LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
March of Liverpool and Richard,of Bangor
On the 19th of February, the schooners March, of Liverpool, and Richard, of Ban- gor, were stranded in Moelfre Bay, during a heavy gale of wind from the N.E. Both vessels at once showed signals of distress, which were promptly responded to...
Royal National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck (4)
National INSTITUTION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK. ESTABLISHED IN SUPPORTED BY VOLUNTARY SUBSCRIPTIONS. PATRONESS. HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE QUEEN. VICE-FATUOUS. HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE ALBERT, K.G. HIS MAJESTY THE...
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Spectator, of Whitby
On the same day the barque Spectator, of Whitby, was ob- served from Yarmouth to part from her cables, and after coming into collision with another vessel, to drive in the direc- tion of the Scroby Sands. The Mark Lane life-boat went off...
Feature the Caister Life-Boat Disaster
Thankfully, lifeboat disasters are rare. Lifeboats are designed to withstand the very worst conditions and on occasions in recent years many crews have had cause to be grateful to the self-righting capability of modern lifeboats. The sea is...
Category: Articles
Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
THE object of this Institution, as declared in its title, is to afford assistance to every Shipwrecked Person around the coasts of the United Kingdom.
The chief means by which it hopes to carry this object into effect are—...
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Search for divers THE SUPPORT BOAT of a party of divers contacted the coastguard at 1355 on the afternoon of Sunday September 15, 1985, to say that two of their divers had not surfaced from their diving on the wreck of ss Teddington, about...
Four and a Half Years of War.
In four and a half years of war our life-boatmen have rescued 5536 lives, and have won 200 medals for gallantry. They have rescued twenty-four lives every week since war began..
Category: Articles
When the Duke of Atholl a Deputy Chairman of the Institution Visited Workington Last Year He Met Members of the Crew and Also Officers and Members of Both Workin
When the Duke of Atholl, a deputy chairman of the Institution, visited Workington last year he met members of the crew and also officers and members of both Workington and Maryport ladies' guilds. He presented the silver badge to the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
News from the Branches
IT is proposed in future to publish in The Lifeboat lists of new Branches with the names of their Honorary Secretaries.
The following list is of the Branches which have been formed since the beginning of 1925 :— NORTHERN...
Category: Branches
Dona Marika
Tanker aground A MESSAGE came to the Angle (Pembrokeshire) honorary secretary from St Anne's Head Coastguard at 9.8 p.m.
on August 5, 1973, to say that the oil tanker Dona Marika had run aground on Wooltack Point,...