LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
H.M. Submarine Universal (2)
FEBRUARY 4TH - 6TH. - ST. DAVID’S AND FISHGUARD, PEMBROKESHIRE, AND NEW QUAY, AND ABERYSTWYTH, CARDIGANSHIRE.
H.M. submarine Universal was on her way to the breaker’s yard. Late on the night of the 3rd of February her...
Lives Lost, 1853
The whole loss of lives during the year, as far as has been ascertained, amounts to 989.
Of these, 18 went down with the Herdd, which sunk off the Start, after collision with a schooner at night, on 10th January; 83 in the...
Category: Articles
Ilfracombe - Mersey Class Spirit of Derbyshire
llfracombe's new Mersey class lifeboat Spirit of Derbyshire on the slipway ready for her naming ceremony on 29 September 1990 (Photo Jeff Morris). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Message Was Received By the Honorary Secretary of Bembridge Lifeboat Station on Saturday July 30 to Say That An Engine Fire Now Extinguished Had Caused Compl
A message was received by the honorary secretary of Bembridge lifeboat station on Saturday, July 30, to say that an engine fire, now extinguished, had caused complete steering loss on a 48' ketch on passage from Poole to Le Havre. A... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Port Erin Experiment
THE first life-boat to be fitted with diesel engines was completed in 1936, and since 1952 diesel engines have been installed in all new life-boats. Never- theless, there are still an appreciable number of life-boats in the fleet which have...
Category: Articles
Earl of Buchan
MARCH 27TH. - EYEMOUTH, BERWICKSHIRE.
At 9.10 A.M. the coastguard telephoned that a trawler was showing signals for medical aid. A light southerly wind was blowing with a rough sea. The motor lifeboat Frank and William...
Reviews
Abandon Ship, by Vice-Admiral Gordon Campbell, V.C., D.S.O.
Hodder & Stoughton. 7s. Qd.
Heroes of British Life-boats, by Gerda Shairer and Egon Jameson. Harrap.
7s....
Category: Articles
Coxswain's Third Silver Medal
Shoals had been finally cleared the coxswain set course for Longhope. The life- boat reached Longhope pier at 6.30 and landed the survivors. She was refuelled and ready for service again at 7 o'clock.
In addition to the...
Category: Services
The S.S. Gustav Bitter (1)
POLPEAR (LIZARD) AND CADGWITH.— On the morning of the 4th March the s.s. Gustav Bitter, of Newcastle-on-Tyne while proceeding from London to the Manchester Ship Canal with a general cargo, stranded on the Callidges Rocks, off the Lizard...
Walmer Life-Boat Crew at French Embassy
THE crew of the Walmer life-boat went to London on Thursday, 27th of November, to receive the medals awarded to them by the French life-boat society, La societe centrale de sauvetage des naufrages for the rescue on the 13th of January, 1952,...
Category: Medals