LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Surfacing alone
Without their powerless support boat, two divers found themselves alone in the North Sea ...
The crew of the Humber lifeboat had just returned from a training exercise when they received the...
Category: Articles
Longshoremen In Winter
Telling of the Winter Life ltd by tht Stout-hearted Heroes who Man our Life-boats.
By HERBERT RUSSELL.
WHEN the shrill piping of the equinoctial gales has proclaimed the coming of the long bleak months of...
Category: Articles
Barnhill (1)
BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT EASTBOURNE MARCH 20TH. - EASTBOURNE, HASTINGS, AND NEWHAVEN, SUSSEX. During the night the London steamer Barnhill, of 5,430 tons, was in the English Channel on her way from Nova Scotia to London. Two of the...
Conference and Conversazione of "Life-Boat Saturday" Workers
WITH a view to the interchange of ideas and suggestions as to the " Life-boat Saturday" movement, a conference took place in the rooms of the Society of Arts, Adelphi, on the afternoon of the 2nd May. Representatives were present...
Category: Meetings
Menelaos, of Piraeus
Less than twelve hours later the Selsey Life-boat was again called out.
During the afternoon the Crew had stood by, as there was a good deal of traffic in the Channel, and the second call came at 10.20 P.M., when news was...
Mizpah
At about 9 A.M. on the 14th February a vessel was seen riding with two anchors down, not far from a lee shore, about five miles W. of Margate. Her sprit and sails had been blown away and apparently the seas were washing completely over...
In This Issue
In this issue Institution News 2 Letters 9 Feature Advancing a great cause 10 A review of the 150 year history of the Lifeboat magazine Lifeboats in action 14 Award-winning rescues - including the first award for an RNLI lifeguard The...
Category: Contents
Leigh Hall
JAN. 1 8TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 5.18 A.M. a message was received from the Deal coastguard that flares had been seen about six miles south-east from Ramsgate.
A strong S.W. breeze was blowing, with a heavy sea and squalls of...
Daleby
DECEMBER 5-6TH. - TEESMOUTH, YORKSHIRE. AND HARTLEPOOL. DURHAM.
At 5 P.M. a message was received from the Port War Signal Statlon at South Gare, that a vessel was ashore on the North Gare a n d might have to be abandoned....
Arrow Belle
During the forenoon of the 19th January, the schooner Arrow Belle, of Aberystwith, bound from Glen- dower to Greenock, but then at anchor in the Bay of Dublin, parted from her cables and drove ashore near North Bull. A strong gale from the S...