LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Marguerite T.
St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—At 10.31 on the night of the 21st of August, 1951, the signal station made a report.
The yacht Marguerite T., of Lowestoft, had wirelessed that she had broken down and was in a dangerous position...
Lives Lost
Thirteen life-boatmen lost their lives at sea or died on their return. Three of the thirteen were killed by the enemy. One of the three was killed in the lifeboat of St. Peter Port, Guernsey, when she was attacked by a German aeroplane; The...
Category: Articles
St.Ives, Cornwall - South Division
(left) St Ives harbour nestles in shelter of St Ives Head, known locally as The Island', protected from westerly winds but open through from the north to the The lifeboat station (right) is at base of the small pier on the shoreward side... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Handing Over Ceremony:
Handing over ceremony: Caterham and District branch handed over a 15ft 6in D class inflatable lifeboat to Newhaven lifeboat station at Timber Hill recreation ground, Caterham on Saturday December 29, 1984. The lifeboat was funded out of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Book Reviews
Mr. Michael Elder has succeeded admirably in his task of presenting anew a number of the great rescues carried out by men of the life-boat service. These are contained in For Those in Peril (John Murray, 18s.).
Most of the...
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Rosebud
ST. ANDREW'S.—At about 9 o'clock on the morning of the 2nd February, the schooner Eosebud, of Goole, was seen from St. Andrew's, but the weather becoming thick she was lost sight of. She 'was next observed at about 11...
The Sunderland Life-Boat Platform. By A. W. Lewis, The Consulting Engineer of the Institution
Ix common with Their Majesties the King and Queen, and other members of the Royal Family, H.R.H. the Duke of Connaught has always been a warm sympathiser with the work of the Institution, and, in the midst of many national duties, he has...
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Reiger
DECEMBER 2ND. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL.
At 6.15 in the morning the coastguard reported that a vessel three miles south-east of St. Ives Head had signalled that she was sinking. A moderate north-west wind was blowing, with a...
When the London Steamer Barnhill Was Attacked from the Air Off Beachy Head and Set on Fire on March 20 1940 the Eastbourne Lifeboat Went to Her Help and Put Two
When the London steamer Barnhill was attacked from the air off Beachy Head and set on fire on March 20, 1940, the Eastbourne lifeboat went to her help and put two of her crew aboard to rescue the si'earner''s master who had been... - View image in PDF
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Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 5th July, 1855. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspondence and the Wreck and Reward...
Category: Committee