LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Selection of a New Life-Boat
THIS question was briefly touched on in the article in this Journal on " The Changes in the Institution's Life-boat Fleet since 1897," published in February last. Not very many years ago it was brought as a charge against the...
Category: Articles
The Dutch Cargo Vessel Helemar H
Dunmore East, Co. Waterford. At 3.20 on the morning of the 13th of February, 1959, a message was received from the honorary secretary at Rosslare Harbour that a Dutch vessel was stran- ded on the rocks in Dunmore Bay and was sending...
H.R.H. Princess Margaret Met Mr. J. Tofton, Who Is Now the Chief Rigger at the Depot, at the RNLI Stand at the International Boat Show
H.R.H. Princess Margaret met Mr. J. Tofton, who is now the chief rigger at the Depot, at the RNLI stand at the International Boat Show. The Princess was escorted by the Secretary of the Institution, Mr. Stirling Whorlow.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Life-Boat Station at Porto De Leixoes, on the Coast North of the River Douro, Portugal
The Life-Boat Station at Porto De Leixoes on the Coast North of the River Douro Portugal. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The After Effects of the Boxing Day Storm on a Car Parked on Ramsgate's East Pierhead
The after effects of the Boxing Day storm on a car parked on Ramsgate's east pierhead.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Brika
JUNE 16TH. CROMER, NORFOLK. At 7.48 A.M. a message was received from the coastguard that the S.S. Brika, of Swansea, was ashore on the Haisborough Sands. A N.N.E. breeze was blowing, with a light sea.
It was foggy. At 8.5 A...
The Finnish Four-Masted Barque Herzogin Cecilie
Sal combe, Devon. — Early on the morning of the 25th April the Finnish four-masted barque Herzogin Cecilie, of Mariehamn, bound from Australia to Falmouth and Ipswich with a cargo of grain, ran ashore in a thick fog between Sewer Mill Cove...
The Admiralty Oil Tanker Brichol
Nov. 30TH. - BARRA ISLAND HEBRIDES. At 11.10 A.M. a telegram was received from the Stornoway coastguard that a vessel was ashore on Calavay Island, near Eriskay. A southerly wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. At 11.35...
The Crew of Torbay's Arun Edward Bridges (Civil Service No 37)
The crew of Torbay's Arun Edward Bridges (Civil Service No. 37) can only watch as the trawler Tennetje sinks off Start Point, Devon on 17 July 1988.
The lifeboat had been called at 0605 after part of Tennetje's... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Norval, of Seaham
Again, Oh the 31st October, the brigan- tine Noroal, of Seaham, while lying at anchor in Yarmouth Roads, sprang a leak, and the water gained on the vessel so fast that signals of distress were made, where- upon the Caister No. 1 Life-boat...