LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Motor Cruiser (1)
SEPTEMBER 29TH. - BEAUMARIS, ANGLESEY.
A motor cruiser had broken away from her moorings, with people on board, but was later reported to be at anchor. - Rewards, £5 19s..
A Vessel (1)
JANUARY 5TH. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE. A vessel had been reported to be signalling by siren, but no vessel in distress could be found. - Rewards, £14 9s. 6d.
A Sailing Yacht
JUNE 10TH. - HOWTH, CO. DUBLIN.
At 10.20 at night a telephone call was received from the owner of a sailing yacht, that the yacht, with his son, his sister and a man on board, was being driven out to sea by a strong...
A Vessel (3)
DECEMBER 18TH. - FOWEY, CORNWALL.
A vessel, believed to have been torpedoed, had been reported in distress, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £13 2s. 6d..
A Steam Trawler
MARCH 29TH. - BALLYCOTTON, CO. CORK. At 10.30 in the morning the honorary secretary was on watch on the cliffs above Ballycotton when he saw a steam trawler about eight and a half miles south of Ballycotton. She was blowing off steam, as if...
A Vessel (34)
OCTOBER 29TH. - BARRA ISLAND, HEBRIDES. A vessel had been reported in distress about ten miles east of Barra Head, but nothing could be found. - Rewards : first launch, £10 13s. ; second launch £21 2s. 6d.
A Model of 'The Original' Built By Henry Greathead of South 'shields In 1789 'The Original' Lifeboat Was Based on a Model By William Would Have to Which Modifications Were Made By Nicholas
A model of 'The Original'.
Built by Henry Greathead of South 'Shields in 1789. 'The Original' lifeboat was based on a model by William Wouldhave to which modifications were made by Nicholas fairies.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
No Sea Room from Page 18
No Sea Room from page 18 and one man was clinging to the gunwale and the other two were just inside the bulwarks clinging to his legs. Of course you always wonder what's going to happen to the last man off, because there will be nobody...
Category: Articles
Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, 2nd April, 1857. His Grace the PRESIDENT in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance, Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub-Committees.
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Category: Committee
Praise from the Pensioners
Two letters of appreciation of the life-boat service, both enclosing donations, have recently been written to the Institution by old age pensioners.
Eighty-two year old Mrs. Emily Stabback, of Greenwich, London S.E.io,...
Category: Correspondence