LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Dutch Service to a British Steamer. 41 Lives Rescued from a Vessel of the Elder Dempster Line
T/ie following is an abbreviated version of a graphic account of a fine service to a British vessel which appears in De Reddingboot, the journal of the North and South Holland Life-saving Society, for last June. The three Life-boats engaged...
Category: Services
The S.S. Baron Haig
Workington, Cumberland. — On the 30th of December, 1954, the S.S. Baron Haig, of Ardrossan, which was lying at anchor off the entrance to the harbour, wirelessed that she had a sick man on board and needed a doctor. At three o'clock in...
Sarah Todd and David Collins Surrounded By Other Children from Fairfield Primary School Penarth
Sarah Todd and David Collins, surrounded by other children from Fairfield Primary School, Penarth, present a cheque for £90 to Captain W. G.
Sommerfield, honorary secretary of Penarth station branch, and to Mrs... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, Tor the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.
founded in 1824.—Supported Try Voluntary Subscriptions.
PATRONESS.
HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE...
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Fortieth Anniversary of the Service to the "Eider."
ON the night of Sunday, the 31st Janu- ary, 1892, the four-masted steamer Eider, of Bremen, of 4,719 tons, the Norddeutscher Lloyd, stranded on the reef of rocks in the Isle of Wight, known as Atherfield Ledge. There was a thick fog, the...
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Service to a Tanker of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary
AT 3.40 on the afternoon of 17th November, 1962 the honorary secre- tary of the Clovelly life-boat station, Mr. J. C. Hilton, learnt from the coast- guard that a tug was firing red flares three miles north-west of Hartland Point. Five...
Category: Services
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution (continued.)
AYR,N.B.—The brigantine Maggie Wood, of Belfast, bound from that port to Ayr in ballast, stranded on the Barton Rocks, about a mile and a half south of Ayr Harbour, during a gale of wind from the W.N.W. and a heavy sea on the evening of the...
Category: Services
The St. Ives Motor Life-Boat at Sea
Leaving Newlyn Harbour on her passage from Cowes to her station.. - View image in PDF
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Obituary
It is with deep regret that we have to announce the death on 23rd November, 1966, at the age of 72, of Colonel Alexander Denis Burnett Brown, O.B.E., M.C., T.D., who was Secretary of the Institution from 1947 to 1960.
He...
Category: Obituaries