LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ex-Coxswain Robert Smith, of Tynemouth
BY the death of ex-Coxswain Kobert Smith of Tynemouth, on 30th October last, in his eightieth year, one of the greatest of the Institution's Coxswains has passed away. No man more gallantly and more honourably carried on the great...
Category: Obituaries
Surviving at Sea
As an organisation that aims to improve safety at sea – and one that is rooted in the UK’s maritime heritage – the Lloyd’s Register Group (LRG) shares plenty of ground with the RNLI. In 2004 it set up a separate registered charity dedicated...
Category: Articles
BROTHERS IN ARMS
On a popular Devon beach, unseasonably warm weather tempted people into the delights of the surf – and the dangers of the rip current …
While many families spent the afternoon carving Halloween pumpkins on 31 October 2015,...
Category: Articles
Books
• AH At Sea, a catch of true and tall stories trawled by writer and broadcaster Libby Purves, has been published by Fontana to mark the 160th anniversary of the RNLI, a milestone reached on March 4 this year. Here can be found all the...
Category: Articles
The Ex-HDML Eun Mara an Tar
Broken Steering Gear ON SEPTEMBER 29, 1973, Second Coxswain Rowley at Scarborough, Yorkshire (the coxswain being away on holiday), was informed at 11.22 p.m. by the duty officer of the lighthouse that red flares had been sighted off the...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
ROGERSTOWN, Co. DUBLIN.—In Feb- ruary 1873, a vessel was wrecked near this place, and the crew were nearly all day in the rigging before they could be rescued, there being no Life-boat at hand; the exposure resulted in the death of one of...
Category: Articles
Ma Jolie II,
Struck wreck WARDEN POINT COASTGUARD informed the deputy launching authority of Sheerness lifeboat station at 2046 on Saturday December 30, 1978, that a red flare had been sighted in Gillingham Reach. Maroons were fired at 2049 and at 2106...
BEATING THE ODDS
Reaching for his mobile phone, a kayaker went overboard. Cold and tired, he couldn’t get back onboard – or call for help
Lifeboat Helm Patsy O’Mahony was relaxing at home on a Sunday afternoon in February when his phone...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Essay Competition, 1929. Presentation of Prizes In the London District
AT the Caxton Hall, Westminster, on the 6th February the Mayor of West- minster (Captain J. F. C. Bennett) presided at the presentation of prizes won in the Life-boat Essay Competi- tion in London (consisting of schools in the London County...
Category: Articles
Perseverence and Lugger
Two yachts in force 10 WHEN, at 2327 on September 20, 1973, the honorary secretary of Shoreham, Sussex, was told by the Coastguard that a yacht was in distress 20 miles south of Shoreham, the maroons were fired and Dorothy and Philip...