LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
In This Issue.
News and Views The latest news from and about the RNLI Lifeboat Services Rescues from around the country including award winning rescues The Annual Meetings 2000 14 The Chairman reports on another very successful year plus awards to crews...
Category: Contents
The S.S. Knud
ROBIN HOOD'S BAY, YORKSHIRE. — While a moderate gale was blowing from the E. accompanied by a rough sea, thick weather and rain, on the 2nd January, the s.s. Knud, of Copenhagen, bound from Ghent for Middlesbrough, in ballast, stranded...
Crystal, of Dieppe
Exmouth, Devon.—The motor life-boat Catherine Harriet Eaton was launched at 4.52 P.M. on the 15th November, as the coastguard had reported that a trawler, at anchor one mile off West Bay, was in need of help. She had asked for a tug earlier...
Sir William Arnold Guernsey's New 52' Arun Lifeboat Was Named By Hrh the Duchess of Kent at St.Peter Port on May 23; It Was the First Visit Made By the Duchess To
Sir William Arnold, Guernsey's new 52' Arun lifeboat, was named by HRH the Duchess of Kent at St Peter Port on May 23; it was the first visit made by the Duchess to Guernsey—on a day of sun and showers she was warmly welcomed by the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Glenside
The No. 1 Life- boat Covent Garden was launched at 6 A.M.
during thick weather on the 13th January to the assistance of the S.S. Glenside, of Newcastle, which had stranded on the Barber Sands, opposite the Life-boat station...
The Life-Boat Station
THE following brief description and diagrams illustrative of a complete Life-boat Establishment, including the House for the protection of the boat, will serve to convey an idea of the general character of one of the 282 Life-boat Stations...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat Station
THE following brief description and diagrams illustrative of a complete Life-boat Establishment, including the House for the protection of the boat, will serve to convey an idea of the general character of one of the 286 Life-boat Stations...
Category: Articles
The Queen's Fort
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 12.15 in the afternoon of the 7th of May, 1948, the Admiralty Salvage Officer tele- phoned that a man on the Queen's Fort, in the river Mersey, had been seriously injured. He asked for the life-boat and a...
William, of Tonsberg
On the 27th of December, the Norwegian bark, William, of Tonsberg, ran ashore in thick and squally weather, near Camber, about three miles on the north side of Eye Harbour. The life-boat at No. 31 Tower, on the .opposite side of the harbour,...
Killin, of Greenock
CATSTER, NEAR GREAT YARMOUTH.—At P.M. on the 19th March, the lights of a vessel, supposed to be on the Barber Sand,were observed from this station, and the No. 2 Life-boat, the Godsend, proceeded to her assistance. A snowstorm from the N....