LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Lay of the Life-Boat
GENTLEMEN all, are your glasses charged? for I've a toast for the winter weather.
Answer it, then, with a three times three; voice and heart, if you please, together.
It is not a sorrowful theme I...
Category: Poetry
Lymington: An Information Case Has Recently Been Put on the Side of the New Ilb House a Solidly Built Metal Structure With Three Opening Glazed Doors It Was Designe
Lymington: An information case has recently been put on the side of the new ILB house. A solidly built metal structure with three opening glazed doors, it was designed, constructed and erected by local 'friends of the lifeboat'. It... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution
DONNA NOOK, LINCOLNSHIRE.—On the 10th March, 1867, the schooner Squire, of Yarmouth, was observed making for the shore in a disabled state, a heavy gale blowing from E.N.E. at the time. -The North Briton life-boat was soon launched, and...
Category: Services
Motor Life-Boats of the Institution. No. 3.—The 45-Feet 6-Inches Watson (Cabin) Type
THE 45-feet 6-inches Watson (Cabin) Motor Life-boat was the first type of Motor Life-boat in the Institution's fleet to be provided with a cabin, and the first of the type was built in 1923.
This Life-boat is a...
Category: Articles
Saucy Sue
Tenby, Pembrokeshire - At 1.36 p.m.
on 4th November, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been sighted off Caldy. The life-boat Henry Comber Brown slipped her moorings at 1.44 in a...
Notes of the Quarter By Patrick Howarth
A LIFEBOAT DISASTER may have been narrowly averted last December. Soon after the Padstow lifeboat had launched late in the evening of December 7, she was struck by three exceptionally heavy seas. A considerable weight of water dropped almost...
Category: Articles
Lifeboats Live on In Oz
Lifeboats live on in Oz Ex-Arun lifeboat, Spirit of Tayside, was sold to the Royal Volunteer Coastal Patrol and placed on station at Port Stephens, New South Wales in September. This picture was taken as the boat was being lifted out of the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
'A Heavy Breaking Sea Then Struck the Boat on the Quarter, Washing Her Broadside on to the Beach . . .'
A heavy breaking sea then struck the boat on the quarter, washing her broadside on to the beach ...'. This fine action photograph—it is a 'still' from a film—was taken by B.B.C. cameraman Tony Knightley from the cliff overlooking... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Services of the Life-Boats In April, May and June, 1954. 91 Lives Rescued
APRIL DURING April life-boats were launched 26 times and rescued 22 lives.
THREE MEN RESCUED FROM SAILING BOAT Margate, Kent.—At 2.50 on the after- noon of the 1st of April, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that he had...
Category: Services
The S.S. Irma, of Sweden
DECEMBER 8TH. - FALMOUTH, CORNWALL,.
At eleven in the morning the coastguard reported a vessel in distress off The Manacles. A strong north-easterly gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea. The motor life-boat Crawford and...