LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
To H. W. JEFFERSON, Mechanic of the Hartlepool Motor Life-boat, in recognition of his intrepid conduct when the Life-boat caught fire, the Thanks of the Institution inscribed on Vellum and a monetary grant.
To REGINALD...
Category: Awards
Lucinde, of Whistable & The Rose, of Lyne
About midnight on the 10th October, the night being dark with violent squalls, the schooner Lucinde, of Whitstable, came into collision with the Base, of Lynn, whilst the two vessels were making for the harbour of...
King Ja Ja
About 6 o'clock on the morning of the 13th October, whilst a strong northerly gale was blowing, a steamer which proved to be the King Ja Ja, of Swansea, bound from Newcastle to Methil, with a cargo of steam rails, was sighted in a...
Our Life-Boats
Around our iron-bound coasts wild waters rave, High revel holds the Storm King night and day; All honour, then, to those who dare to brave The rush and fury of his deadly sway! When seething billows toss their spumy crests, Lashed into...
Category: Poetry
Life-Boat Saturday Fund
FOR the last four months the Life-boat Saturday Committees and Ladies' Auxiliaries have been busily endeavour- ing to maintain in 1902 the grand record of net receipts obtained by the Fund throughout the United Kingdom last year for the...
Category: Articles
Riddled Ventilating Pipe from the Eastbourne Lifeboat Jane Holland After Visiting Dunkirk In 1940 and (Below) Special War Artist Bryan De Grineau's Impression of the Du
Riddled ventilating pipe from the Eastbourne lifeboat Jane Holland after visiting Dunkirk in 1940, and (below) special war artist Bryan de Grineau's impression of the Dunkirk evacuation in full swing. An RNLI lifeboat is... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
And They'Re Off!
And they're off! These happy toddlers look part in a race at a fun day organised at Endcliffe Park in aid of the City of Sheffield lifeboat appeal. Crowds of more than 5,000 turned up to see, among other things, a junior fancy dress... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Pleasure Boats
C class inflatable lands 112 passengers St Ives - South West Division The St Ives C class inflatable lifeboat can lay claim to some sort of a record after she ferried no less than 112 people ashore from local pleasure boats in a single...
Brigadier-General Noel M. Lake, C.B.
BY the death last Christmas of Briga- dier-General Noel M. Lake, C.B., late of the Royal Engineers, at the age of 82, the Institution has lost a friend who for ten years gave it devoted service as a member of the Committee of Management....
Category: Obituaries
The S.S. Werner Kunstmann
At 7.30 A.M. on the 14th January the Coastguard reported that signals of distress were being made by a vessel on the Goswick Sands. The crew of the Life-boat Edward and Eliza were promptly assembled, and the boat was transported for four...