LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Wanderer and The Nautilus
Again, on the 10th May, the fishing boats were oTertaken by a heavy sea, which sprang up very suddenly and which was felt all along the east coast of Scotland.
The boats made with all speed for the harbour. One of them, the...
The Wreck Register and Chart
ONCE more we are in a position to present to our readers a review of the casualties in shipping, the loss of life incurred, and the lives saved by the Institution in the year ending June 30th, 1912, based upon the Abstracts of Shipping...
Category: Articles
Hilda II and Betty
Scarborough, Yorkshire.—During the morning of the 24th of March, 1954, the weather worsened, making the harbour entrance dangerous. Two local fishing cobles, the Hilda II and Betty, were at sea. The life-boatmen assembled, but the Hilda II...
Helen Walker And Polly
A strong W.N.W. gale with a very heavy sea on 1st February caused great anxiety to be felt for some of the fishing boats which were at sea. About 4 P.M. a boat was seen approaching the harbour, and as it was felt that she could never weather...
Joe Martin Bem,
APRIL 1994 Joe Martin BEM, coxswain/mechanic of Hastings lifeboat from 1971 to 1987. He first joined the crew in 1950, was mechanic from 1959 to 1969 and a travelling mechanic from 1969 until his appointment as coxswain..
Category: Obituaries
Going Alongside and Survivor Recovery
WHEN A LIFEBOAT reaches a vessel in distress in gale or storm force winds she has come to the heart of her problem; how best the people on board may be brought safely to shore. Can she go alongside and take off the survivors. Or is there a...
Category: Articles
Sea Venture III and Espardarte, and Cabin Cruiser Alcidan
At 10.27 p.m. on 22nd October, 1966, news was received that the cabin cruiser Alcidan was overdue on a passage from Weymouth and that the Norwegian tanker Maakfjell had taken three men off ayacht they had taken in tow. They were eleven and a...
Launches and Lives Saved By Life-Boats and Irbs
LAUNCHES AND LIVES SAVED BY LIFE-BOATS AND IRBs 1 st March, 1971 to 31 st May, 1971: Launches 494, lives saved 227 THE ACTIVE FLEET (as at 31/5/71) 135 station life-boats 111 inshore rescue boats LIVES RESCUED 93,507 from the Institution'...
Category: Services
Cromer's Tyne Class Lifeboat Ruby and Arthur Reed Ii at the Top of Her Slipway Ready for Launching
Cromer's Tyne class lifeboat Ruby and Arthur Reed II at the top of her slipway ready for launching. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Not Forgot, the Henry, the Renown and the John Herbert
MOELFRE, ANGLESEY.—A very severe gale from the N.N.W. was experienced on the 6th and 7th November, and the Lifeboat Star of Hope put off to the assistance of five distressed vessels, and rescued their crews numbering in all seventeen men.<...