LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Landing Craft of the Royal Navy
Weston-super-Mare, Somerset.—At 5.25 in the evening on the 2nd of Feb- ruary, 1950, the pier master reported that a landing craft of the Royal Navy had fired Verey lights in the direction of the Langford Grounds. At 5.55 the life-boat Fifi...
The Romanian Cargo Ship Savinesti (1)
Blizzard ON THURSDAY MORNING February 15 a Romanian cargo ship, Savinesti, with 28 people on board was reported in distress 125° 37.5 miles from Spurn Point; she had engine failure and was dragging her anchor. After liaison (made more...
R. M. Ballantyne's "The Life-Boat."
IT is thirty-two years since R. M.
Ballantyne died, and last year was the centenary of his birth. He was writing for nearly forty years, his first book being published in 1856, and in that time he produced eighty volumes....
Category: Articles
Birds Eye Foods
Backbone of the FishingTrade.
This was one that didn't get away. One of a thousand million.
A thousand million of the reasons why every day and night men put out to sea in all weathers to earn their...
Category: Advertisement
Birds Eye Foods
Backbone of the FishingTrade.
This was one that didn't get away. One of a thousand million.
A thousand million of the reasons why every day and night men put out to sea in all weathers to earn their...
Category: Advertisement
The Screw Steamer Benjamin Whitworth, of Middlesborough
On the 14th November both the Life- boats on the Caister station, as well as the Yarmouth No. 1 Life-boat, the Mark Lane, went off to the assistance of the screw-steamer Benjamin Whitworth, of Middlesborough, which had grounded on the Cross...
The Fifth International Life-Boat Conference
By COMMODORE THE DUKE OF MONTROSE, K.T., C.B., C.V.O., V.D., LL.D., R.N.V.R., Treasurer of the Royal National Life-boat Institution and Chairman of the Scottish Life-boat Council.
THIS has been a great event in the...
Category: Meetings
The War Department Landing Craft L.405
Stromness, Orkneys.—At seven o'clock on the evening of the 9th of December, 1955, the Kirkwall coastguard rang up to say that a landing barge had run ashore at Ness Beacon. At 7.18 the life-boat Archibald and Alexander...
The Motor Drifter White Heather
— On the evening of the 9th November a police- man reported that a man on Brechou Island had telephoned that a vessel thought to be his motor drifter White Heather, was showing signals of distress about three miles north of Sark. A...
Sir Alec Rose, the round-the-world sailor, launched the Yachtsmen's Life-boat Supporters' Association at the International Boat Show at Earls Court, London,
Sir Alec Rose, the round-the-world sailor, launched the Yachtsmen's Life-boat Supporters' Association at the International Boat Show at Earls Court, London, on 2nd January, 1969. As a founder member Sir Alec is entitled to fly the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs