LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Claremont
BRIGHSTONE GRANGE, ISLE OF WIGHT.— The steamer Claremont, of Newcastle, was wrecked at Whale Chine, Isle of Wight, on the 27th January. Intelligence of the wreck was received at the Brighstone Grange Life-boat Station, and at about 11.40 P.M...
Diana
The ketch Diana, of Rye, bound from that port to St. Andrews with a cargo of gravel, arrived on the 13th April, but was unable to make the harbour owing to the state of the tide. The captain there- fore anchored about a mile to the north of...
Dear reader
When the general public think of RNLI volunteers, they think of crew, like me, probably a bit older, with a big thick beard!
The team at the Lifeboat asked me to introduce this issue as I have experience on the...
Category: Articles
Bridlington Memorial Service
IN the last issue of The Lifeboat an account was published of the Memorial Service at Bridlington for the men who lost their lives on 10th February, 1871, when an unusually severe gale burst on the north-east coast of England, and at...
Category: Articles
Reviews of Books
" Losses at Sea: their Causes and Means of Prevention, embracing several other subjects of importance for the Safe Navigation of Vessels." By J. H. RIDLEY, Master in the Merchant Service. London, published for the Author, 1854....
Category: Articles
Ann, of Torquay
On the night of the 23rd March the services of this valuable life-boat were again brought into requisition. During a ter- rific gale of wind from the S., and a very heavy sea, the beachmen on the look-out had observed a vessel driving with...
Groves & Guttridge Ltd
SINCE 1931 LIFE-BOATS HAVE BEEN BUILT FOR THE RNLI BY GROVES AND GUTTRIDGE EAST COWES ISLE OF WIGHT Tel: Cowes 2561 27.
Category: Advertisement
Relief Brede:
Relief Brede: RNLB Enid of Yorkshire, a 33ft Brede for the RNLI's relief fleet, after her naming in Bridlington Harbour on June 22. photograph by courtesy of Jeff Morris. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
South-Western District Conference
A CONFERENCE of branches and guilds from seven counties in the South West of England—Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Wiltshire, Dorset, Berkshire, Oxford- shire and East Somerset—was held at Southampton on the 13th June,...
Category: Meetings
Letter to the Editor
SIR - I am a life-boat enthusiast and as such I am particularly interested in boats and equipment. As there must be others like myself, would it be possible to form a R.N.L.I. Enthusiasts' Club ? May I, through this journal, ask what...
Category: Correspondence