LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Lorentzen
WHITBY.—On the 12th March, at about 1 P.M., the s.s. Lorentzen, of London, was seen to become unmanageable and to be fast drifting on to Whitby Rocks. As the crew were in great peril, the Robert Whitworth Life-boat proceeded to their aid.<...
Coxswain Henry Blogg GC BEM of Cromer— from the Painting By T C Dugdale ARA Which Hangs In the RNLI Headquarters In London
Coxswain Henry Blogg, G.C., B.E.M., of Cromer— from the painting by T. C. Dugdale, A.R.A., which hangs in the R.N.L.I. headquarters in London..
Category: Drawings
Lady Sarah Fitzalan-Howard at the Wheel of the New Selsey Sussex Life-Boat — a 48-Foot 6-Inch Oakleyaccompanied By Coxswain Ron Arnell
Lady Sarah Fitzalan-Howard at the wheel of the new Selsey, Sussex, life-boat — a 48-foot 6-inch Oakleyaccompanied by Coxswain Ron Arnell.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Fowey: the Champagne Bottle Breaks As Mr Paul Chilcott Names the 33Ft Brede Class Lifeboat Rnlb Leonore Chilcott Photograph By Courtesy of Harry and Billy Graeme
Fowey: The champagne bottle breaks as Mr Paul Chilcott names the 33ft Brede class lifeboat RNLB Leonore Chilcott. photograph by courtesy of Harry and Billy Graeme. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Kaida, of Leith
DECEMBER 22ND. - SELSEY, SUSSEX.
At 9.40 at night the coastguard reported distress signals from a vessel off Middleton, and at ten o’clock the motor life-boat Canadian Pacific was launched in a strong, northerly wind with a...
Admiral of the Fleet the Earl Jellicoe of Scapa
BY the death on 20th November, at the of seventy-seven, of Admiral of the Fleet the Earl Jellicoe of Scapa, G.C.B., O.M., G.C.V.O., the Institution has lost one of its most distinguished vice-presidents. Lord Jellicoe became a member of the...
Category: Obituaries
Services of the Life-Boats In January, February and March, 1958. 77 Lives Rescued
JANUARY DURING JANUARY life-boats were launched on service 45 times and rescued 54 lives.
DOCTOR TAKEN TO GRIMSBY TRAWLER Bridlington, Yorkshire. At three o'clock on the afternoon of the 3rd of January, 1958, the...
Category: Services
The Launching of the Life-Boat
When wild winds howl along the deep, And bid the ocean mountains rise To thunder on White Albion's steep The vengeance of her native skies, What cheers the storm-tossed mariners, Wrecked on her rock-bound shore, And nerves their hearts...
Category: Poetry
The Saint
LYNMOUTH, NORTH DEVON.—A schooner, The Saint, of Euncorn, bound from France for Portmadoc with hay, straw, and ballast, having been dismasted off The Smalls in a N.W. gale on the 5th January, was taken in tow by a large steamer; but on the...
The Austrian Barque Pace
About 1 P.M. on the 28th December, JOSEPH Cox, the cox- swain of the Hope life-boat stationed at Appledore, was informed by the coast-guard that two vessels were embayed, and would probably go on shore. He instantly assembled his crew,...