LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
WHITBURN, DURHAM.—The NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION forwarded to this important station, in September last, a new 32-feet 10-oared life-boat and transportingcarriage, in the place of the boat and carriage previously there, the old boat...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Dublin Bay
FEBRUARY 27TH. - WICKLOW. At 9.30 in the morning the Wicklow civic guard telephoned to the life-boat mechanic that a ship was ashore in Brittas Bay, about six miles south of Wicklow Head. An eastnorth- east gale was blowing, with very heavy...
Three Russian Seamen Rescued Off Rocks
ON the 16th of October, 1958, the Soviet trawler Urbe, which was believed to have a crew of about twenty-five, sank near the Holm of Skaw, an uninhabited rocky islet off the northeastern corner of the Shetland island of Unst. The trawler was...
Category: Articles
An Aeroplane (103)
JULY 12TH. - CAISTER, NORFOLK. A British bomber had been reported down in the sea, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £7 1s. 6d..
An Aeroplane (110)
JULY 28TH. - PORTIIDINLLAEN CAERNARVONSHIRE. A Hurricane aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £4 14s.
The S.S. Ben Rein
On the 25th October the s.s. Ben Rein, of Ramsey, sheltering in Caldey Roads while on passage from Penarth to Milford, began to drag her anchors and signalled for help. A strong S.W. breeze was blow- ing, with a heavy sea, and the weather...
(Right) Seen from the Air the Piers at the Entrance to Shoreham Harbour
(Right) Seen from the air the piers at the entrance to Shoreham Harbour shows the development of the port over the years. - View image in PDF
The lifeboat station is circled.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Ukranian Cargo Ship Kaptain Dzhurashevich
International assistance from Westcountry lifeboat Penlee's relief Arun class A.J.R. and L.G. Uridge is pictured with two casualties, dealt with in a two-week period.
The lifeboat is pictured preparing to take an...
Our Life-Boat Crews and Property Salvage Services
A CONTROVERSY has apparently arisen of late between the Life-boat Institution and Lloyd's on the subject of Property Salvage Services performed by Life-boat Crews, and it would seem, judging from para- graphs which have appeared in the...
Category: Articles
Carol Sandra and Northwind III
Fishing boats wrecked TWO GERMAN STUDENTS, walking on the cliffs near Breil Nook on Flamborough Head on the morning of Monday, May7, 1984, smelt diesel oil and, looking into the water, saw what appeared to be the overturned hull of a...