LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
George and Martha, and Mizpah
Newbiggin, and Blytb, Northumberland, —At about 10.50 A.M. on the 24th January, 1938, the coastguard telephoned that a fishing boat had been reported in difficulties off Old Hartley Bay and a little later that she was off Seaton Sluice Point...
The Collapsible Life-Boat
IN No. 10 of this Journal we described and eulogized this, as we believe, invaluable boat, invented by the Rev. E. L. BERTHON, of Fareham, and in our 23rd Number we stated that we should not cease to draw the attention of our readers to its...
Category: Articles
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
Walmer and Deal, Kent.—A Branch of the National Life-Boat Institution, under the above title, has been recently founded at Walmer, and a 30-feet; life-boat, on Mr. PEAKE'S plan, perfectly equipped both for sailing and rowing, and...
Category: Articles
Death of Mr. John Walter. Memento Mori
MYSTERIOUS are the ways of God to man! We would willingly believe, nay, we dare not disbelieve, that God's dealings with man are always just; that whatever direction his journey through life may take, or terminate when or how it may, it...
Category: Obituaries
A Letter from Three Collectors
"LAURAINE my cousin, Timothy my friend, and myself had a show in which we had on show our colections of buter- flies, moths, birds egg's cigarette cards, stamps, stons, moss and shells.
"Each person had to pay...
Category: Donations
Mary
BUCKIE, BANFFSHIRE.—The lugger Mary, of Buckle, was taken off the beach, at about midnight on the 30th April, in order to proceed to Gluny Harbour to be fitted out for the west coast herring fishery. A whole gale suddenly sprung up from...
Voering
The steamer Veering, of Copenhagen, bound from Rotterdam to the Tyne, in ballast, stranded on the rocks off Whitburn in a dense fog on the night of the 23rd September. Information reached the Coxswain at about 11.30 P.M., and the Life-boat...
Master and commander
An RNLI coxswain must be brave but what else does it take to inspire the confidence and trust of a modern-day crew?
On 9 July 2010, Mike Lawrence was not only in charge of Calshot’s Tyne class Alexander Coutanche but also...
Category: Articles
Memories of the Sea and the Life-Boat Service
It was intended to resume the series of " Honorary Workers of the Institution," in which twelve articles have already been published, the last appearing in TheLifeboat for August, 1927 —with an article on the work of Mr. Ernest...
Category: Articles
S.S. Gripfast and S.S. Stanburn
JANUARY 29TH. - BRIDLINGTON, YORKSHIRE. At 1.50 P .M. a message came from the Bridlington coastguard that rockets had been seen eight to ten miles E.S.E. of the coastguard station. A strong E.S.E. gale was blowing, with a heavy sea.