LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Rescue from a Steamer In Dense Fog
AT 10.8 on the night of the 8th of March, 1957, the coastguard told the honorary secretary of the Campbeltown station, Mr. A. P. MacGrory, that the S.S. Gracehill, of Campbeltown, was ashore on Sanda island in thick fog and needed help....
Category: Services
The Woods of Which a Life-Boat Is Made
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 124 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 45 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to November 30th, 1935 - ... 64,350 The Woods of which a Life-boat is...
Category: Articles
The Value of a Life
The Cost of the Life-boat Service compared with the Value of the Lives Saved.
No one can calculate the full value of a life saved, or a life risked. But certain calculations can be made, and have been made, by Insurance...
Category: Articles
Five New Life-Boats Named
FIVE life-boats at stations as far apart as Sunderland and Shoreham Harbour were named during the last quarter. On the 4th of July at Sunderland a life-boat provided out of a legacy left by Miss Emily Myers was named. Mr. R. Cyril Thompson,...
Category: Inaugurations
A personal reflection from Paul Boissier
The RNLI’s Chief Executive Officer Paul Boissier is stepping down this year. Here is his take on the last decade
When Sir William Hillary founded the RNLI in 1824, he vowed that with courage, nothing is impossible. That...
Category: Articles
A Javelin Aircraft
Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. — At 10.35 on the morning of the 21 st of Octo- ber, 1954, the Barry Island coastguard reported that a message had been received from the R.A.F. No. 19 Group at Plymouth that the pilot of a Javelin aircraft,...
Pool Fisher
Capsized coaster IN THE EARLY MORNING of Tuesday November 6, 1979, Niton Radio, Isle of Wight received a mayday call from the coaster Pool Fisher: 'We are going over, position south west of St Catherine's Point'. Nothing more was...
A Barge (2)
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—3rd March, 1938. A collision some miles up the river had resulted in the sinking of a barge, but a steamer picked up one of the crew. Two others were drowned.— Rewards, £19 Is..
A Thrilling Rescue Among the Rocks
ON Saturday, 19th November last, the St. Helier life-boat took part in another midnight rescue two months after that which earned Coxswain Thomas King a Gold Medal and his crew bronze medals, last September 14th. This time the station...
Category: Services
Lines on a Gallant Rescue By a Shore-Boat
HALF a league, half a league, Half a league seaward, In a wild storm of death Sail'd the five heroes.
Onward, the Quay Brigade! Straight for the wreck they made: In a wild storm of Death Sail'd the five...
Category: Poetry