LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Helsingor
HARWICH.—Kockets were fired by the Cork and Sank light-vessels on the morning of the 17th January while snow was falling and the wind was blowing in squalls from the S. accompanied by a moderate sea. The Life-boat Springwell was launched at...
The Life-Boat Service In 1935. The Busiest Year for Nineteen Years
The Busiest Year for Nineteen Years.
THE year 1935 was for the life-boat service the busiest for nineteen years.
There were 378 launches of life-boats to vessels in distress. To find a larger number one...
Category: Articles
A Potted Drama of the Sea
FOR some time past the Morning Post has published in its " Personal" adver- tisement ' column what it calls " Peter Piper's Potted Plots," three prizes of one pound each being given, each day for the best potted...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Nebarn
GORLESTON, SUFFOLK ; CAISTEB, WIXTERTON-, PALLING, AND CBOMEE, NORFOLK.—In the early hours of 29th January, the s.s. Newbarn of Newcastle, which is a big steamer of more than 3,000 tons, ran aground on the southern end of the Hasboro'...
The S.S. Ben Rein
On the 25th October the s.s. Ben Rein, of Ramsey, sheltering in Caldey Roads while on passage from Penarth to Milford, began to drag her anchors and signalled for help. A strong S.W. breeze was blow- ing, with a heavy sea, and the weather...
The S.S. Invella
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—Early in the evening of the 25th February Lloyd's agent telephoned that a wireless message had been received from s.s. Invella, of Glasgow, reporting that one of her crew was...
The Boulmer Life-Boat and Some of Her Launchers
The Boulmer Life-Boat and Some of Her Launchers. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Portrait on the Cover
The portrait on the cover is of Coxswain Henry Walker, of Holy Island, Northum- berland, who hasjust retired from theserv- ice. He was appointed coxswain at the be- ginning of 1945 and previously served for some eighteen months as bowman....
Category: Articles
Jenny, of Whitby
On the night of the 30th November the same life-boat put off, during stormy weather, and brought safely ashore the crew of 6 men from the brig Jenny, of Whitby, which had struck on the rocks between Souter Point and Whitburn Steel, and soon...
The S.S. Burrington Combe
MAY 8TH. - DONAGHADEE, CO. DOWN.
At 6 A.M. a telephone message was received from the coastguard at Bangor asking for the life-boat to go to a vessel in distress off Portpatrick on the coast of...