LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck (1)
Royal National Life-Boat Institution For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.
(Incorporated by Royal Charter.) FOUNDED IN 1824.—SUPPORTED BY VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS.
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The Duchess of Kent and Coxswain Upperton
Coxswain Upperton has twice won the silver medal. The first time was in the war of 1939 to 1945. In the war of 1914 to 1918 he was serving with the Colds,tream Guards in France.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Destroyer H.M.S. Walrus
Teesmouth, and Scarborough, Yorkshire.
—At 4.20 P.M. on the 12th February, 1938, a request was received from the coastguard at Whitby for the motor life-boa.t J. W. Archer, as the destroyer H.M.S. Walrus had broken from her...
The Motor Fleet
THE progress in construction and the results in the past year of the work of the Motor-Boats now on the coast are very satisfactory, and we now give a revised Table of the Motor-Boats with the motors installed in them. A comparison •of this...
Category: Articles
Forty-Two Men Were Saved
EARLY on the morning of the 27th of November, 1954, the 20,125-ton Liberian tanker World Concord, which was in ballast and bound from Liverpool to Syria, broke in two during storms of exceptional violence in the Irish Sea.
Category: Services
Commander P. E. Vaux, D.S.C., R.N. The Chief Inspector of Life-Boats Retires
COMMANDER PHILIP EDWARD VAUX, D.S.C., R.N., Chief Inspector of Life- boats, retired from the service of the Institution on the 30th of June of this year. He had been chief inspector since the 1st of January, 1939.
Commander...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Inga
At noon on the 19th October a message was received from the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board offices that a vessel in the channel was dragging her anchors and making distress signals. A full W. by N. gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea and...
Mr. George Colven, the Shore Attendant at St. Abbs, Pointing to the Rock (arrowed), the Highest of the Group, on Which the S.S Alfred Erlandsen Grounded In 1907
Mr. George Colven, the shore attendant at St. Abbs, pointing to the rock (arrowed), the highest of the group, on which the s.i. Alfred Erlandsen grounded in 1907-the sinking which ted to the establishment of a life-boat station at St.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
No Life-Boat There!
BY NICHOLAS MICHELL, ESQ.* (With Ittuslration.') IT was a wild and lonely shore, Girded by rocks; the sea-bird's cry, The billow's everlasting roar, The tempest, howling through the sky, The only sounds—as though Despair Sat...
Category: Poetry
Thomas, of Poole
Again, on the 15th Jan., 1869, this life- boat put off, during a W.N.W. gale, and in j a very heavy sea, to the brigantine Thomas, < of Poole, which was near Stepper Point in | imminent danger. On arriving alongside, it was found she...