LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Life-Boat Service In Japan
THIS excellent Service, which is now in its fifteenth year as a chartered corporation, is making strenuous efforts to increase its sphere of usefulness and to extend the scope of its operations.
Although the Society ("...
Category: Articles
Mary, of Laxey
The Life-boat Two Sisters proceeded from this port on the 22nd October, and saved the crew of the schooner Mary, of Laxey, during a strong gale from N.N.W. and a heavy sea; the service was promptly rendered in a manner highly creditable to...
Speed, of Wexford
On the 9th May, the schooner Speed, of Wexford, was observed anchored close to the rocks off this place, during a strong gale of wind and heavy sea.
The captain, fearing that his vessel would drive on the rocks, hoisted...
Hazardous Passage
FOR a service, in which he had to take his life-boat through a narrow, unchartered channel, infested with rocks, to a trawler whose bow was hard aground, Coxswain John Nicolson of Aith, Shetlands, has been awarded the R.N.L.I.'s silver...
Category: Services
The Cromer Motor Life-Boat, Out on Another Service, Is Known to Be Making for Yarmouth
The Cromer Motor Life-Boat Out On Another Service Is Known To Be Making For Yarmouth A Message Recalling Her Is Sent The Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Motor Life-Boat Puts Out With It. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Perseus Ablaze In the Channel—Walmer Life-Boat Took Off the Crew
Perseus Ablaze In The Channel—Walmer Life-Boat Took Off The Crew. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Life-Boat In Tooley Street
On board, the Mayor of Bermondsey. Pearly kings and queens collecting.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lifeboat Services
Eastern Division Explosion at sea AN EXPLOSION, on the night of November 15, 1973, aboard the 300-ton deep-sea trawler Boston Jaguar, 37 miles 020° (T) from Cromer, Norfolk, left the ship without steering gear, with her mate killed and...
Category: Services
Gluckauf
The Humber, Yorkshire. — 9th February, 1939. The German steamer Gluckauf, of Rostock, had struck the submerged wreck of the Katina Bulgaris, which had sunk the day before, but her crew were saved by the Norwegian steamer Nayland.—Permanent...
Joe Adams,
July Joe Adams, honorary life governor since 1993. Mr Adams served the Hastings lifeboat station from 1956 to 1993 in various capacities, including, honorary secretary, joint honorary secretary, deputy launching authority and chairman. He...
Category: Obituaries