LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
United States Life-Saving Service
AT the close of the fiscal year which ended on the 30th June, 1903, there were embraced in the Life-saving Service of the United States no less than 273 stations, 196 of which were established on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, 60. on the...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Service Boards to Be Hung In a Church
THE Life-boat Station at Pakefield, in Suffolk, which was established in 1840, was closed last year, and the Service Boards which hung in the Boat-house will find a permanent and honoured place in Pakefield Church, where a special service...
Category: Articles
Wineglass 287, St. George
Beaumaris, Anglesey - At 2.37 p.m. on nth August, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that as a result of a freak storm a number of craft participating in the Conway yacht club regatta required...
Lifeboat Services
South East Division Trawler saved in violent storm THROUGHOUT THURSDAY DECEMBER 26, 1985, Boxing Day, the weather on the east Kent coast had been rapidly deteriorating; by late afternoon winds from the north east were reaching strong gale...
Category: Services
The New Seaham Life-Boat, the George Elmy
A 35-feet 6-inches Liverpool boat. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Marine Print
HISTORICAL EVENTS IN TIME EXCLUSIVE OFFER TO ALL OUR READERS A series of seven artist signed and numbered tine art prints vith embossed stamp of approval and authenticity certificates.
LIMITED TO ONLY 200 IMPRESSIONS EACH...
Category: Advertisement
Heart and home
Behind the scenes, a lifeboat station mechanic must be both meticulous and creative to keep the service running – and his fellows safe
Mark Blatcher is poring over wiring diagrams. He’s trying...
Category: Articles
A Dinghy (1)
DIFFICULT RESCUE FROM ROCK THE Pwllheli life-boat and the Abersoch ILB, stationed on the Caernarvonshire coast, answered a call on 25th June, 1972, when two men in a motor boat were reported overdue.
The search started when...
A Life-Boat Film In Australia
IN the Yarmouth Mercury on 5th March last, under the heading " Yarmouth and Gorleston Motor Life-boat's Fame in Australia," a letter was published "which had been received by a Gorleston man from his son in Australia. He...
Category: Articles
Longhope and Lyme Regis Accident Inquiries
THE LOSS of the whole crew of eight of the Longhope life-boat, which capsized on the evening of 17th March, 1969, was reported in the June number of THE LIFE-BOAT. When the June number went to press the circumstances attending the disaster...
Category: Articles