LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
(Right) Lifeboats from the Relief Fleet Visit a Large Number of Stations and Are Often Involved In Services Which Earn Awards
(right) Lifeboats from the Relief Fleet visit a large number of stations and are often involved in services which earn awards for the lifeboat crews. The Arun class Margaret Russell Fraser was at Yarmouth on relief duty when coxswain Dave... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Horse Before the Cart
Derek Hallworth, industrial organiser for the north is pictured aboard one of the touring drays, ready for the worst the seaside weather can throw at him! (Photo Paul Francis Photography). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Adur II, of Liverpool
AUGUST 10TH. - CLOVELLY, AND APPLEDORE, DEVON. At three in the afternoon the Hartland Point coastguard telephoned to the Clovelly life-boat station that a small tug had foundered a mile northwest of the point. A moderate north-west breeze...
Resolutions Passed at the Annual Meeting for 1877
HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, P.O., D.C.L., IN THE CHAIR.
1.—Moved by the CHAIRMAN :— 1.—That the following Noblemen and Gentlemen be the Officers of the Institution for the current year:—(vide next page for this...
Category: Meetings
Vixen
About 1 A.M.
on the 9th March the schooner Vixen of Fowey was wrecked on the beach about two and a half miles to the north of Palling. She was laden with burnt ore and was bound from London to the Tyne. The crew consisted...
The Danish Brigantine Freia, of Konigsberg
on 21st Dec., saved 6 men from the Danish brigantine Freia, of Konigsberg..
Life-Boat Essay Competition In the Potteries
THIS year the Potteries were again very successful in the life-boat essay competition for elementary schools.
They won five prizes in the inter-school competition in the Midlands. One of these five prizes was presented by...
Category: Articles
Lovely Nelly, of Seaham
Ott the 1st January, 1861, the brig Lovely Netty, of Seaham, was driven ashore on Whitley Sands, two miles from Cullercoats, and three miles north of the Tyne. A strong gale was blowing from E.S.E., with a heavy sea and showers of snow and...
The Last Engagement on May 10 Was In Scotland;
The last engagement on May 10 was in Scotland; a musical soiree at Blair Castle, the home of the Duke of Atholl, chairman of the Institution.
The Duke of Kent is seen here with the Duke of Atholl and (1) the late Guy... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Empire Gatehouse, Formerly Jutland
DECEMBER 28TH. - ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK.
At 11.13 in the morning, the coastguard reported that North Foreland Radio had received an SOS call from the S.S.
Empire Gatehouse, formerly the German steamer Jutland....