LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Use of the Lead
THE great necessity of constantly using the lead or sounding has been recognised from the earliest period in the history of navigation.
In the present day, when so many thousand vessels are engaged in carrying on the...
Category: Articles
The Unveiling of the Memorial
The unveiling of the memorial by his Excellency the Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man, Air Marshal Ian Macfadyen (pictured to the left of sculpture, at the front).
Also pictured (from left to right) is David Cretney... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain William Reuben Parr, of Blackpool, who was appointed coxswain in April, 1935. He is the third Parr in suc- cession to serve as coxswain. A Pan- has been in command of the Black- pool life-boat for...
Category: Articles
The Humber
THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE On the 12th February, 1940, the Humber life-boat rescued the crew of nine of the steam trawler Gurth, of Grimsby.
COXSWAIN ROBERT CROSS was awarded the gold medal.
MOTOR MECHANIC JOHN...
Category: Medals
The America
On the 18thNovember at 8 A.M., while a strong wind was blowing from the S., signals of distress were observed flying from a vessel which had grounded on the south side of Wexford Bar. The No. 1 Life-boat Ethel Eveleen immediately put off in...
The Shipwreck
THE crash of timbers and the rasp of rock, ; The mocking tongue of Death in frenzy wags The stricken ship—mere plaything of the Beneath its ghostly, ghastly, fleshless lip.
gale- Lies helpless, while the cruel...
Category: Poetry
The Margaret
BRANCASTER, NORFOLK.—At 3 P.M. on the 8th March, a vessel was seen striking on the Flats, and showing signals of distress.
The crew of the Lily Bird Lifeboat mustered, launched their boat as soon as possible, and proceeded...
Foreign Life-Boat Services. Rescues from British Vessels In 1936, and Numbers of the Fleets
DUEING 1936 help was given by foreign life-boat services to 45 British vessels.
Three of these services were by Belgium, 1 by Germany, 2 by Holland, 3 by Iceland, 1 by Sweden, and 35 by the United...
Category: Services
The Englishman
Sheringham, Norfolk. At 10.30 on the morning of the 13th July, 1961, the honorary secretary was told by a fisher- man who had just come ashore that the sea was becoming rough and several crab boats had not yet returned. In par- ticular...
The Madeleine
At half-past four on the morning of Sunday, the 23rd October, a coastguardman, on the look-out near the quiet little seaside town of Clacton, saw a signal rocket fired from, the Gunfleet Floating Lightship, which told of a wreck on the...