LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THE memorial to the seventeen Life- boatmen of Rye Harbour—who lost their lives on 15& November, 1928, when the Life-boat, returning from service in a whole gale, capsized as she appeared to be coming into the harbour-mouth with a...

In an account of the New York Life-Saving Association, in the 19th Number of this Journal, we alluded to a metallic Life-Car, which, in conjunction with the mortar and rocket life apparatus, had been instrumental in saving a large...

Scarborough, Yorkshire. — On the morning of the 22nd of October, 1952, anxiety was felt for the safety of four local fishing cobles which were at sea in bad weather, and at 11.3 the life- boat E.C.J.R. was launched. The sea was rough, with a...

The Midnight Matinee which was planned to be held at the Victoria Palace theatre in London on March 8, and which was announced in the last number of THE LIFEBOAT had to be cancelled as a consequence of the economic outlook at the beginning...

The Flying Dutchman WHEN his 24-foot yacht Claesjenguy lost her rigging off Hastings on June 2, Mr P. W. Stoel, a Dutchman working for the BBC, had cause to be grateful for the services of three RNLI lifeboats.

Although he...

Campbeltown, Argyllshire.—At 8,17 in the evening of Christmas Day, 1948, the Southend coastguard telephoned that the S.S. Princess Margaret had reported to Portpatrick Radio that a vessel was aground on Sanda Island, and the motor life-boat...

Aith, Shetland—22nd February. Early in the morning the telephone service having failed, the volunteer-in-charge of the Board of Trade rocket lifesaving apparatus at Walls travelled ten miles to bring news from Lerwick that flares had been...

DURING the month of December last, the most successful and continuous services to the shipwrecked that had ever been recorded in the course of one month were performed by the Life-boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT...