LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Wreck Chart for 1852
WITH the present Number of the Life- Boat Journal we present our readers with a Wreck Chart of the British Isles, showing all the casualties to shipping which occurred in the seas and on the shores of the United Kingdom in the year 1852,...
Category: Charts
Perilous Play
RescUe PeRILoUs PLAY swept along by the powerfully ebbing tide, a 9-year-old girl’s survival depended on the reaction of her local lifeboat crew a powerful ebbing tide, a 9-year-old girl’s Jade Kerrison was playing with a friend at south...
Category: Articles
Arbroath Memorial
A BRONZE plaque has been erected in the storm wall of the fish quay at Arbroath harbour to commemorate the disaster in which six members of the crew of the Arbroath life-boat Robert Lindsay lost their lives on the 27th of October,...
Category: Articles
Two Action Studies of the Exmouth IRB Service Which Is Described on This Page
Two Action Studies of the Exmouth Irb Service Which Is Described On This Page. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Ronald Zeghibe on the Bridge of Hms York With Lain Leitch
Ronald Zeghibe on the bridge of HMS York with lain Leitch. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Belgian Trawler
TOW ROPE PARTED Angle, Pembrokeshire. At 11.20 p.m. on 9th January, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a Belgian trawler was towing another Belgian trawler whose engine had broken down off St. Annes Head. The tow tope...
David Acland Addresses the Annual Presentation of Awards
David Acland addresses the Annual Presentation of Awards audience for the first time in his position of Chairman of the RNLI. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Henry 'Shrimp' Davies (1)
Henry 'Shrimp' Davies Former Cromer coxswain (see right) deaths Henry 'Shrimp' Davies Henry Davies was given the nickname 'Shrimp' after his famous uncle, coxswain Henry Blogg, saw him as a tiny...
Category: Obituaries
RNLI Lifeguards move into Wales
RNLI lifeguards have been saving lives on beaches in England since 2001. This year, they make their first move into another part of the UK, patrolling 12 beaches in Wales as part of the RNLI’s aim to double its beach coverage by...
Category: Articles
Sirius
St. David's, Pembrokeshire.—On the morning of the 16th April, 1938, the local motor boat Sirius put out from Forth Clais with seventeen people on board, for a trip to Grasholme. They did not return when expected, and anxiety was felt for...