LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Our Heroes
"Tis a terrible night, and the seas run mountains high, The wind is howling fiercely, with a dark and sullen sky; Eyes are aching and blinded with the driving sleet and rain, And thoughts turn to those who are going out, who may never...
Category: Poetry
Two Life-boatmen Cross the Atlantic
IN March, 1949, two former members of the life-boat's crew at Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, Stanley Smith, aged thirty, and Colin Smith, aged twenty-nine, sons of Coxswain S. T. Smith, went to Canada. There, at Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, they...
Category: Articles
Fantome
Selsey, Sussex.—At one o'clock on the afternoon of May 18th, 1955, the coast- guard rang up to say that a sailing boat had capsized three and a half miles south of Thorney Island, and that a helicopter was on its way to her. About 1.15 a...
The Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.
Oboerst.—Bust of Her Majesty Queen Victoria; beneath, in minute letters, "L. C. Wyon." Double legend.
" Royal National Life-boat Institution....
Category: Medals
Wreck Chart of the British Isles for the Year 1873-4
lisions.—It appears then, that the number of wrecks, casualties, and collisions from all causes on and near the coasts of the United Kingdom and in the surrounding seas, reported during the year 1873-4, was 1,803, being 401 less than the...
Category: Charts
Summary of Services in 1963
SUMMARY OF SERVICES IN 1963 Number of times life-boats called out on service Number of times inshore rescue boats called out on service Number of lives saved by life-boats Number of lives saved by inshore rescue boats Number of lives saved...
Category: Services
Mrs E Horry
August 1983 Mrs E. Horry, a president of Skegness ladies' guild since 1974 and chairman from 1961 to 1973; she had been a founder member of the guild in 1960 after serving for a number of years as a member of Skegness station branch...
Category: Obituaries
The S.S. Themsleigh
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At 2.5 early on the morning of the 2nd of No- vember 1954, the Walton-on-the-Naze coastguard rang up to say that a mes- sage from the S.S. Themsleigh, of Hull, stating that she had run aground on the Gunfleet...
Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the February and March Meetings of the Committee of Management
February Meeting.
Appledore, and Clovelly, Devon.—-Dur- ing the afternoon of the 7th August, 1937, signals were seen coming from a small motor yacht oft Westward Ho, A moderate N.N. W. breeze was blowing, with a smooth to...
Category: Services
Sea Rescue: a Bird's-Eye View By Des Lavelle
LURCHING ABOUT on the deck of Valentia lifeboat, struggling to make sense of a simple piece of chartwork, it was shattering to hear the smooth delivery of the necessary accurate information over the radio from the Nimrod aircraft overhead....
Category: Articles