LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Italian Government's Thanks. Services By the Torbay and Hope Cove Life-Boats
ON the night of February 15th of last year an Italian steamer, the Liberta, of Genoa, on her way to Rotterdam, went ashore among the rocks at Bolt Head near Salcombe in Devon. Shortly after midnight the news of the wreck was received at the...
Category: Services
Dixy Porr
Stornoway, Hebrides. At 1.30 on the -afternoon of the 1st of September, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a vessel was stranded near the Shiant Isles. The life-boat James and Margaret Boyd put out at 1.50 in a calm...
The Crew
Lerwick lifeboatmen lead Viking fire festival Longships are so old fashioned. The 21 st century Viking's transport-of-choice is a Severn class lifeboat.
Or so Lerwick crew members Bruce Leask (left) and John Sinclair...
Category: Articles
May Queen
Courdon, Kincardinesbire. — In the afternoon of the 18th November, 1938, a sudden south gale sprang up, with a rough sea and heavy rain. A boat which came in reported that the small local fishing yawl May Queen, with a crew of three, was...
The Motor Boats Peggy II and Sheila
NOVEMBER 18TH . - FILEY, YORK-SHIRE During the afternoon two local motor boats were reported overdue, and at 5 P.M. the motor life-boat The Cuttle was launched to search for them . A light westerly wind was blowing, with a moderate swell....
Deputy Second Coxswain David Cox
Deputy Second Coxswain David Cox. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Fortieth Anniversary of the Service to the "Eider."
ON the night of Sunday, the 31st Janu- ary, 1892, the four-masted steamer Eider, of Bremen, of 4,719 tons, the Norddeutscher Lloyd, stranded on the reef of rocks in the Isle of Wight, known as Atherfield Ledge. There was a thick fog, the...
Category: Articles
Fishing Boats including The Easter Morn
FEBRUARY 23RD. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE. The records of the life-boat service are full of stories of gallantry, but it is nearly always gallantry of coxswains and crews working together. The opportunities for personal gallantry by single men are...