LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Wreck Register and Chart for the Year Ended the 30th June, 1896
THE " Abstracts of the Shipping Casual- ties which have occurred on or near the coasts of the United Kingdom during the year ended 30th June, 1896," have recently been issued by the Board of Trade, and are of the deepest interest,...
Category: Articles
Mrs. Lotinga Smith, of Gedling
BY the death of Mrs. Lotinga Smith, of Gedling, Nottingham, on the 26th of December, 1950, at the age of 93, the Institution has lost its oldest honorary worker. In spite of her age, and in spite of ill-health, she refused to give up and...
Category: Obituaries
Cap Palos, of Vancouver
Whitby.
A courageous and arduous service was performed by the crew of the Whitby Motor Life-boat in the early morning of the 15th November, when they went to the rescue of the fivemasted schooner, the Cap Palos, of...
Buttons After All!
IN the report of Life-boat Day in Greater London, in the last issue of The Lifeboat, it was stated that for the first time no buttons had been found in the collecting boxes. But buttons were, after all, given for the help of the Service—but...
Category: Articles
Despite Gale Force Winds and Driving Rain About 1000 People Attended the Service of Dedication on April Jo of Abersoch's New Atlantic 21 Wolverhampton the Ilb T
Despite gale force winds and driving rain, about 1.000 people attended the service of dedication on April JO of Abersoch's new Atlantic 21, Wolverhampton. The ILB, together with her tractor and boathtntse, provided b Wolverhampton... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Prince Edward Meets Local Children Who Helped to Raise Money for the Bangor Lifeboat Appeal
Prince Edward meets local children who helped to raise money for the Bangor lifeboat appeal.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Boy With Back Injuries Is Airlifted To Hospital From Outside Aberdovey Lifeboat Station
the boy with back injuries is airlifted to hospital from outside Aberdovey lifeboat station Photo: Doris O’Keefe. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Overland 1983: the 1st Lyn (Exmoor) Scouts
Overland 1983: The 1st Lyn (Exmoor) Scouts, with a third size replica of the pulling lifeboat, Louisa, built by themselves, re-enact the epic journey of the Lynmouth lifeboatmen in January 1899 when they took Louisa up Countisbury Hill,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Suffolk, of London,
LlZARD AND CADGWITH. The S.S. Suffolk, of London, 2,900 tons, bound from Baltimore for London, with a cargo of flour, tobacco, &c., and having a large number of cattle on board, struck the rocks at the Lizard Head during a dense fog at 4...
Vale of Nith, of Liverpool
On the morning of the 16th Nov., the services of the tubular Life-boat were re- quired by a large barque ashore on the West Middle Line. She proceeded out at once, and, at the request of the master, remained alongside the stranded vessel,...