LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Life-Boat Station
THE following brief description and diagrams illustrative of a complete Life-boat Establishment, {Deluding the House for the protection of the boat, will serve to convoy an idea of the general character of one of the 308 Life-boat Stations...
Category: Articles
Prince Ivanhoe Holed and Aground Off Horton Beach With the Mumbles 47Ft Watson Lifeboat Alongside Photograph By Courtesy of 'Western Mail and Echo'
Prince Ivanhoe holed and aground off Horton beach with The Mumbles 47ft Watson lifeboat alongside. photograph by courtesy of 'Western Mail and Echo'. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
In Pursuit of a Yacht
A STRONG south-westerly gale was blowing on the Sussex coast on the morning of Sunday, the 8th of August. The sea was very rough and there was a heavy swell.
Just after half past eight the coastguard at Shoreham Harbour saw...
Category: Services
Right - Brian Miles Hands Over the Controls at the End of the Year.
Right - Brian Miles hands over the controls at the end of the year.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
William, of Liverpool
On the 24th July, at 8 P.M., a flat was seen to drive into broken water on the Barnard Wharf Sand, off Fleetwood. The Fleetwood life-boat proceeded at once to her aid ; she proved to be the William, of Liverpool, coal...
The Admiralty Dredger St. Giles
Scarborough, Yorkshire. At eight o'clock on the morning of the llth of August, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Ad- miralty dredger St. Giles was bound for Scarborough with a seriously injured man on board...
The Prince's Appeal to Shipping. The First Response: Gift of Three Motor Life-Boats
FOUR of the leading shipping companies have responded to the appeal on behalf of the Life-boat Service which the Prince of Wales made to shipping in his presidential address at the Annual Meeting of the Institution last...
Category: Articles
The Four-Masted Schooner Reform
On the morning of the 16th March a four-masted schooner, the Reform, of Stavanger, bound from Bankok for Greenock with teak wood, was sighted off Burr Point flying signals denoting that she was sinking. The crew of the Lifeboat were summoned...
The Finnish Motor Vessel Johanna Thorden
Longhope, Orkneys, Wick, and Thurso, Caithness-shire.—Early on the morning of the 12th January the Finnish motor vessel Johanna Thorden strucka rock in the Pentland Firth. She had thirty-eight persons, including women and children, on board,...
The Finnish Motor Vessel Johanna Thorden (1)
Longhope, Orkneys, Wick, and Thurso, Caithness-shire.—Early on the morning of the 12th January the Finnish motor vessel Johanna Thorden strucka rock in the Pentland Firth. She had thirty-eight persons, including women and children, on board,...