LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Naming Ceremonies: Scotland. St. Abbs, Fraserburgh, Eyemouth and Portpatrick
FOUR new motor life-boats, two of them gifts from Scotland, were named on the Scottish coast this year, at St. Abbs, Berwickshire ; Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire; Eyemouth, Berwick- shire ; and Portpatrick, Wigtownshire.
St....
Category: Inaugurations
Night Distress Signals
' For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle ?" UNTIL the year 1873, vast as were the interests at stake, there was no recognised system of night signals to be shown by vessels in distress...
Category: Articles
September
Launches 64. Lives rescued 62.
SEPTEMBER 1ST. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.
At 5.45 A.M. the naval author-ities at Cromer asked for the life-boat to go out, as an aeroplane was in the sea between...
Category: Services
The S.S. Ribblebank
Fleetwood, Lancashire.—At 10.30 in the morning on the 10th of February, 1950, the harbour authorities reportedthat the s.s. Ribblebank, of Liverpool, was on the Lighthouse bank. Later she was reported to be loaded with 400 tons of calcium...
View of the Past:
View of the past: 'Hurry to the Rescue', a watercolour by George Owen dated 1893 and just one of the hundreds of exhibits at Sotheby's maritime exhibition Rule Britannia which runs from January 2 to 29, 1986 (closed January 6).... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Aeroplane (154)
OCTOBER 6TH. - CLACTON - ON - SEA (AT BRIGHTLINGSEA), ESSEX. A British bomber had crashed near Jaywick and the life-boat found her, bottom upwards, but there was no trace of the crew. It was learned later that three of the airmen had swum...
Award By the King of Norway to the Tynemouth Life-Boat Men
IT is very gratifying to be able to record that H.M. the King of Norway awarded a piece of silver plate to Robert Smith, the Coxswain of the Tynemouth Motor Life-boat Henry Vernon, and conferred Silver Medals and diplomas on the other...
Category: Awards
Superb
During a light northerly wind with heavy sea on the 16th March, it was reported that a fish- ing vessel between four and five miles to the north of Buckie had had her mast carried away. The crew of the Life-boat Maria Stephenson were...
The New Sheerness Isle of Sheppey 44' Waveney Lifeboat Helen Turnbull Was Named on May 18 By Mrs R D Leigh-Pemberton Wife of the Vice Lord Lieutenant of Ke
The new Sheerness, Isle ofSheppey, 44' Waveney lifeboat Helen Turnbull was named on May 18 by Mrs R. D. Leigh-Pemberton, wife of the vice Lord Lieutenant of Kent.
A legacy from the estate of James Bissell Turnbull,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs