LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Letters
Whitby pulling lifeboat The photograph of Whitby pulling lifeboat Robert and Ellen Robson published in the autumn issue of THE LIFEBOAT made me wonder whether she was the one that started my interest in the lifeboat service in 1919.
Category: Correspondence
Lasting Legacies
The RNLI was left two extraordinarily generous gifts in Wills – £1M each – over the Winter.
Hugh and Molly Brown from Kinghorn (pictured) were longtime supporters of the RNLI. Their friend Charles Ritchie said: ‘Hugh...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Leelite
On the morning of the 28th of November the s.s. Leelite, of Aberdeen, left the harbour intending to go to sea, but as there was a very heavy sea on the bar, the Cox- swain of the Life-boat was on the look out, as he was apprehensive of the...
Prizes Galore at the Mermaid Ball
This masterpiece of chocolate confectionery floating on a sea of blue icing and donated by Thorntons, was just one of many prizes in a 'short odds' raffle held during the 1989 Lifeboat and Mermaid Ball which was held at the London... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Pilot Me, Success, Provider A and Lead Us
Whitby, Yorkshire.—On the afternoon of the 30th of December, 1955, it was reported that four local fishing boats were still at sea. Conditions at the harbour bar were dangerous, and at 1.54 the no. 1 life-boat Mary Ann Hepworih was launched....
Campbeltown's Lifeboat Named
Campbeltown's new Severn class lifeboat was named Ernest and Mary Shaw by donor, Mrs Mary Shaw, at a naming ceremony at The Old Quay in Campbeltown on 28 August.
The lifeboat was provided by a generous gift from the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Man the Life-Boat. (From the New York Sailors' Magazine and Seamen's Friend)
IB it worth while to work for others ? Is it worth something to save life ? As the day broke, one fearfully stormy morning, a large barque ran on a bank of sand, eight miles from the British coast, and lay there at the mercy of the tempest,...
Category: Articles
The Belgian Yacht Haura (1)
Lifeboatmen transferred to Belgian yacht in gale and heavy seas A joint service by Southwold's Atlantic 21 class lifeboat Quiver and Lowestoft's Tyne Spirit of Lowestoft has won two lifeboatmen framed letters of thanks from the...
Life-Boat Service Boards to Be Hung In a Church
THE Life-boat Station at Pakefield, in Suffolk, which was established in 1840, was closed last year, and the Service Boards which hung in the Boat-house will find a permanent and honoured place in Pakefield Church, where a special service...
Category: Articles
S.S. British Dragoon
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 7.18 on the night of the 1st of March, 1951, the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board tele- phoned that the S.S. British Dragoon, of London, a tanker of 9,909 tons, was ashore on Taylors Spit in the Queens Channel. At...