LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Charlotte Schroder (1)
St. Peter Port, Guernsey: and Torbay, Devon.—At 5.40 in the evening of the 4th of August, 1950, it was reported to the St. Peter Port life-boat authorities that the S.S. Charlotte Schroder, of Hamburg, had had a boiler explosion, severely...
The Life-Boat Saturday Fund
THE " season " of the Life-boat Saturday Collections throughout the country opened this year under very favourable auspices, and the Committees, greatly encouraged by the excellent certificate recently given to the movement by the...
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The S.S. Essex Lance (1)
MARCH 13TH - 16TH. - CROMER, AND GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At about 2.35 P.M. information came to Cromer from the coastguard that a vessel, which seemed to be sinking, was about two and a half miles N.W. of Cromer, and was being...
The Life-Boat Service In 1950
THERE were 603 launches of life-boats to the rescue in 1950, only 36 below the record number in 1949—and life-boats rescued 381 lives. Ninety-one lives were rescued by shore-boats, for which the rescuers were rewarded by the Institution,...
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The Duchess of Kent Names the Padstow Life-Boat
THE DUCHESS OF KENT NAMES THE PADSTOW LIFE-BOAT On the left, Commander T. G. Michelmore, T.D., R.N.R., chief inspector of life-boats; behind the Duchess, Colonel A. D. Burnett Brown, M.C., T.D., M.A., Secretary of the Institution (See page... - View image in PDF
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The New Rod Aerial
On the light self-righting life-boat at Bridlington. The loud-hailer is in front of the mast.. - View image in PDF
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The Liberian Tanker Panther (15,840 Tons) Stuck on the Goodwin Sands After Running Aground on 30th March, 1971. Tugs Eventually Got Her Off With (Lower Foreground) the Local Life-Boat Standing
The Liberian tanker Panther (15,840 tons) stuck on the Goodwin Sands after running aground on 30th March, 1971. Tugs eventually got her off with (lower foreground) the local life-boat standing by. An account of this service appears on page... - View image in PDF
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The S.S. Durban Castle
Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 11.5 on the night of the 18th of December, 1958, the port medical officer of Cowes informed the honorary secretary that an injured seaman on board the S.S.
Durban Castle required hospital treat-...
Three Men Rescued from Marie II Thank the Llandudno Coxswain
Three Men Rescued From Marie Ii Thank The Llandudno Coxswain. - View image in PDF
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The S.S. Mercator
DEC. 1ST. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
A ship’s boat had landed at Boddam, with twelve men on board, who reported that, their ship, the S.S. Mercator, of Helsinki, had been sunk by enemy action and that another of the ship‘s...