LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Danish Steamer Alexandra
FEBRUARY 3RD. - HOLY ISLAND , NORTHUMBERLAND. The Danish steamer Alexandra, of Esbjerg, had been bombed and machine-gunned by German aircraft, but the life-boat found nothing. - Rewards, £8 14s. 6d.
(Right) the Rigid Hull Is Divided Into Watertight Compartments By Five Longitudinal Wooden Box Girders and Seven Transverse Watertight Bulkheads
(Right) the rigid hull is divided into watertight compartments by five longitudinal wooden box girders and seven transverse watertight bulkheads . . .. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Chemical Tanker E.C.E. (1)
Channel Island collision Alderney's Trent class Roy Barker I and St Peter Port's Severn class Spirit of Guernsey attended in the early hours of 31 January 2006 after chemical tanker fCf collided with the bulk carrier Crot-Rowecki....
Alabama, of Goole
HUNSTANTON.—Early on the 14th April the schooner Alabama, of Goole, while on a voyage from Cliff Creek to Hull was wrecked on the Woolpack Sands, during a gale at E.N.E., accompanied by a heavy fall of snow. The Life-boat Licensed Victualler...
The Corton Lightvessel
During a whole N.E. gale and very heavy sea on the 26th March the Coastguard reported at 6.45 A.M. that the Corton Light-vessel was firing signals of distress. The crew of the No. 1 Life-boat Mark Lane were assembled, and the Life-boat, in...
Auffredy, of Sunderland
HARTLEPOOL.—At 10 o'clock on the night of the 1st October, the No. 1 Lifeboat, Charles Mather, gallantly rescued, in a heavy surf, 3 men, being part of the crew of the barque Auffredy, of Sunderland, which had driven ashore 3i miles...
Below the Size of the Latest Boathouse Reconstruction at Angle
Below The size of the latest boathouse reconstruction at Angle was one of the benchmarks when considering the new slipway class. In the event a lifeboat size was chosen which would fit in half of the existing houses - leaving Angle with... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Cromer Lightvessel
Cromer, Norfolk.—At 11.25 on the morning of the 2nd of October, 1954, the Superintendent of Trinity House at Yarmouth asked if the life-boat would fetch a very sick man from the Cromer lightvessel. At 11.40 the No. 1 life- boat Henry...
Idaho, of Bath U.S.
Early on the morning of the 13th Jan. intelligence was received that a vessel was shewing signals of distress off this place. On the Life-boat Alfred and'Ernest being taken to the spot it was found that the ship Idaho, of Bath, U.S.,...
The Belgian Yacht Haura (1)
Lifeboatmen transferred to Belgian yacht in gale and heavy seas A joint service by Southwold's Atlantic 21 class lifeboat Quiver and Lowestoft's Tyne Spirit of Lowestoft has won two lifeboatmen framed letters of thanks from the...