LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Oscar
BUDDON NESS, N.B.—At about 11 A.M.
on the 22nd February signal guns were fired from the Lightship, indicating that a vessel was ashore on the South Bank, or in imminent danger. The May Lifeboat proceeded to the spot as soon...
Henry Harvey
On the 25th March the Life-boat was launched at 8.40 P.M., and proceeded to the assistance of the brigantine Henry Harvey, of Hayle, bound from Runcorn for Lelant with coal, which while endeavouring to make the harbour at Penzance in a...
In the Lord Mayor's Procession
The pulling and sailing life-boat Mary Thereasa Boileau (Dungeness, 1912-39) (See page 411). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Felix
BRANCASTER, NORFOLK.—On the morning of the 18th April a vessel was observed stranded on Burnham Flats, but she suddenly disappeared. At 7 o'clock the Life-boat Lily Bird was launched in a heavy sea and a strong N.
wind,...
To Help Their Local Life-Boat Day Publicity Campaign,
To help their local life-boat day publicity campaign, Susan Gardiner, of Helensburgh, Linda Kelly, of Cardross, and Janet McMillan, of Helensburgh, volunteered to be towed about Helensburgh, Dunbartonshire, on 6th June, 1970, in an IRB. At... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Life-Preservers on Board Passenger-Ships
"WE have in different parts of this Journal pointed out the advisability that we believe exists for providing on board all vessels, and especially on board passenger-ships, some provision for decreasing the risk of life to those on...
Category: Correspondence
St Simeon
French trawler in distress AT 0401 on the morning of Friday February 15, 1985, Falmouth's 52ft Arun class lifeboat, Elizabeth Ann, left the lee of Falmouth docks heading out to sea on service at full speed. Coxswain Viv Pentecost was at...
Excellent
On the evening of the 9th October the steam drifter Excellent, of Buckie, bound to Yarmouth, with a crew of eleven, stranded outside the piers. A moderate S.S.E. gale was blowing, with a rough sea and heavy rain. The drifter began to...
"Lest We Forget." November 11th, 1891: November 11th, 1918
By the Rev. WILBERFORCE ROBINS, Honorary Secretary of the Seaton Branch.
Mr. Robins, who became the honorary secretary of the Seaton branch last year, has an association of nearly fifty years with the life-boat service....
Category: Articles