LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Young Geoffrey Ward (R) Looks Happy to Be Alive;
Young Geoffrey Ward (r) looks happy to be alive; he was rescued after slipping into the sea off rocks at Porthowan, Cornwall. His mother (c) looks even happier as she shows off some of the goods on sale at the coffee morning she organised... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mrs. Lotinga Smith, of Gedling
BY the death of Mrs. Lotinga Smith, of Gedling, Nottingham, on the 26th of December, 1950, at the age of 93, the Institution has lost its oldest honorary worker. In spite of her age, and in spite of ill-health, she refused to give up and...
Category: Obituaries
Manx tales
The Isle of Man is an unusual location whose community is inextricably linked to the sea – and the RNLI
Set in the midst of the Irish Sea, encircled by all five nations of the UK and RoI, the Isle of Man (IoM) is actually...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat On Show For 100 Years
Lifeboat on show for 100 years Redcar’s Zetland museum, the home of the world’s oldest surviving lifeboat, celebrated its centenary on 1 May.
The Zetland lifeboat arrived at Redcar in 1802, predating the foundation of the...
Category: Articles
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Breeches buoy rescue TWO PEOPLE IN DANGER, stranded on a rock at the mouth of the River Dee, were reported to the deputy launching authority of Kirkcudbright lifeboat station by Ardrossan Coastguard at 1321 on Sunday, May 16. The weather was...
Blackbird and a Canoe
Three calls A CANOE with two children aboard, overdue on passage from Colne Point to West Mersea, was reported to the deputy launching authority of West Mersea ILB station by Thames Coastguard at 2006 on Monday July 31,...
Hastings County, of Bergen
ON the night of June 13th the Motor Life-boat at Stromness was called out to the help of a large steamer, the Hastings County, of Bergen, on her way from Hamburg to Montreal with a general cargo, which the Coast Guard had reported to have...
Lady Westmorland, of Newcastle
Early on the morning of the 24th January, during blowing weather and in a very hard frost, this noble boat and her consort were again the means of rendering good service to a shipwrecked crew. They went out in ready response to signal-guns...
Foison
PORTRUSH.—The fishing-smack Foison, of Portrush, was dismasted in a heavy squall off Port Stewart Point, on the evening of the 2nd November. Two other smacks were in company with her, but were unable to render her any assistance, on account...
Portrait of a Coxswain
THE photograph shows Coxswain William Coull, of Girvan, Ayrshire. He was appointed coxswain on 5th May, 1960. Previously, after nearly six months as bowman, he served from September, 1956, as second coxswain. Since he joined the crew in 1956... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs