LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Ever wondered what happens behind the scenes in the minutes before the rescues described in this magazine? Here’s the answer

Just imagine – it’s night. The wind is howling outside but you are...

MONTROSE. — The No. 1. Life-boat, Mincing Lane, put off, and, with considerable difficulty, rescued the crew of 6 men from the schooner Bellalie, of Nantes, which had parted from her anchors, and had gone ashore off Montrose during strong...

SWANSEA.—On the 8th January, at about 5.30 A.M. the Life-boat Wolverhampton saved the crew of 10 men from the barque Sarah Ann, of Sunderland, which had sunk in Swansea Bay during a gale from E.S.E. She was on a voyage from Swansea to Monte...

BRIGHSTONE GRANGE, ISLE of WIGHT.

— On the 9th February, the barque Alpheus Marshall, of Digby, N.S., bound from New York to London, with a general cargo, went ashore on Atherfield Ledge during a fog. The wind was blowing...

ST. ANDREW'S, N.B.—On the 24lh October, during a N.E. gale and a heavy sea, the schooner Louise, of Frederickstadt, bound thence to Newcastle with barrel staves, drovd ashore on the West Sands and became a total wreck. The Ladies'...

THE Life-boat Calendar for 1932 is now ready. It has on it a reproduction in colours of a painting which Mr.

Charles Dixon, R.I., has very kindly done for the Institution called " At the Height of the Storm." It...

The Life-boat "Robert and Catherine," late of Appledore, now of the Reserve Fleet at Poplar, in the Lord Mayor's Show of the 9th November, 1928, with Coxswain W. T. Hammond and members of the Walton-on-Naze Crew on... - View image in PDF

The Humber, Yorkshire.—29th April.

A steamer reported by wireless that she had been in collision with the Bull lightvessel, but the life-boat found that the light-vessel did not need help.— Permanent paid crew..