LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Chairman's New Year Message
New Year Message from the Chairman, Commander F. R. H. Swann, QBE, RNVR...
0 One hundred and fifty years ago Sir William Hillary laid down six rules for his new Society of which the first and most important was the...
Category: Articles
Belgian Motor Life-Boats
IN The Lifeboat for November, 1925, we published an article on the Life- boat Service of Belgium. At that time there were on the thirty-five miles of the Belgian coast ten Life-saving Posts, each provided with a Pulling Life-boat and Rocket...
Category: Articles
A Magnificent Model of a Galleon Made By Mr G Ritchie
A magnificent model of a galleon, made by Mr G. Ritchie of Whitehills, Banffshire, was the star prize in a raffle run during a coffee morning organised by the local ladies guild. The raffle raised £405 and here Mr Ritchie draws the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Gallant Attempt
ON November 19th, 1947, an easterly gale was blowing at Broadstairs, and about mid-day three boys, on their way home from school, went on the pier to watch the breaking seas. One of them was seen standing by himself on the steps at the head...
Category: Articles
Gifts from Crews
On the 17th May, 1928, the Ramsgate Motor Life-boat saved the schooner Isabella, of Barrow, which was in distress in a moderate northerly gale, and rescued her crew of four men. Out of the salvage money received, the Life-boat Crew have made...
Category: Donations
January (1)
JANUARY MEETING LITTLEHAMPTON, SUSSEX. Three boats were out fishing on the 11th November, 1939, off Littlehampton, when the engine of one, the Margaret, broke down. Another boat, the Duchess of York, promised to tow her in after she had set...
Category: Services
Life-Boat Services
BERWICK-ON-TWEED.—On the 2nd of September a strong gale and heavy sea having sprung up, two large herring-boats, in attempting to get into Berwick Harbour, got to leeward of it, and went on shore. A steam-tug proceeded to their assistance,...
Category: Services
Operation Lifeboat: All Over the Country Scouts Have Been at Work—180 Greenock District Scouts Raised £250 By a Sponsored Woodcut
'Operation Lifeboat': all over the country Scouts have been at work—180 Greenock District Scouts raised £250 by a sponsored woodcut.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Firefly
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At 11.15 on the morning of the 3rd of September, 1952, during bad weather, the coast- guard telephoned that a yacht with a man and woman on board, had an- chored a quarter of a mile north-east of the pier in a...
A Fishing Coble and Ayton Castle
NORTH SUNDERLAND and HOLY ISLAND.
—On the morning of the 27th January, five fishermen put off in a coble from North Sunderland, for the purpose of shooting wild ducks on the Fame Islands.
Two of the men...