LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Screw Collier Ludworth
HASBOROUGH, NORFOLK.—On Sunday, the 2nd October, shortly before 5 o'clock in the morning, the screw collier Ludworth, of London, bound from Hartlepool to London, having sprung a leak, ran aground on Hasborough beach during a fresh gale...
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 28th April, 1927.
Sir GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the Chair.
Reported the death of the Lord Brownlow, and also of Mr. Henry E. Fargus, Members of the Committee of...
Category: Committee
Life-Boat Saturday Fund
LIST OF OFFICERS.
PRESIDENT.
H.R.H. The PRINCE OF WALKE, K.G.
PRESIDENT OF THE LADIES' AUXILIARIES—H.R.H. The PRINCESS or WALES.
CENTRAL COMMITTEE.
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Category: Articles
Destruction of the Passenger Steam-Ship, "Austria," By Fire
THE steam-ship, Austria, of 2,500 tons, one of the Hamburg line of screw steam-packets, running between that place and New York, sailed from Southampton on the 4th Sept.
last for New York. Her passengers numbered 425, and...
Category: Articles
R.N.L.I. Delegation's Visit to the United States
THE Institution's decision to acquire a 44-foot life-boat of the kind now operated by the United States Coast Guard was a direct consequence of the international life-boat conference held in Edinburgh in June, 1963. At the conference the...
Category: Articles
The Present Life-Boat House (left) at Ilfracombe Nestles at the Foot of Lantern Hill Where There Is a Fishermen's Chapel Dedicated to St. Nicholas
The present life-boat house (left) at Ilfracombe nestles at the foot of Lantern Hill where there is a fishermen's chapel dedicated to St. Nicholas. The new life-boat L/oyd'j II (right) is launched by tractor over the site of the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Naming Ceremony at Coverack
SIR ARTHUR. QUILLER-COUCH, Professor of English Literature at Cambridge University, and Commodore of the Fowey Yacht Club, presented to the Institution on 26th July at Coverack, Cornwall, a motor life-boat which has been built out of a...
Category: Inaugurations
Cromer Bowman's Gallantry. Attempt to Rescue a Drowning Man
Attempt to Rescue a Drowning Man.
ON the morning of 17th February last a number of fishing boats from Shering- ham, on the coast of Norfolk, went out after whelks. Before they returned a heavy sea had got up, and the...
Category: Services
What a Lot of Bottle!
Scarborough man Len Dale caught 'lifeboatmania' some months ago and started fund raising for Scarborough lifeb'oat. Over that period he and his committee have raised several thousand pounds which is to be devoted to alterations... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Coxswain and His Crew Put Off to the Rescue on Receipt of a Distress Call Received Through Hm Coastguard
The coxswain and his crew put off to the rescue on receipt of a distress call received through HM Coastguard.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs