LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Duchess of York Breaking the Bottle at Montrose
The Duchess of York Breaking The Bottle at Montrose. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Winter Sponsored Raft Race on the River Dee Organised By the Aberdeen Branch of the British Sub-Aqua Club Raised £380 for Aberdeen's New Arun Lifeboat Bp Fortie
A winter sponsored raft race on the River Dee organised by the Aberdeen Branch of the British Sub-Aqua Club raised £380 for Aberdeen's new Arun lifeboat BP Forties. The 27 starters were sent on their way by Coxswain Albert Bird, who... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Diana III, of Appledore
SEPTEMBER 12TH. - PADSTOW, CORNWALL.
At 6.46 in the evening the Bude coastguard reported that a boat, a mile off Bude breakwater, needed help. A strong west-south-west wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. At seven o’clock...
The S.S. Anversville
Dungeness, Kent.—During the night of the 9th April a message was received from the Royal Naval Shore Signal Station, Dungeness, that a large steamer was ashore near the point. She was the s.s. Anversville, of Antwerp, with about 200 persons...
An Aeroplane (40)
MARCH 31ST. - WICK, CAITHNESSSHIRE.
A British aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £6 13s.
The S.S. Esmond
MARCH 9TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
A message had been received from the coastguard that a heavy explosion had been heard, and a later message said that an S.O.S. had come in from the S.S. Esmond The life-boat Julia...
The S.S. Orkney Trader
Buckie, Banffshire. At 9.30 on the morning of the 5th of February, 1958, the coastguard informed the coxswain that the S.S. Orkney Trader, of Kirk- wall, was in danger of driving ashore two and a half miles north of Buckie.
April (1)
CROOKHAVEN, Co. CORK. At one in the afternoon of the 31st of December, 1945, six men put out in a six-oar rowing boat to salve a bale of rubber about two miles at sea. A south-south-east wind of almost gale force was blowing, with a very...
Category: Services
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
SOUTHWOLD, SUFFOLK. — The ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has recently provided a new sailing-boat of the improved Norfolk and Suffolk type for South wold, in the place of a boat stationed there many years since. It is 44 feet long and...
Category: Articles
Around the Fundraising Regions
Around the Fundraising Regions A list of branches and guilds from the South East and North West of England regions SOUTH EAST of ENGLAND Surrey RNLI River House Bell Lane Uckfield East Sussex TN22 1AE Tel(0825) 761466 Regional Organiser M.J....
Category: Branches