LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Courage and loss
When a well-known Scarborough man ended up in the dark surf last Winter, the community did everything they could to help him -and his memory- live on
In the early evening of Sunday 22 February,...
Category: Articles
Halfpennies and Farthings
FOR the seventh year running the Institution has received from a lady in Hampstead a gift of all the halfpennies she had collected during the year— 370.
, It has also received a three months' collection of halfpennies...
Category: Donations
Life-Boats and Anarchy
THE association between the RNLI and Russian anarchists may appear to be an unlikely one. Nevertheless, perhaps the greatest of the Russian anarchists, Prince Peter Kropotkin, was a profound admirer of the life-boat service in this country....
Category: Articles
Here and There
THE RNLI is to establish a new lifeboat station at Alderney in the Channel Islands and within the next few months a 33ft Brede class lifeboat will be sent there for an initial trial period of twelve months.
There was a...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Christmas Card and Calendar
THE life-boat Christmas card and calendar, with a reproduction in colour of the service of the Ballycotton motor life-boat to the Daunt Rock lightship, of which particulars were given in the last issue of The Life-boat, can still be obtained...
Category: Advertisement
Nora and Harold Haarfager
CLACTON-ON-SEA.—The gale of the 20th November was severely felt here, the wind blowing from the E.N.E. with a very heavy sea. At 8 o'clock in the morning the Life-boat Albert Edward was launched, a three-masted schooner, which proved to...
Halcyon, and the Barges Tintara and Portlight
NOVEMBER 12-13TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. A south-westerly gale was blowing with a rough sea, and many vessels, held up by the gale, were in danger to the windward of Southend pier. The motor lifeboat, Greater London (Civil Service No....
Buttons and Cards:
Buttons and cards: sorting through a few of the hundreds of thousands of buttons and postcards that were sent in by viewers of BBC TVs Blue Peter are one of the programme's presenters, Janet Ellis, and Duncan Chilcott of Phillips Fine... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mary and Surprise
Hastings, Sussex.—About half past six on the night of the 2nd of November, 1950, a message was received that flares had been seen about two and a half miles east of Hastings Harbour.
At 6.45 the life-boat M.T.C. was...
Phoenix, Admiral, Mary, James,and Mary Anne
THURSO, N.B.—On the evening of the 7th March, the wind blew a heavy gale here from the N.N.W. to N.W., and the harbour master and Custom House officer at Scrabster were apprehensive that if the sea got heavier as the night advanced, the...