LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Swiss Steamer Lugano
Berwick-on-Tweed, Northumberland.
—At seven o'clock on the evening of the 16th of November, 1952, the coast- guard telephoned that a vessel east-by- north of the pier had signalled for a doctor as her master felt ill....
Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
FOR the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.
(Incorporated by Royal Charter.) FOUNDED IN 1824. — SUPPORTED SOLELY BY VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS.
PATRON.
Her most Gracious Majesty the...
Category: Advertisement
A New Type of Motor Life-Boat
AT the end of last year we began building the first of a new type of Motor Life-boat.
She will be by far the largest and most powerful Motor Life-boat in the Instituincreased tion's Fleet, and will, in fact, be the...
Category: Articles
The Deep-Sea Trawler Boston Jaguar
Explosion at sea AN EXPLOSION, on the night of November 15, 1973, aboard the 300-ton deep-sea trawler Boston Jaguar, 37 miles 020° (T) from Cromer, Norfolk, left the ship without steering gear, with her mate killed and a crew member...
The End of Another Successful Service for Coxswain Derek Scott (Right) and Two of His Crew Garry Ridd and Jack Whitford Photographs By Courtesy of 'south Wale
the end of another successful service for Coxswain Derek Scott (right) and two of his crew, Garry Ridd and Jack Whitford. - View image in PDF
photographs by courtesy of 'South Wales Evening Post'. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Crew of the "Henrietta" With Coxswain W. G. Fleming (Left) and the Motor Mechanic of the Gorleston Motor Life-Boat (Right)
The Crew of the "Henrietta" With Coxswain W G Fleming (Left) and The Motor Mechanic of the Gorleston Motor Life-Boat (Right). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Haminella
TWO CASUALTIES TAKEN OFF TANKER Penlee, Cornwall. At eleven o'clock on the morning of the 5th May, 1962, the honorary secretary was asked if the life-boat could be launched later in the day to bring a sick man and an injured man ashore...
Northumbrian Coast and the Egyptian Prince
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 5.3 on the afternoon of the 4th of March, 1953, the coastguard reported that two vessels had been in collision near Lower Hope Buoy and that one was beginning to sink. The life-boat Greater London, Civil Service No...
German Gratitude for a Life-Boat Rescue. Award of Iron Plaque to the Crew at Thurso, Caithness-Shire
THE German Government has awarded to the Crew of the Life-boat at Thurso, Caithness-shire, " an Iron Plaque for rescue from distress at sea," diplomas to the Coxswain, Second Coxswain and Bowman, and certificates to the members of...
Category: Services
The S.S. Cairo City
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.— At 4.34 in the morning of the 24th of September, 1949, the Gorleston coast- guard telephoned that the Cross Sand Lightvessel, which had a crew of seven, had reported that she had been in collision and...