LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
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Category: Committee
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
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Category: Committee
Bounty, of Jersey
FIREMEN TO THE RESCUE WHEN the 25-foot fishing vessel Bounty of Jersey, G.I., with four men aboard, was reported in difficulties at 8.21 p.m. on 24th July, 1970,* off the Rigdon Bank in St. Ouen's Bay, Jersey, the St. Helier life-boat...
The S.S. Nord Est II
NOVEMBER 21ST. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. At 8.20 P.M. the coastguard reported that an S.O.S. call had been received from the S.S. Nord Est II, of Belfast, a former French vessel, which, laden with petrol for Dublin, was aground on the...
The S.S. Urlana and Thurland Castle
SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT BARRA ISLAND SEPTEMBER 5TH. - BARRA ISLAND, AND STORNOWAY, HEBRIDES.
At 7 o’clock in the morning a message came from the coastguard that a vessel was ashore on Idrigill Point on the Isle of Skye, 40...
Mrs. Fairrie, President of the Hoylake Ladies' Life-Boat Guild
BY the death on 12th April last of Mrs.
A. J. Fairrie, President of the Hoylake Ladies' Life-boat Guild, in her eightyninth year, the Institution has lost the oldest of its many lady workers. For over thirty ysars she...
Category: Obituaries
The Shipwrights' Exhibition
BY the kindness of the Worshipful Company of Shipwrights, the Life-boat service had a space at the exhibition of ships' models and equipment which the Company held in London from 28th January to 8th February of this...
Category: Articles
The Coastal Steamer Spey
JANUARY 25TH. - AMBLE, NORTHUMBERLAND. The motor life-boat Frederick and Emma was launched at 8.40 A.M. to the help of the coastal steamer Spey, of Newcastle, which had run ashore on the rocks at the north side of Coquet...
On 9Th July, 1968, the Torbay Life-Boat Princess Alexandra of Kent,
On 9th July, 1968, the Torbay life-boat Princess Alexandra of Kent, using radar, found a stranded ferry in dense fog and took off and landed 126 passengers and a dog in one go.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Ingrea, of Amsterdam
While the wind was blowing a gale on the 24th February, the Gull Light-ship fired signals of distress for a ship on the Goodwin, and the Van Kook life-boat was at once launched, and proceeded to the sands, when the ship Ingrie, of Amsterdam,...