LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Cover Picture
Some years ago Campbell MacCallum took a portrait of the people of Wells lifeboat station.
The cover picture on this journal is a similar portrait taken last autumn by Peter J. R.
Stibbons of Hunstanton... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lymington: An Information Case Has Recently Been Put on the Side of the New Ilb House a Solidly Built Metal Structure With Three Opening Glazed Doors It Was Designe
Lymington: An information case has recently been put on the side of the new ILB house. A solidly built metal structure with three opening glazed doors, it was designed, constructed and erected by local 'friends of the lifeboat'. It... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Annual Press Award
In February, 1964, it was decided to award a certificate annually to the writer of what is in the Institution's opinion the best factual newspaper account of a service by a life-boat.
The Institution carefully studied...
Category: Awards
Services of Life-Boats
NEWCASTLE, DUNDRUM BAY.—On the 12th December, 1858, the French lugger Louise Amelie got embayed and was driven on shore near Newcastle in a heavy gale from S.S.E.- The life-boat belonging to the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, stationed at...
Category: Services
The S.S. Victoria
LONGHOPE, ORKNEY ISLANDS.—The s.s.
Victoria, of Sunderland, 1960 tons, bound from Hamburg for New York with a general cargo, was seen about five miles N.
of Dunnet Head Lighthouse with signals of distress,...
Angora, of Bangor & Trafalgar, of Cley
On the 24th September, 1871, while it •was blowing strongly from the S.E., and a heavy sea was running, a vessel at anchor on a lee shore, near Caister, ex- hibited signals of distress. The No. 1 Life-boat on that station, the Birmingham,...
Don, of Jersey
On the 10th November the Joseph Anstice, the Life- boat of this station, in answer to signals of distress from the schooner Don, of Jersey, put off to her assistance. A very heavy gale was blowing from the north, and darkness coming on soon...
A Fishing Boat
on 5th Jan., saved 4 men from a fishing-boat..
Life-Boat Carol Singers
LAST Christmas a number of Branches again arranged carol-singing parties, and they were even more successful than before, particularly in Sussex. East Grinstead (Sussex), which has led the way with this method of helping the Life-boat...
Category: Donations
A Diving Boat
While the watchman was on duty on the morning of the 7th April, during a W.N.W. gale, with a very heavy sea, a diving boat belonging to the Railway Company was seen to part from her moorings at 10.30 A.M. She drifted out to sea and a small...