LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Island fire
Baltimore’s Tyne class lifeboat Hilda Jarrett was called into action on 18 March, when a fire broke out on Cape Clear Island. Fire crews from Skibbereen were needed on the island, home to around 100 people, and in an emergency the best way...
Category: Articles
Dolly
.— On the 28th May, during a temporary lift in the prevailing fog, a schooner was observed on the Atherfield Ledge. The crew of the Life-boat Catherine Swift were summoned, and the boat proceeded to the vessel's assistance. On going...
Overheard on a Bus
THE Life-boat Service, as has often been mentioned in the Institution's appeals, costs each year threepence a head of the population of Great Britain and Ireland.
A member of the Institution's staff was recently...
Category: Articles
The First Life-Boat. The Model of the Original, Built at Tynemouth In 1789, Which Hangs In St. Hilda's Church, South Shields
The First Life-Boat The Model of the Original Built at Tynemouth In 1789 Which Hangs In St Hilda's Church South Shields. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Life-Saving By the Coastguard In 1938
IN 1938 the coastguard organization took action in 944 cases in which vessels or aircraft were either observed or reported to be in distress or to be overdue round the coasts of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. This is three times as many...
Category: Articles
Mary Tweedlie
HOLY ISLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND.—The ketch Mary Tweedlie, of Berwick, was seen running before the wind, tinder bare poles, at 3 P.M., on the 6th March, 1883, during a fearful gale of wind from N. to N.E. and a very heavy sea, the whole bar and...
The Loss of a Life-Boatman on the Mersey
FOR the past four years no Life-boatman has lost his life at sea. When it is remembered that in that time 1,507 lives have been rescued from shipwreck, and that altogether, on service and exer- cise, between 40,000 and 50,000 men were afloat...
Category: Articles
Hilda II and Betty
Scarborough, Yorkshire.—During the morning of the 24th of March, 1954, the weather worsened, making the harbour entrance dangerous. Two local fishing cobles, the Hilda II and Betty, were at sea. The life-boatmen assembled, but the Hilda II...
Mr. S. S. Jerrett, of New Brighton
MR. S. S. JERRETT, of Liverpool and New Brighton, who died on the 9th November last, at the age of seventy- four, was for over thirty years associ- ated with the Life-boat Station at New Brighton. The son of a sea-captain, he was connected...
Category: Obituaries
Obituary
With deep regret It is with deep regret that the Institution reports the death on 23 April 1992 of Cdr Ralph Swann CBE, a life vice president and former Chairman of the RNLI, at the age of 87.
Cdr Swann first joined the...
Category: Obituaries