LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Royal Sovereign Lightvessel
On the morning of the 1st December rockets were fired from the Royal Sovereign Light-vessel. The Life-boat put off, and on reaching the light-ship found that one of her crew had fallen from the shrouds attached to the shaft on which the...
The Earl of Harrowby
JOHN HERBERT DUDLEY RYDER, fifth Earl of Harrowby, died on the 30th of March, 1956, at the age of 91. The Earl of Harrowby had held the office of treasurer of the Institution longer than anyone else in the Institution's history. He was...
Category: Obituaries
The Mail Steamer Lochearn
NOVEMBER 22ND. - BARRA ISLAND, HEBRIDES. During the morning the mail steamer Lochearn, of Oban, arrived in Castlebay harbour. A southerly gale was blowing, with a rough sea, and the steamer was unable to make the pier. She had to anchor in...
On the Scroby Sands
The Belgium trawler Yarmouth, wrecked on the 3rd of December, 1950. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
SCARBOROUGH.—On the morning of the 2nd December, 1886, during a heavy gale from the N., the dandy Gustave, of and from St. Yalery-en-Canx for North Shields with flint stone, brought up in the roads about a mile S.E. from the piers, showed...
Category: Services
Right - the Great Gale: the Rescue of the Crew of the Venscapen Off Aldeburgh.
Right - The great gale: the rescue of the crew of the Venscapen off Aldeburgh.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Danish Schooner The Mogens Koch
Newhaven (Sussex).
On 7th December, the day on which the gales reached their height, the Newhaven Motor Life-boat was called out just before 7.30 in the morning to the help of a Danish schooner, the Mogens Koch, which had...
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
RUNSWICK, YORKSHIRE. — Fourteen Whitby cobles being overtaken by a rough sea while fishing on the 13th Feb. 1900, were unable to return home and were seen to be making for Runswick. The Life-boat Gape of Good Hope was launched at 1.30 P.M....
Category: Services
Returning from the Rescue
The Motor Life-boat, Greater London, at Southend on-Sea (Essex), returning with five men and a woman, the crews of three barges in distress at the mouth of the Thames, on 23rd November, 1930. The mast of one barge which sank can be seen in... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Infant Life-boatmen
Since they were shown a film by Mrs. Angela Wooldridge, secretary of the Stourbridge branch of the R.N.L.I., the children at Hob Green Infants' School, Stourbridge, Worcestershire, have taken a special interest in the life-boat service....
Category: Articles