LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Warren Grove (2)
Arbroath, Broughty Ferry, and Montrose, Angus.—At 12.50 in the afternoon of the 10th of November, 1948, the Arbroath coastguard telephoned the Arbroath life-boat station that the S.S. El Ciervo, of London, had reported that she had picked...
The Spanish Barque Primera de Torrevieja
On the 7th August, the Spanish barque Pritnera de Torrevieja, bound from Liverpool to the Havannah, with a valuable cargo, ran ashore on the Blackwater Bank. Information having been conveyed to the Cahore life- boat station, 12 miles distant...
List of Launches
Aberdeen ALB ON 1248: Nov 13 (Twice) Abersoch 1LB B-582: Jan 5 Aberystwyth ILB B-704: Dec 10. Feb 17 and Feb 21 Aith ALB ON 1232: Nov 1 ALB ONI 103: Dec 14 Aldehurgh ALB ONI 193: Nov 20 ILBD-520: Nov 20 Amble ALB ON 1176: Jan 29 and Feb 9...
Category: Services
The Balloon Vessel Thora
APRIL 26TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
At 2.50 A.M. the naval authorities reported that the balloon vessel Thora had got on to the boom defence, but that the tug Yorkshireman was going to her help. A whole W.S.W. gale was...
Mary, of Liverpool
About 2 o'clock on the 7th March, at which time it was blowing hard from the E., with a heavy sea, the schooner Mary, of Liverpool, bound from Maryport Eostrevor, struck on the South Bull near the mouth of the Boyne. The No. 2 Life-boat...
Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards
LONDON, TUESDAY MAY 15 pride in the past: inspiration for the future THE 1984 ANNUAL MEETINGS of the RNLI at the Royal Festival Hall, London, on Tuesday May 15, will long be remembered by all who attended. The afternoon presentation of...
Category: Meetings
The Danish Gas Tanker Inga Tholstrup (1)
Gas tanker aground A DANISH GAS TANKER, Inga Tholstrup, ran aground on Craig Waugh, two miles south east of Inchkeith in the Firth of Forth, early in the morning of Monday November 10, 1986. Forth Coastguard alerted Dunbar lifeboat station,...
Mr Hugh Cudlipp OBE Chairman of the International Publishing Corporation Ltd Presented Awards at the Annual Meeting of the RNLI at Central Hall Westminster O
Mr. Hugh Cudlipp, O.B.E., Chairman of the International Publishing Corporation Ltd., presented awards at the annual meeting of the R.N.L.I. at Central Hall, Westminster, on 25th March, 1969. Here Coxswain Derek Scott of The Mumbles life-boat... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Services of Foreign Life-Boats to British Vessels In 1934
DURING 1934 services were rendered off the shores of foreign countries to 34 British vessels in distress, and 69 lives were rescued from them. Of these lives 22 were rescued off the Danish coast and 44 off the coast of...
Category: Services
Fig 4 (Below): Plating of the First of the Two Prototype Fast Slipway Lifeboats Is Complete And
Fig. 4 (below): Plating of the first of the two prototype fast slipway lifeboats is complete and the hull has been turned through 180 degrees so that it is now right way up. A welder is at work attaching deck fittings to the deck stringer... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs