LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
This Is Not the Start of the Tall Ships Race But the Excitement
This is not the start of the tall ships race but the excitement and competition felt at the start of the Pimlico Boat Race was comparable with it. Thirty-six 'boats' took part, each with a sponsored crew of four who raced their way... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Collisions at Sea. The Loss of the Princess Alice
THE year 1878 will long be remembered by the inhabitants of London as the year in which the passenger steamer Princess Alice was sunk in the Thames by collision with the Bywell Castle, with the loss of more than 600 persons, out of about 850...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat Transporting-Carriage
The Life-boat transporting-carriage is a very important auxiliary to the boat.
Nearly every Life-boat, except a few of the larger sizes, is provided with a carriage, on which she is kept in the boat-house ready for...
Category: Articles
Blyth Motor Life-Boat: The Inaugural Ceremony
THE Blyth station is one of the oldest on the coast — it was established in 1826, two years after the Institution itself was founded — and the inaugural ceremony of the Joseph Adlam, the Motor Life-boat which arrived at the station on 4th...
Category: Inaugurations
Donation from the Scottish Fisheries
IT will be remembered that during the terrible gales in the winter of 1929 to 1930, great damage was done to the Scottish fishing fleet. On one day, llth November, 1929, it was estimated that the fleet, when fishing off the East Anglian...
Category: Donations
Life-Boatmen In the Navy.
Coxswain Angus Mackintosh of Thurso, Caithness-shire, who is serving in the Navy as a petty officer, has been awarded the Distinguished Service Medal for his work in the Norwegian campaign.
Two members of the life-boat crew...
Category: Articles
The Latvian Steamer Helena Faulbaums
Port Askaig, Isle of Islay, and Barra Island, Hebrides.—On the night of the 26th October the Latvian steamer Helena Faulbaums, of Riga, bound light from Liverpool to Blyth, was caught in a sudden and exceptionally severe storm near Jura...
City of Glasgow Ill's Y-Boat Takes Five Belgian Yachtsmen Off the Yacht Bassurelle After She Had Been Driven Aground By Onshore Winds
City of Glasgow Ill's Y-Boat Takes Five Belgian Yachtsmen Off The Yacht Bassurelle After She Had Been Driven Aground By Onshore Winds. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Two Landing Craft The L.B.V.33, and The L.B.V.42
JANUARY 2 4TH. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. About 2.30 in the afternoon the naval authorities asked, through the coastguard, for the life-boat to go to the help of two landing craft about a mile south of Shoreham. A strong southerly wind was...
The Steamers North Gwalia and Mauranger
The No. 1 Life-boat Mark Lane was also launched on the 25th April in connection with the collision of the steamers North Gwalia and Mauranger, but on reaching the former found that she had sunk and was abandoned. A tug came up and re-...