LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Great Western
The Great Western sponsored snorkle under way in the floating harbour, Bristol, on May 10.
Wessex Federation of Diving Clubs, which organised the event, was supported by 220 divers from the South West, the South, the Home... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Northern Lights, of Preston
On the 29th October, at 8 p.m., the wind blowing a hard gale from west by north, signal lights were observed from Fleetwood, as if from a vessel in a dangerous position near the Bernard's Wharf Sand. The Fleetwood life-boat was at once...
Ino, of West Hartlepool
On the 10th December, during a heavy gale from S.S.W., the brigantine Ino, of West Hartlepool, was observed making for the shore in an apparently sinking state.
It subsequently appeared that she had been in collision with...
The Belfast Annual Meeting
Front Row. left to right: Mr. Robinson (Honorary Secretary), the Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, the Duke of Montrpse, the Lord Mayor, the High Sheriff, Viscount Bangor.
Back Row : The District Organizing Secretary, the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Gratitude, of Aberystwith,
On the 28th Feb. this life-boat again went out in reply to signals of distress from the schooner Gratitude, of Aberystwith, which, while attempting to cross the bar in a heavy ground sea, had struck on the edge of the North Bank." It...
Fishing Boats
PETERHEAD, SCOTLAND.—The People's Journal No. 1 Life-boat was launched at noon on the 5th of January, 1886, some of the boats engaged in the haddock fishery having been overtaken by a strong gale of wind from the N.E. and. a heavy sea....
The Life-Boat Stamp Club
THE Life-boat Stamp Club, which was started at the end of 1933 by Miss Margaret Power, of Mount Royal, Old Qommon, Cobham, Surrey, honorary secretary of the Cobham branch of the Institution, now has a branch of its own at Cromer. This branch...
Category: Articles
Richard and Harriet, of Hull
One other service has also been per- formed by the Kingsdowne Life-boat this year, on the llth February. It appears that during the previous night it had been blowing a gale, and at daylight during a strong breeze from the...
The S.S. Bonita
Lytham, Lancashire.—At 11.10 Oil the night of the 23rd of September, 1956, the Formby coastguard tele- phoned that the S.S. Bonita, of Stock- holm, had a man on board who had drunk poison and needed immediate medical attention. At...
Mr. W. J. Oliver, Honorary Secretary of the Sunderland Branch
Mr. W. J. Oliver, who died on 4th March, had been Honorary Secretary of the Sunderland Branch for twenty-five years, and for nearly fifty years had been actively connected with the work of saving life from shipwreck. When he was appointed in...
Category: Obituaries