LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

NEWHAVEN.—On the 3rd January last, a dismasted vessel having been seen off the harbour, the Life-boat Michael Henry pro- ceeded out to her. The wind was blowing moderately from W.S.W. and a heavy sea was running. On arriving at the vessel it...

Above - Commandant Dheret draws the winning ticket assisted by Julia Fish, Beckie Rose and Stephen Warner, Brittany Femes General Manager. - View image in PDF

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SOUTHEND (ESSEX).—A telegram having been received from Lloyd's Station at the pierhead stating that a schooner was ashore on the Nore Sand with signals of distress flying, while a strong gale was blowing from N.N.E., accompanied by a...

LOSSIEMOUTH.—On the 1st January, 1861 the sloop Thomas and Jane, of Dundee carried away her main boom, and having nearly four feet of water in her hold, and the master and crew being quite exhausted hoisted a signal of distress, which was...

Photographs are very much part and parcel of THE LIFEBOAT of today - but in Victorian times matters were very different. Barry Cox, the RNLFs Honorary Librarian, on loan from the National Westminster Bank, looks back at the very early...

A Life-Boat Standing By The Saale Off Eastbourne On 7th February 1967. - View image in PDF

APRIL 6TH - 7TH. - CLACTON, ESSEX. At 12.55 in the afternoon the coastguard reported that a barge was showing signals of distress about five miles off Clacton, and the Clacton motor life-boat Edward Z. Dresden was launched at 1.15. A...

The requisite qualities of a life-boatman's life-belt are— 1. Sufficient extra buoyancy to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, and to enable him to support another person besides...