LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Fal
On the 2nd October signal guns were fired by the Gull light-vessel, while a moderate gale was blowing from W.S.W.
with a very heavy sea. The Life-boat was launched at about 5.40 A.M. and found the s.s. Fal, of Falmouth,...
Mrs Elsie Farr
Mrs Elsie Farr. honorary life president of the Lifeboat Enthusiasts' Society and widow of Grahame Farr. Mr Farr was honorary archivist of the LBES and after his death she took over the task of providing information from the archives and...
Category: Obituaries
Henry Browne & Son Ltd
COMPASSES AND NAVIGATIONAL EQUIPMENT TO THE R.N.L.I.
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Category: Advertisement
The Pull Of The Lifeboat
The pull of the lifeboat Hannah Chittock tells how she came to join the RnLi ‘family’ When my husband Jon was a child, he and his friends would peer through the window of the old RnLi station in Lymington for a glimpse of the lifeboat and,...
Category: Articles
The 52Ft Arun Lifeboat Richard Evans
The 52ft Arun lifeboat Richard Evans at her naming. In background. Galway's 52ft Burnett lifeboat Frank Spiller Locke. photographs by courtesy of Colin Watson. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Premuda (2)
JANUARY 16TH. - MARGATE, RAMSGATE.
AND WALMER. KENT. At 9.30 P.M. a message was received at Margate from the Margate coastguard that an Italian steamer was sinking close to the North Goodwin Light-vessel. A strong N.E. wind...
Barbadian
On the 6th December intelligence was received at Wexford that a large vessel was stranded on the Blackwater Bank.
The weather was very thick at the time, with a strong wind and heavy sea. The Wexford large life-boat at...
Our Sailors
THE tide is full, the wind is fair, The hour is striking now, And word goes round, with hearty cheer, "Up anchor to the bow." The capstan creaks as bars are manned By sailors stout and true; The captain smiles as from the strand...
Category: Poetry
Gifts from Crews
THE Institution has received the following gifts from its Crews : — On 23rd July, 1925, the Life-boat at Boulmer, Northumberland, went out to the s.s. Sojourner, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, which had gone ashore in a dense...
Category: Donations
The Converted Ship's Life-Boat Joybell
Five men left St.
Helier on the 31st March, in a converted ship's life-boat named Joybell, on a pleasure fishing trip to Les Minquiers.
They did not return when expected and some anxiety was felt. Next...