LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Prepare for the Worst
LAST YEAR'S capsize of the roll-on roll-off ferry Herald of Free Enterprise close to Zeebrugge Harbour entrance, brought sharply into focus the need for emergency services on land and at sea to be alert and ready to cope with the myriad...
Category: Articles
The British and Foreign Sailors' Society
As our readers are aware, the subjects treated on in this journal have been exclusively those which are either directly, or indirectly, connected with the function of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION—the " Preservation of Life...
Category: Articles
Haberdine, of Teignmouth
On the 14th March the schooner ffaberdine, of Teignmouth, on making Padstow harbour, was driven ashore on the Dunbar Sand. The life-boat was quickly alongside, and rescued her crew of 4 men. The vessel became shortly after a total wreck. The...
Pilot Me & The Royal Empire
Early on the morning of the 19th January several fishing boats put off, the weather at the time being fine, and the wind westerly. Later on the wind changed to the north and blew a gale, and the sea got up and broke heavily off the harbour...
Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.
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List of the Two Hundred and Forty-two Life-Boat Stations...
Category: Advertisement
The S.S Jersey Queen
OCTOBER 6TH. - FALMOUTH, CORNWALL.
At 7.15 P.M the coastguard at St. Anthony reported that distress signals had been seen about two and a half miles off the Point. A moderate S.W. breeze was blowing, with a very rough sea....
The S.S. M.J Hedly
On the night of the 13th January the s.s. M. J.
Hedley, of Penzance, collided with the mail steamer Connaught, and was so badly damaged that her crew were compelled to desert her. A message reaching Holyhead, the steam Life...
New Ways of Raising Money
The following letter and a cheque for 3Q dollars from Mr, Charles de Burgh Daly (Chuck Daly) was received by his aunt, Mrs. E. Stewart of Kilbrittain, Co. Cork, and forwarded to the Courtmacsherry life-boat branch: "The. White House,...
Category: Donations
The Fleetwood M.V. Eleanora
FLEETWOOD MOTOR VESSEL BREAKS DOWN Fleetwood, Lancashire. At 12.30 a.m.
on Sunday the 1st September, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that red flares were being burnt about half a mile east of Danger Patch...
The Gold Medal Service at Bally Cotton
As a result of the account by Mr.
Robert H. Mahony, honorary secretary of the Ballycotton station, in the June issue of The Life-boat, of the very gallant service of the Ballycotton motor life-boat to the Daunt Rock...
Category: Services