LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The British Railways Ferry Princess Victoria (1)
On the 31st of January, 1953, the British Railways ferry Princess Victoria sank in a gale in the Irish Sea.
The Portpatrick, Donaghadee, Clou- ghey and Newcastle, Co. Down, life- boats were all launched on service.
The Dutch Hospital Ship De Hoop
Scarborough, Yorkshire. At six o'clock on the evening of the 22nd of August, 1959, the coastguard told the coxswain that the Dutch hospital ship De Hoop, which was bound for Scarborough and was due to arrive at eight...
Shore Helpers Must Ensure the Lifeboat Runs
Shore helpers must ensure the lifeboat runs straight up the shingle often with more than gentle physical persuasion.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Below: the Remains of Tynemouth Boathouse
Below: The remains of Tynemouth boathouse and the John Pyemont lifeboat, which were destroyed by a German bomb on 9 April 1941.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Dutch Motor Ship Ooster Haven
DECEMBER 17TH. - EXMOUTH, DEVON.
At 4.20 in the afternoon a call was received from a vessel in distress off Beer Head. A strong south-south-west wind was blowing, with a rough sea. The motor life-boat Catherine Harriet...
Coxswain E. Matthews, of the Lizard, Cornwall
Coxswain Edwin Matthews, of the Lizard, has died at the age of eighty- seven. He became second coxswain in 1867, and coxswain in 1876, retiring in 1900 after thirty-three years as an officer ot the life-boat. During that time the station...
Category: Obituaries
Flag Days: An Answer to the Critics
THE following was taken from the editorial column of the West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser, for the 9th of July.
"The caustic criticisms which Corn- wall Police Authority have lately made about flag days may have...
Category: Articles
Chairmanship of the Committee of Management
AT the April meeting of the Committee of Management a letter was received from Earl Waldegrave, P.C., intimating that in view of the fact that he no longer resides in London, and that his health is not quite as good as might be wished, he...
Category: Committee
Notes of the Quarter By Patrick Howarth
RNLI LIFEBOATS spent 186.6 hours at sea in rescues or attempted rescues of yachtsmen taking part in the Fastnet Race in August. They saved the lives of 60 people, landed three others, saved eight boats and in different ways helped 12 other...
Category: Articles
The Aberdeen Trawler Star of Victory
Wick, Caithness-shire.—The Aber- deen trawler Star of Victory had stranded near Keiss on the 25th Octo- ber, 1939, and, as already described, the Wick life-boat City of Edinburgh helped her on that day and rescued her crew of ten on the...