LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Maria Nathali
The Duff Life-boat, stationed at this port, was launched, through a heavy surf, to the assistance of the Russian schooner Maria Nathalin, on the 2nd Feb., about noon, at which time there was a heavy snowstorm, with the gale E.S.E. The Duff...
Margaret Davis, of Girvan
On the 26th October, the smack Margaret Davis, of Girvan, was totally wrecked on a reef of boulder-stones, a short distance south of the harbour of that place, during a gale of wind. The crew expected to get her off, but the gale increas-...
Southampton Boat Show September 13 to 18 Got Away to a Good Start on the First Day With the Presentation By Shaw Taylor to Sir Alec Rose of Three Cheques: £500 From
Southampton Boat Show, September 13 to 18, got away to a good start on the first day with the presentation by Shaw Taylor to Sir Alec Rose of three cheques: £500 from Cobramold Ltd, to mark the building of the 2,000th Leisure class... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Start of Last Year's Sheffield Marathon
The start of last year's Sheffield Marathon which raised, mainly through the sponsorship of individual runners, a remarkable £24,000 for the RNLI. It is an annual event with some 6,000 entrants and Sheffield branch, together with... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Loreley
HARWICH.—-At noon on the 7th Feb., in answer to a telegram, the Springwtll Life-boat was manned and put off to the rescue of the crew of a vessel ashore on the Shipwash Sand. A strong S.S.E. wind was blowing at the time, and the sea was...
Frank Kilroy. In His Other Role As Curator of the Lytham Lifeboat Museum
Frank Kilroy. in his other role as curator of the Lytham lifeboat museum, explains to HRH The Duke of Kent about the display of artefacts from the wreck of the Mexico. - View image in PDF
Picture: Peier Owen/Creative. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Gyda
WINTERTON, NORFOLK.—The brig Gyda, of Swendsale, Norway, stranded half a mile north of this place on the 18th January. In consequence of the snowdrift it was found impossible to take the Edward BirKbeck Life-boat to the scene of the wreck on...
An Outboard Gemini Craft
St. Ives, Cornwall - At 8.17 p.m. on I3th May, 1967, it was reported that an outboard Gemini craft had left Porthmeor Cove at 2.30 and had not been sighted since. The life-boat Edgar, George, Orlando and Eva Child was launched at 8.50 in a...
An Inflatable Rescue Craft
JF.RSKY, Channel Islands, November 17, 1987: Helmsman Tony Able, on board St Catharine's C class inflatable lifeboat, towing home the States Fire Service Zodiac inflatable rescue craft which had become swamped and suffered engine failure...
A Landing Craft (2)
JANUARY 22ND. - PORTPATRICK, WIGTOWNSHIRE.
A landing craft had gone aground in Luce Bay, but the life-boat was not needed. - Rewards, £26 2s..