LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Lifeboat Service In Two World Wars
THE Royal National Lifeboat Institution, which depends entirely on voluntary contributions, was founded in 1824 and has now saved over 98,500 lives in peace and war. Sir William Hillary, the founder, built the lifeboat service on sound...
Category: Articles
The Greenock Steamer Ardgantock Listing Badly
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Category: Photographs
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
WALMER.—On the 6th Feb., 1897, in response to guns and rockets, the reserve Life-boat temporarily placed on this station was launched at about 3.45 A.M., proceeded to the South Sand Head light- vessel, and ascertained that she had been run...
Category: Services
The French Fishing Boat T.R 47
Whilst making for Newhaven Harbour on the 13th March in a W. by S. moderate gale and very heavy sea, the French fishing-boat T. R. 47 stranded about a quarter of a mile to the eastward. The Life-boat was promptly launched, but whilst pro-...
The Storm-Warrior
Harkt Harkl 'tis the boom of a distant gun, And the stoutest heart doth quail, For there's death maybe in the raging sea To him who would dare the gale.
But the wind may shriek till it crack each cheek, And the sea...
Category: Poetry
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
THUBSO, CAITHNESS-SHIRE.—A fierce W.N.W. gale sprang up shortly before midnight on the 6-7th January and increased as the night advanced. At about 1 A.M. the ketch Resolute, of New- castle, which was at anchor in the roads, made signals of...
Category: Services
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
RAMSGATE.—On the 2nd January, 1894,was blowing S. by E., and there was a good deal of swell on the sea. The Life- boat Ellen and Eliza, was promptly launched and on reaching the spot found that the barque Agerden haying lost her reckoning in...
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JULY 30TH. - HOYLAKE, CHESHIRE.
A red flare had been reported by a fisherman, but the life-boat could find nothing. - Rewards, £15 14s. 6d.
Two Wrecks In the Shetlands. Stromness Motor Life-Boat's Journeys of 260 and 240 Miles
DURING March and April two vessels were wrecked on the Shetland Islands.
They were both vessels sailing from Aberdeen. One was a trawler, the Ben Doran, and, in spite of courageous efforts to rescue her crew, all were...
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An Aeroplane (73)
MAY 20TH. - ST. DAVID’S, PEMBROKESHIRE.
At about 7.50 P.M. the coastguard reported that an aeroplane had crashed into the sea south of Ramsey Island, and the motor life-boat Civil Service No. 6 was launched at 8.19 P.M. and...