LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Newhaven Lifeboat Was Also Involved In the Rescue Caught In the Dramatic Photograph (Left)
The Newhaven lifeboat was also involved in the rescue caught in the dramatic photograph (left) from the harbour wall on 24 July, 1988.
A swimmer, visible under the lifeboat's starboard bow, is being hauled from the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Heather Pet
On the 3rd December the Foreland coastguards telephoned to the honorary secretary that they were watching a steamer which was trying to tow a smaller motor vessel into Spithead. The tow- rope had parted twice. Later they tele- phoned again,...
The S.S. Sir James (1)
Girvan, and Troon, Ayrshire.—At 6.48 on the evening of the 5th of May, 1954, the Portpatrick coastguard telephoned the Girvan life-boat station that the S.S. Sir James, of Cardiff, was drifting ashore between Heads of Ayr and Turnberry...
No Simple Save
Injured and stranded on rocks at the bottom of a sheer cliff: for two fishermen there seemed to be no route to safety. But RNLI lifeguards and lifeboat crew found one …
Thursday 6 August 2009 was more than a typical busy...
Category: Articles
Prize Winning Essay
Miss BRIDGET MCHALE, of West Nor- folk and King's Lynn High School for Girls, King's Lynn, won the first prize in the competition for the best essay on the Life-boat Service organised by the Institution.
Other...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Day In London. The Prince of Wales's Tour of the Depots
LAST year the Prince of Wales, as President of the Institution, issued a special appeal through the Press, for a generous response. This year he took a still more intimate part in the Day by visiting a number of depots, and personally...
Category: Articles
Henry Blogg, G.C., B.E.M., of Cromer
HENRY GEORGE BLOGG, coxswain of the Cromer life-boat, retired at the end of last September, at the age of 71, after serving for over fifty-three years as a life-boatman. His record is unequalled in the 124 years of the Life-boat Service and...
Category: Articles
An Aeroplane (30)
J UNE 3 RD. - BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT. It had been reported that two of the crew of three of an aeroplane had left their machine by parachute, three miles south of the watch-house, but a piece of parachute was all that could be found. News...
Notes of the Quarter
AT the Institution's annual general meeting, which was held on the 6th April, some remarkable facts about the year 1964 were given in the Chairman's report.
The year was in many respects an exceptional one. There...
Category: Articles
Moss Bay
Barrow, Lancashire; and Workington, Cumberland.—At three o'clock on the afternoon of the 18th of April, 1953, the YValney Island coastguard rang up the Barrow life-boat station to say that the steam hopper Moss Bay, of Workington, bound...