LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Myrtle
During a blinding snowstorm with the wind blow- ing a strong northerly gale, the ketch Myrtle, of Yarmouth carrying a crew of three hands was driven ashore near West Hartlepool Harbour, on the 20th February. The ketch was on a voyage from St...
The Humber Boat-House
AT Spurn Point, on the Humber, on llth July, a tablet on the Life-boat House was unveiled to the memory of the late Mr. S. Crabtree Helm, of Bradford and Ilkley, who left £2,000 to the Institution, as well as a share in the ultimate...
Category: Articles
Going Alongside from Page 123
of getting a survivor directly out of the water. How many men does it take to get one man out of the water? Jones: We picked up two men a month ago, and one of them was completely unconscious. We put the scrambling net down; two men went...
Category: Articles
Elsie
Poole, Dorset.—At four o'clock on the afternoon of the 7th of August. 1954, a report was received that three boys in a cabin cruiser in Poole harbour were waving a white sheet. At 4.5 the life-boat Thomas Kirk Wright was launched. The...
Two Rowing Dinghies
FEAR OF BEING WINCHED At i.20 p.m. on 24th July, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a rowing boat to the south of the lifeboathouse was having difficulty in the rough seas and very strong south-westerly breeze. It was...
A Speed Boat
Club safety boat rescues four An incident which took place in the Ribble Estuary on 13 August this year has earned Mr Richard Blackburn the thanks of the chief of operations after he launched the Ribble Cruising Club rescue boat to save the...
Literature of the Life-Boat: 1806-1936
SIR JOHN GUMMING, K.C.I.E., C.S.I., a vice-president of the Institution, has written an account of all books, and articles in periodicals, on life-boat work which the Institution has in its library, or which he has been able to discover...
Category: Articles
The Barry Dock Crew Building Takes a Short Cut to Its New Location
The Barry Dock crew building takes a short cut to its new location.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Ex-Coxswain William Stephenson, of Alnmouth and Boulmer
Ex-Coxswain William Stephenson, of Alnmouth and Boulmer, who died in July, at the age of seventy-six, came of a very distinguished life-boat family.
He was the fourth member of it in succession, to be coxswain, and when he...
Category: Obituaries
Dunluce
AUG. 11TH. - PORTRUSH, CO. ANTRIM.
At about 4 P.M. the second coxswain of the life-boat reported that the motor fishing boat Dunluce, of Portrush, with a crew of four on board, was in need of help off Curran...