LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lifeboat Services
ON THURSDAY April 8, the honorary secretary of St Ives lifeboat station was down at the boathouse in the late afternoon when, at 1628, he saw a 16ft sailing dinghy leave harbour with two young men and two youths on...
Category: Services
Past and Present
From the pages of THE LIFEBOAT of August 1892 THE WRECK OF THE EIDER On the night of Sunday 31st January 1892 the four-masted s.s. Eider of Bremen, 4,719 tons register, bound from New York for Southampton, en route for Bremen, stranded on...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Classified
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Category: Advertisement
Sweet Home
— The schooner Sweet Some, of this port, sailed thence to Cardiff on the evening of the 15th August, but in beating out of the harbour she drove ashore at Moll Goggin's Corner.
The master and boy remained oa board to...
Run to our rescue!
Entering a race or fun run in aid of the RNLI will help our lifesavers go to the rescue and boost your health. But if you’ve never run before or have fallen out of the habit, where do you...
Category: Articles
Yachts
Ferry horror ppy endingEven experienced sailors can sometimes get caught out by unusual circumstances. Saturday 5 May was a bright, clear day, one of the first weekends this year with ideal weather for a pleasant day's...
Susilla (1)
High and dry on the Solway Firth From the shifting sand and mud banks of the Solway Firth, the grounded yacht Susiila radioed for help. It took a joint service by Workington and Silloth Lifeboats to locate the yacht and find a way to reach...
2. Dover's lifeboat Rotary Service and the Atlantic 21 on trials at Walmer found themselves busy soon after departure.
2. Dover's lifeboat Rotary Service and the Atlantic 21 on trials at Walmer found themselves busy soon after departure. The Atlantic was on service for some 15 hours and eventually spent the night in Dunkirk.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lifeboat Supporters Keep on Running! Scotland's First People's Marathon
Lifeboat supporters keep on running! Scotland's first People's Marathon was run in Edinburgh on September 5 and a third of the funds raised in the sponsorship which is to be dispersed by the organisers, the South-East Scotland Round... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Weather Charts and Storm Warnings
"STORM -warnings may be considered as the most immediate practical application of weather knowledge." Mr. EGBERT H. SCOTT, Director of the Meteorological Department, so commences the eighth chapter of the admirable work to which he...
Category: Charts