LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Hurricanes In the West Indies
ALTHOUGH the scene of the recent terrible disasters, caused by the hurricanes in the West Indies, is far distant from the sphere of the operations of THE NATIONAL LIF£-BOAT INSTITUTION, which finds ample scope for the full exercise of...
Category: Articles
Restoration of the Apparently Drowned
IN the year 1864, after making exhaustive inquiries extending over some years, the Committee of Management • of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION issued to all its Lifeboat stations the regulations for the restoration of the...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Launches
Angle, Pembrokeshire April 18.
Arklow, Co. Wicklow May 20.
Arranmore, Co. Donegal Vlay 3.
iarmouth, Merionethshire May 16.
Jarra Island, Outer Hebrides March 22, 24 and...
Category: Services
The Ecuadorian Motor Vessel Bonita
Twenty-nine rescued A MAYDAY RELAY message from the Danish motor vessel Charlottenburg was heard by St Peter Port Signal Station at 1323 on Sunday December 13, 1981.
Charlottenburg was going to the assistance of Bonita, an...
"Storm on the Waters"
Storm on the Waters - is the story of the Life-boat Service in the war of 1939-45. The full story cannot be told in the compass of a small book, but if Mr. Vince has had to omit much that we should like to see included, he has given us a...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Families. The Stantons and Stephensons of Boulmer, Northumberland
By Hugh Stephenson, Honorary Secretary of the Boulmer Branch, and a member of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle-on-Tyne.
THERE are thirty-four houses in the village of Boulmer. Nine are occupied by Stephensons and...
Category: Articles
Newstead Publishing (1983) Ltd
A SUPERB PAIR OF FINE ART PRINTS Signed by the Artist "FORM LINE OF BATTLE" The English and Firnrh llrris men and brt»in lurming their battle lint's in preparation tor the coming all ray.
"VICTORY IN...
Category: Advertisement
The Four-Masted Iron Ship Mersey (1)
WALMEB AND KINGSDOWNE, KENT.— On the 27th and 28th December, 1901, a heavy south-westerly gale prevailed in the Channel. The four-masted iron ship Mersey, of Grimstad, was driven on the Goodwin Sands, and in a very short time was engulfed....
Pictured at Bottom: the Enniskillen Crew and the Atlantic 21 Lifeboat Bienwatch on the Enniskillen Inland Waterways
Pictured at bottom: The Enniskillen crew and the Atlantic 21 lifeboat Bienwatch on the Enniskillen inland waterways Photo: Colin Watson. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Admiralty Torpedo Craft C.T.21
JANUARY 23RD. - DONAGHADEE, CO. DOWN, AND PORTRUSH, CO. ANTRIM At 2.6 in the afternoon the Bangor coastguard reported a vessel in distress off Ballywhlskin.
There was a thick fog, but the sea was...