LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Four Gallant Services
AT 11.30 on the morning of the 28th August, 1919, during a strong southerly gale with a very heavy sea and thick rain, the Bembridge Life-boat was launched to the help of an American steamer, the s.s. Wakvlla, of Los Angeles, which had...
Category: Services
Teymar (3)
Eleven lifeboats in biggest ever Cardigan Bay searchCrew from nine lifeboat stations were united in a search for a missing power boat at Cardigan Bay. The Coastguard coordinated an extensive search involving 11 lifeboats, a rescue helicopter...
Island Maid and Angele
On the after- noon of 12th November, two vessels, the schooner Island Maid, of Belfast, and the brigantine Angele, of Brest, while endeavouring to enter Padstow Harbour, in a strong "W.N.W. gale accompanied by a heavy sea, struck on the...
The Ship Tavern's '101 Dalmatians'
The Ship Tavern's '101 Dalmatians' float wins first place in the fancy dress float competition on Anstruther lifeboat station's 19th annual gala.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Fig 2: Forward Well Note Twin Engine Coolers Fitted Into Bilges and Also Aluminium Vent Trunks at Forward End of Well Sides Which Will Route Air from the Wing Compartm
Fig. 2: Forward well. Note twin engine coolers fitted into bilges and also aluminium vent trunks at forward end of well sides which will route air from the wing compartments through to lower part of forward end box. Benches run down each... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The First Steam Life-Boat
Built in 1890. Served until 1923. Stationed at Harwich, Holyhead and New Brighton, and again at Holyhead. - View image in PDF
Launched on service 175 times. Rescued 295 lives.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mr. S. E. Saunders, of Cowes
Mr. Samuel Edward Saunders, of Cowes, who died on 17th December, at the age of seventy-seven, was very closely associated with the building of the present motor life-boat fleet, first as head of his own firm, Messrs. S....
Category: Obituaries
Mrs. F. M. H. Coleman, M.B.E., J.P., of Clacton
MRS. FLORENCE MABEL HENRIETTA COLEJIAX, M.B.E., J.P., of Clacton, who died on the 25th of August, 1952, at the age of eighty, had been for thirty years a distinguished and most successful worker for the Life-boat...
Category: Obituaries
Granero
The Norwegian steamer Granero, of Drammen, bound with a cargo of pit-props from Finland for South Alloa, ran ashore at Crawton, twenty miles south of Aberdeen, on the evening of the 23rd October. She carried a crew of eighteen. A moderate...
Our Shingle Beaches
THOSE of our readers who have visited the watering-places and the Life-boat Stations of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION on the south and south-east coasts of England cannot but have noticed with interest the vast quantity of shingle which...
Category: Articles