LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Merchant Vessel
Long haul for Harwich's new Severn Harwich was the first station to receive a new Severn class lifeboat (on 20 October 1996) and it was not long before the speed and endurance of the new class was put to the test.
On 12...
The Life-Boat Service In 1933
ALTHOUGH 1933 was remarkable for having one of the longest and most settled summers on record, the number of lives rescued from shipwreck round the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland was the largest for five years. It was 406. Of this total...
Category: Articles
The Prince of Wales and the Hastings Life-Boat (1)
In the background a the Life-boat House and Fishermen's Arch, on the right the Life-boat with the Crew at attention.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Maldon and District Branch Made a Collection Down the River Blackwater on Its Flag Day Last July D H Purnews Gaff Cutter Tamarisk Backed Up By Maldon Little Ship Club
Maldon and District branch made a collection down the River Blackwater on its flag day last July. D. H.PurneWs gaff cutter Tamarisk, backed up by Maldon Little Ship Club guard boat, motored down as far as St Lawrence Bay approaching all... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
POOLE.—The NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a life-boat station at the port of Poole on the coast of Dorsetshire.
As there was no life-boat establishment between Lyme Regis on that coast and the Isle of Wight, and...
Category: Articles
Rescue from French Yacht
ACTING Coxswain Eric Grandin of St. Helier, Jersey, has been accorded the Institution's thanks inscribed on vellum for the rescue of four people from the French yacht Kraken which went aground on 26th March, 1967. The St. Helier honorary...
Category: Services
Late Port Errol Life-Boat Converted Into a Yacht
Late Port Errol Life-Boat Converted Into A Yacht. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Falcon
Arklow, Co. Wicklow. At 8.55 on the evening of the 6th May, 1961, the Civic Guard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was burning flares about four miles north-east of the harbour.
There was a south-by-west gale...
The Life-Boat House
The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...
Category: Articles
The Late Coxswain Captain John Hogg Tynemouth Silver Medal
The Late Coxswain Captain John Hogg Tynemouth Silver Medal. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs