LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Hurricane at Calcutta
DrrAJis of the late disastrous hurricane at Colj cutta show that the destruction of property was even greater than at first supposed, although, happily, fhe loss of life appears to have i e , j not so great as at first reported. Letters from...
Category: Articles
The Wreck of a Finnish Motor Ship. Thirty Lives Lost In the Orkneys
IN the early morning of 12th January, 1937, a Finnish motor ship, the Johanna Thorden, passed through the Pentland Firth, between the north of Scotland and the Orkneys, on her way from New York to Gothenburg. She had thirty- eight on board,...
Category: Services
Feature: Crew Abroad
Greek tragedy? Never could five members of the Redcar lifeboat station have imagined that their sailing holiday, 1,300 nautical miles from home, would turn into a life-saving rescue mission involving great skill and...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
CULLERCOATS.—On the 11th January, 1893, twenty-five cobles went out fishing, but as a strong N.E. gale sprung up accompanied by a rough sea they were compelled to return to port. Seventeen of them arrived safely in the harbour, but by the...
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Heptarchy
Ten saved as disabled yacht is struck by storm force winds The Lizard's Tyne class lifeboat David Robinson was at sea for more than 12 hours in atrocious conditions on 30 May 1993 when she went to the aid of a 56ft yacht in difficulties...
Casamance (2)
FEBRUARY 17TH. - HARTLEPOOL, AND SEAHAM, DURHAM, AND REDCAR, AND WHITBY, YORKSHIRE. Shortly after midnight a message came to the Hartlepool honorary secretary’s house from the coastguard that the life-boat was wanted. The honorary secretary...
(Above) Staithes Lifeboat Station Renamed Staithes and Runswick Was Re-Opened When An Atlantic 21 Ilb Named Lord Brotherton After a Former Lord Mayor of Leeds
(Above) Staithes lifeboat station, renamed Staithes and Runswick, was re-opened when an Atlantic 21 ILB named Lord Brotherton after a former Lord Mayor of Leeds was dedicated by the Reverend R. W.
Barnacle on June 17. The... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Gallant Scottish Fishermen. The Rescue of Three Bathers at Port William
ON the afternoon of 15th September, 1935, two men and a girl went bathing in the bay at Port William, Wigtown- shire, in a very heavy surf. They kept in the broken water close inshore, but they were swept off their feet by a much larger wave...
Category: Services
Mabel E Holland In the Ice During Her Four-Year Round-The-World Voyage
Mabel E. Holland in the ice during her four-year round-the-world voyage.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Three special station birthdays
Three lifeboat crews are celebrating proud RNLI histories this year, as Fowey, Fleetwood and The Lizard stations turn 150.
One remarkable rescue for Fowey came in 1865, with 13 people saved from the barque Dryden and 9...
Category: Articles