LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Elder Dempster Steamer Jebba
At about 2.15 A.M. on the 18th March, the Elder Dempster steamer Jetiba,ot London, from Sierra Leone, with passengers, mails, and general cargo, went ashore near Bolt Tail. When the vessel stranded she ran on to the rocks close under the...
Coxswain Stephen Clayson, of Margate
Coxswain Stephen Clayson, who died in July, 1937, at the age of eighty-four, had a distinguished career. He was bowman of the Margate life-boat for over seven years and coxswain for over twenty years. During that time the life-boats rescued...
Category: Obituaries
The Lizard - West Division
The Lizard is the Southernmost point of the British mainland, a bold promontory that juts out to form a gatepost to the English Channel.
The station's Tyne class lifeboat is housed in Kilcobben Bay - the boathouse with... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Life-Boat Crossword—3
The winner of the January crossword—there was only one correct solution submitted—was: Mr. F. Ackroyd, 68 Horncastle Road, Boston, Lines. Solution to crossword was: Across: 1-Lifeboatman; 7-Banana, 8-Align, 9-Nod, 12-Emmie, 13-Parody,...
Category: Articles
Life-Preservers on Board Passenger-Ships
"WE have in different parts of this Journal pointed out the advisability that we believe exists for providing on board all vessels, and especially on board passenger-ships, some provision for decreasing the risk of life to those on...
Category: Correspondence
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
SOUTHWOLD.—We have inadvertently omitted to notice in its proper order a new life-boat, which was placed at Southwold, in Suffolk, in the autumn of 1852.
This boat was built by BEECHING and SONS, of Great Yarmouth, on the...
Category: Articles
Methods of Launching Life-Boats
Chief Inspector of Life-boats (This paper was read at the 7th International Life-boat Conference held in Lisbon in June, 1955.) Ix Great Britain and Ireland the verv varying nature of the shore creates many problems, and the methods of...
Category: Articles
A Helicopter (1)
Tynemouth, and Cullercoats, Northum- berland. At 2.10 on the afternoon of the 5th August, 1961, the life-boat Tynesider stationed at Tynemouth was launched on a routine combined exer- cise with a helicopter from No. 228 Squadron, R.A.F....
Lieut.-Col. H. W. Madoc, Isle of Man
LiEUT.-CoL. HENRY WILLIAM MADOC, C.B.E., M.V.O., who died on 7th January at the age of sixty-eight, was for twenty-three years the honorary secretary of the life-boat station at Douglas, Isle of Man. It was only in August of last year that...
Category: Obituaries
David Ogilvie
Aberdeen, Scotland. At 11.15 on the night of the 27th of October, 1959, the trawler David Ogilvie of Aberdeen was reported to have broken adrift from her moorings in the River Dee. Attempts to take her in tow were made by a pilot cutter and...