LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Aberdeen Steam Trawler, Braconmoor
Longhope (The Orkneys).
At one in the morning on 5th January, the Aberdeen steam trawler, Braconmoor, outward bound for the fishing grounds, went ashore on TornessPoint, in the Orkneys, three and a half miles from Longhope....
(Above) a Fine Example of An Old Faroese Lutheran Church Close By Torshaven the Capital of the Islands
(Above) A fine example of an old Faroese Lutheran Church, close by Torshaven, the capital of the islands.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Oil on Troubled Waters
It is not wonderful that the reputed power of oil to calm " troubled waters," and to rob the ocean, in its angry moments, of the greater part of its power for evil against men and ships, should have ex- cited a very wide-spread...
Category: Articles
On 5Th May, 1943, the Wells Life-Boat Took Part In An Interesting Service In Which the R.A.F. for the First Time Dropped An Airborne Life-Boat to a 'Ditched' Bomber Crew Off the East Anglian Coast. Th
On 5th May, 1943, the Wells life-boat took part in an interesting service in which the R.A.F. for the first time dropped an airborne life-boat to a 'ditched' bomber crew off the East Anglian coast. The 'ditched' crew received... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Services of Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
NORTH SUNDEHLAND.— At 2 P.M. on the 1st January 1901 the Life-boat Thomas Bewick was launched and brought ashore the Crew of four men of the ketch Pallas, of Jersey, which had stranded on the Longstone rock, where she became a total...
Category: Services
Bookshelf
Scapa Flow in War and Peace by W.S. Hewison published by Bellavista Publications at £8.00 ISBN 0-9525350-0-9 Although mention of the name Scapa Flow immediately brings to mind the area's naval connections this 270sq mile patch of...
Category: Articles
The Steamers R. J. Cullen, Empire Homer, Ingrid, and Eugenie S. Embiricos
JANUARY 16TH - 26TH. - BARRA ISLAND, HEBRIDES. At nine in the evening of the 15th the Kyle coastguard telephoned that a vessel was ashore two miles N.W. by W. of Barra Head, and the life-boat crew were assembled. Shortly afterwards another...
Lecture on Life-Boats
Self-righting.—I come now to the explanation of a property which, by comparison, is a novel one, although more than two-thirds of the life-boats in the United Kingdom are now provided with it,— a property the value of which has been disputed...
Category: Articles
Rnli News
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Traditional rivalry between the cities of Glasgow and Edinburgh is being used to good effect following the declared intent of Glasgow's Lord Provost, The Right Honorable Robert Gray, JP, that the...
Category: Articles
The Motor Life-Boats of the Institution. No. 1.—The 60-Feet Barnett Type
THE 60-feet Barnett type of Motor Life- boat is the largest, fastest and most powerful in the Institution's Fleet, with the exception of the one Motor Life- boat designed and built for the special circumstances of service in the Straits...
Category: Articles