LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Two Fine Services
Plymouth.
ON the 3rd October the Plymouth Life- boat was launched shortly before 10 P.M., in a strong southerly gale, with heavy rain and a very heavy sea, to the help of a vessel which had been driven ashore on the eastern...
Category: Services
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
STAITHES.—A sudden gale of wind from E.S.E. arose on the morning of the 14th March, 1896, and a heavy sea sprung up, endangering the safety of the fishing- cobles, which had proceeded to sea at daybreak. The Life-boat Jonathan Stott put off...
Category: Services
A Life-Boat Song
'Tis a stormy night, and the wild winds roar, The waves roll mountains high, And the Life-boat crew are called to the shore, For a ship to the rocks in nigh.
Not a moment waver our heroes bold, As their boat they...
Category: Poetry
Above: Some of the 80 Guests Arriving
Above: Some of the 80 guests arriving for the gala performance of 'The Merry Widow' at Holland Park in Kensington on 27 June 2001.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Dutch Medina Lifeboat Koningin Beatrix (Below) Which Visited Poole In Early June Demonstrates the Exceptional Manoeuvrability of Her Jet Propulsion Off the Shingle Bank
The Dutch Medina lifeboat Koningin Beatrix (below), which visited Poole in early June, demonstrates the exceptional manoeuvrability of her jet propulsion off the Shingle Bank.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Araxian
Man overboard A large crowd gathered at Filey on 2 July 2001 for the naming ceremony of the station's new D class lifeboat Rotary District 1120. They got rather more than they expected, however, when a full-scale rescue took place in...
A Single-Handed Rescue By a Skye Fisherman
THE Institution has awarded its bronze medal for gallantry to Mr. Kenneth Macleod, a fisherman of Pooltiel, Isle of Skye, for rescuing single-handed in a small rowing boat three fishermen whose boat had been wrecked. On the afternoon of the...
Category: Awards
The Record Month by Month
The Record Month by Month 1946 Vessels Lives Number Lives which Lives Rescued of Rescued Life-boats Rescued by Life-boat by Saved or by Auxiliary Launches Life-boats Helped Shore boats Rescue to Save Boats January . 51 103 4 15 - February . ...
Category: Annual Reports
Fund Raising at Sporting Events By Peter Holness
A WAY of raising funds is to hold collections at sporting events, such as professional football matches, race meetings and dog track meetings, all of which attract large gates. Four London football clubs were helpful in 1970 and each allowed...
Category: Articles
Winter and War
EVEN if there had been no war the winter of 1939 to 1940 would have been one to try the endurance of the life-boat crews to the utmost. To the gales and high seas was added a cold so severe and so prolonged as scarcely to have been known...
Category: Articles