LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Bounty, of Jersey
FIREMEN TO THE RESCUE WHEN the 25-foot fishing vessel Bounty of Jersey, G.I., with four men aboard, was reported in difficulties at 8.21 p.m. on 24th July, 1970,* off the Rigdon Bank in St. Ouen's Bay, Jersey, the St. Helier life-boat...
Wreck of the S.S. "Veronese."
IT was with signal pleasure that all friends of the Life-boat cause heard of the gallant and successful efforts made by the brave fishermen and boatmen of the Portuguese Life-boat Society in rescuing 200 persons from the ill-fated S.S....
Category: Articles
South-Western District Conference
A CONFERENCE of branches and guilds from seven counties in the South West of England—Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Wiltshire, Dorset, Berkshire, Oxford- shire and East Somerset—was held at Southampton on the 13th June,...
Category: Meetings
Bridlington Memorial Service
IN the last issue of The Lifeboat an account was published of the Memorial Service at Bridlington for the men who lost their lives on 10th February, 1871, when an unusually severe gale burst on the north-east coast of England, and at...
Category: Articles
Letter to the Editor
SIR - I am a life-boat enthusiast and as such I am particularly interested in boats and equipment. As there must be others like myself, would it be possible to form a R.N.L.I. Enthusiasts' Club ? May I, through this journal, ask what...
Category: Correspondence
The Late Coxswain Henry 'Downtide' West
The late Coxswain Henry 'Downtide' West.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Henry Browne & Son Ltd
The new experimental Hatch-boat built by Wm. Osborne Ltd., of Littlehampton for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution who specify Sestrel compasses.
COMPASSES Write for j/lustroted catalogue of comfjosses, post free on...
Category: Advertisement
The S.S. Wallace Rose and the Ex-Norwegian Steamer Rusk
OCTOBER 20TH. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD.
At 10.45 A.M. the S.S. Wallace Rose entered the bay flying signals for a boat and stretcher, as she had shipwrecked men on board. The life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson was...
The Life-Boat Stations of the United Kingdom
XXXVIII.—WALMER.
Centurion, 36 feet long, 9 feet 4 inches beam, 12 oars.
TOWARDS the end of the year 1856 a Life-boat was placed on this station by the Institution, in aid of which the Royal Thames Yacht...
Category: Articles