LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Photographs Which Capture the True Nature the Weather In Which Lifeboats Operate Are Rare
Photographs which capture the true nature of the weather in which lifeboats operate are rare - but this picture of the Portrush (Ireland Division) Arun Richard Evans (Civil Service No.39) on 13 February 1989 certainly does.
Category: Photographs
A Dutch Life-Boat Rescue
The Scheveningen motor life-boat ZeemansLoop rescuing nine men of a Scheveningen fishing boat, 9th October, 1938. The Secretary of th. North and South Holland Life-saving Society writes: " This was one of the finest and riskiest rescues... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Besty Ann, of Port Gordon
On the 4th August a severe gale from N.N.W. burst over this coast, and the fishing fleet, which did not return the previous evening, when the weather became threatening, was caught in the gale. The lugger Betsey Ann, of Port Gordon, N.B.,...
The French Life-Boat Service
By M. GRANJON de LEPINEY, Administrates Delegue.
[The footnotes are by the Editor of " The Life-Boat"] THE Central Society for Saving the Ship- wrecked * was founded in 1865 in the following circumstances. The...
Category: Articles
"The Merchant Shipping Bill of 1869." (Second Article.)
IN our last Number we gave a summary of this most important Bill, which we trust will be consummated as the " Merchant Shipping Act, 1870," in the next Session of Parliament.
We likewise commented on those...
Category: Articles
(Left) Whitby: at a Ceremony of Dedication on May 3 Miss Gwynaeth Milburn Watches As Alan Marshall Branch Chairman Pours Champagne on a New D Class Ilb Th
(Left) Whitby: At a ceremony of dedication on May 3, Miss Gwynaeth Milburn watches as Alan Marshall, branch chairman, pours champagne on a new D class ILB, the second lifeboat she has given to the station; Miss Milburn is also the donor of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Araucania
Late on the night of the 25th October the s.a.
Araucania of Glasgow stranded on the rooks known as the " Inches," outside Ardrossan harbour. The vessel had left dock with a cargo of coals for Genoa, and broke down...
Peeks of Bournemouth
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Category: Advertisement
DUCKHAMS OIL
Alexander Duckham & Co. Ltd. are to provide lubricants free of charge to the R.N.L.I, for its life-boats. Their products have been accepted by the technical staff and the company has agreed to provide their service for a period of five...
Category: Donations
The Ladies' Life-Boat Guild
The Ladies' Life-boat Guild, of which H.R.H. the Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, is the Patron, and the Duchess of Sutherland the President, has added three distinguished names to its officers.
The Duchess of...
Category: Articles