LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Wasting of the English Coast. (From the Times, 5th October, 1886)
ENGLISHMEN do not, as a rule, realise the perishable and perishing nature of the land on which they live. Although more than fifty years have now elapsed since Sir Charles Lyell collected and emphasised the evidences which showed that the...
Category: Articles
The Hull Is Turned Upright for the First Time Before Being Transported to Osborne's of Littlehampton for Fitting Out
The Hull Is Turned Upright For The First Time Before Being Transported To Osborne's of Littlehampton For Fitting Out. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Eaglet
SHOREHAM.—The fishing-smack Eaglet, belonging to Ramsgate, attempted to enter the harbour shortly before low water on the evening of the 23rd March and grounded on the bar. As the sea was breaking heavily over her, the Life-boat William...
Surfacing alone
Without their powerless support boat, two divers found themselves alone in the North Sea ...
The crew of the Humber lifeboat had just returned from a training exercise when they received the...
Category: Articles
Current affairs
Ireland’s ‘voice of the sea’ may have stepped away from the microphone – but Tom MacSweeney is as vocal as ever when it comes to marine matters
For two decades, Tom MacSweeney’s voice has been synonymous with Ireland’s...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Skandinavian (1)
RAMSGATE AND BROADSTAIRS. — At 2.30 A.M. on the 11th April, during strong N.Jf.E. wind and a heavy sea, the Goodwin and Gull Lightships fired signals.
The Ramsgate Life-boat Bradford, and the harbour steam-tug Aid, as well...
Cover Picture
COVER PICTURE Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse II has recently taken up station at Plymouth. She a 44' Waveney class 'fast afloat' lifeboat built to a design introduced from the US Coast Guard in 1964. Her twin General Motors... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Garland
YACHT TOWED IN Eastbourne, Sussex. At 3.6 p.m. on 2 ist August, 1965, a yacht was seen burning flares south of the life-boat house. The life-boat Beryl Tollemache was launched at 3.20 in a south-westerly gale and a very rough sea. The tide...
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The Scottish Life-Boat Council
THE Scottish Life-boat Council which was set up at the Conference held in Edinburgh last January, and which it was decided should meet twice a year, held its first and preliminary meeting, at which it elected its officers, in Edinburgh on...
Category: Meetings