.5 on the morning of the 5th of June, 1957, a message was received from Valentia radio that the Irish Sea Fisheries trawler Naoim Cait was adrift fifteen miles south-west of Skelligs Rock.
The...
The Admiralty Minesweeping Trawler Ethel Taylor
NOVEMBER 22ND. - CULLERCOATS, NORTHUMBERLAND. In the afternoon the coastguard asked that the life-boat should go to a position one and a half miles S.E. of Tyne Piers, and at 4.58 P.M. the motor lifeboat Westmorland was launched. A light N.W...
The Dredging Vessel Hopper No. 4
DECEMBER 18TH. - DUN LAOGHAIRE, CO. DUBLIN. At 2.10 in the afternoon a telephone message was received from the Bailey Lighthouse, Howth, that Hopper No.
4, a dredging vessel belonging to the Dublin Port and Docks Board, had...