LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society
THE Thirty-eighth Anniversary of this valuable Society was held at the City Terminus Hotel, on Friday, the 20th April, when its old and valued Chairman, Captain the Hon. FRANCIS MAUDE, R.N., presided with unabated...
Category: Meetings
Queen of the Fleet
On the afternoon of the 13th January a ketch was seen to anchor off Southsea -Castle and close to broken water, and as she was near to the shore and possibly bumping it, the coxswain of the Life-boat Heyland was informed, the crew were...
The S.S. Orchis
30th November.
The s.s. Orchis, carrying a crew of nine, put out from Par with a cargo of china clay for Dundee and Aberdeen. She sprang a leak and began to founder, and her crew took to the ship's...
Open All Hours
Open all Hours Nearly all of the Institution's 215 lifeboat stations held a special open day during the Spring Bank Holiday Weekend, most of them opening on the Sunday, 28 May.
An estimated 65,000 people visited... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Stornoway's Arun Sir Max Aitken
Stornoway's Arun SirMaxAitken Is pictured from aboard the stranded merchant vessel Golf Star as the lifeboat stands by in worsening weather on 21 October 1995.
The Antiguan registered Golf Star was on passage from... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Commander Solling
A heavy gale •was blowing at E.S.B. on the 18th De- cember, when the Life-boat Foresters' Pride put out and saved 9 men from the brig Commander Soiling, of Grimstadt One man was saved by the rocket apparatus..
"Literature of the Life-Boat."
IN October of last year a supplement to The Life-boat was published, written by Sir John Gumming, K.C.I.E., C.S.I., a vice-president of the Institution. The supplement, under the title of " Liter- ature of the Life-boat," gave an...
Category: Articles
"Tar and Grease."
Hand over Hand Chanty.
BY CAPTAIN Q. C. A. CRAUFUKD, R.N., honorary secretary of the Dungeness life-boat station.
" The items expended on this work were tar and grease."—Honorary Secretary's...
Category: Songs
July (1)
RYE, SUSSEX. Shortly after two in the afternoon of the 5th of March, 1944, two men in the fishing boat F.E.152 were trawling in Rye Bay. They heard a burst of machine-gun fire from a Thunderbolt aeroplane, and saw the pilot bale out. The sea...
Category: Services
(Left) Some of the Survivors of Portrush Northern Ireland Raft Race
(Left) Some of the survivors of Portrush, Northern Ire/and, raft race at the finishing line. The race, paddled in cold, blustery weather on May 28 by more than 60 competitors from all over the Province, raised a fine £5,000 for the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs