LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Heroines
Recently, people of all ages remembered the bravery of a lifesaver who battled fierce seas in a little rowing boat to carry out a rescue 175 years ago. This was no archetypal Victorian coxswain, but a lighthousekeeper’s...
Category: Articles
A Dinghy
Overdue LATE ON THE EVENING of Thursday June 14, 1979, Fife Police informed Forth Coastguard that a flashing light was being investigated in Largo Bay and that a 9ft dinghy with three anglers on board had been reported...
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have specialised in Binoculars and Telescopes, and the instruments which we manufacture in our Glasgow factory are...
Category: Advertisement
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
BUTTON, LINCOLNSHIRE. — A message by telephone was received on the 21st May, 1898, stating that a steamer was aground about two hundred yards south of Huttoft. The Life-boat Sir John was launched at 12.45 p.m., and found the vessel was the...
Category: Services
The Problem of Launching at St. Ives
The first St. Ives life-boat was built locally and was stationed there in 1840.
In 1860 she was replaced by a pulling and sailing life-boat of the self-righting type built by the Institution, and up to 1933 the life-boats...
Category: Articles
Improved Liquid Boat Compass and Binnacle of the National Life-Boat Institution
IN a former Number of this Journal we published a description, with illustrations, of this valuable little instrument. Subsequently, in 1867, the Committee of the Institution presented to J. MACGREGOR, Esq., the founder of the " Canoe...
Category: Articles
Girvan - Scotland Division
Flanked by gardens and pathways, a sheltered and colourful harbour at the mouth of the winding water of Girvan is the base of a fishing fleet. The harbour is also home to Girvan sailing club and boats can be hired by sea... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lives and Yacht Saved
COXSWAIN JOHN Fox and the young crew of the Shoreham life-boat have been awarded a framed letter of thanks, signed by the Chairman of the Institution, Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E., K.C.B., D.S.O., for the rescue of two people from a...
Category: Services
Your Letters
Far and wide I thought you might be interested in the enclosed photograph which was sent to me by a friend who lives in Edmondton, Canada.
She and her husband were driving along a highway when she spotted an RNLI...
Category: Correspondence
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APRIL 1ST. - PORT ASKAIG, HEBRIDES.
At 12.30 in the afternoon the Kilchoman coastguard reported distress signals between Islay and Colonsay. A strong southeast breeze was blowing, with a heavy swell.
The...