LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Lifeboat Service - Past and Present
725 Years Ago The following item was first published in THE LIFEBOAT of January, 1861.
VALUE OF BAROMETRICAL INDICATION.
ON the occasion of the hurricane which swept the island of St. Kilda, in the...
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Special Gifts for the Life-Boat Service
As readers of The Life-Boat are aware, the Institution is always glad to receive sums for the provision not only of Lifeboats, but of the many indispensable accessories, which vary from a slipway, costing sometimes as much as, and more than,...
Category: Donations
The Life-Boat Service In Ireland
SINCE 1924 Mr. Timothy Healy, the Governor-General of the Irish Free State, has been the Patron of the Irish Free State District of the Institution, and when he accepted the Patronship he issued an earnest appeal to the people of the Free...
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The Wreck Register and Chart for 1857
THE extensive and increasing commerce of the United Kingdom renders unfortunately shipwrecks on its shores a matter of daily occurrence. Indeed, their frequency is so great, that in the aggregate the public at large fail to realise the...
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The Romanian Cargo Ship Savinesti (1)
Blizzard ON THURSDAY MORNING February 15 a Romanian cargo ship, Savinesti, with 28 people on board was reported in distress 125° 37.5 miles from Spurn Point; she had engine failure and was dragging her anchor. After liaison (made more...
The Motor Pleasure Vessel Southend Britannia
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—During the morning of the 29th of March, 1952, the local motor pleasure vessel South- end Britannia parted her moorings in bad weather and was driven ashore a hundred yards east of the pier. The owner asked for the...
The Liberian Motor-Vessel Brother George
LIBERIAN VESSEL Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. At 2.30 a.m. on 23rd February, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a vessel was aground opposite Brook coastguard lookout. There was a near gale from the south-east with a rough sea,...
"There Was No Panic Among the Passengers."
On board the ketch Mystery, of Glasgow, which was towed to safety by the Weston-super-Mare motor life-boat on 9th December, 1937, with a man, his wife and baby on board. - View image in PDF
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Category: Photographs
The Chief Helmsman of St.Abbs' Lifeboat
The chief helmsman of St Abbs' lifeboat.
Alastair Crowe (left) receives a cheque for £41.385 from Douglas Cameron, broadcaster with LBC Radio, the result of an appeal arranged via LBC and Marinecall to fund new... - View image in PDF
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The Duchess of Kent at Penlee
WHEN the Duchess of Kent, President of the Institution, made a tour of Corn- wall in May, she visited the life-boat station at Penlee. She was received there by Mr. Barrie Bennetts, M.B.E., the honorary secretary, who holds the...
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