LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S.Matin
On the 9th February, at 4.45 A.M., during thick weather, blue lights were seen in the direction of the Scroby Sand.
The No. 2 Life-boat proceeded there; found the s.s.Matin, of Dundee, ashore, and, at the master's...
Williamson Tea
F k. MMi M Drinking Tea Saves Lives! BOAT TE BOAT] TEA No, this is not a new medical discovery.
But it is true, because every time an 80-tea bag packet of Lifeboat Tea is sold, four pence is contributed to the Royal...
Category: Advertisement
Major Osman Gabriel Having the Controls of the Rother Class Lifeboat He Has Presented to the RNLI Explained to Him at the Boat Show With Him Are (Left) Coxswain/Me
Major Osman Gabriel having the controls of the Rother class lifeboat he has presented to the R.N.L.I. explained to him at the Boat Show. With him are (left) Coxswain/Mechanic William Dent and Mr. Evan Owens, Moelfre's retired motor... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
"One More for the Life-Boat Crew."
"THE lads are afloat, they have launched the boat Where the moaning storm-birds- flew; Oh, wife, from the shores they cry, ' One more, With strong, steady hand, and true I' There are lives to save On the frothing wave— ' One...
Category: Poetry
The Trawler and the Remains of Her Boat
The Trawler and The Remains of Her Boat. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Lough of the Irish
With half of its crew women, seven of its volunteers from the same family and not a drop of salt water in sight, Lough Derg is a unique lifeboat stationAt the turn of the Millennium the RNLI began to look at new ways to save lives, in...
Category: Articles
Roe Cliff
TROON.—A terrific gale of wind from W. to N.W. suddenly sprung] up on the morning of the 1st November, and while the storm was at its height the schooner Roe Cliff, of Skene, bound from Porsgrund, Norway, for Troon, with a cargo of deals and...
Dee Gypsy
IRB TRANSFERRED CREW Blackpool, Lancashire. At 12.40 a.m.
on 28th August, 1965, the police told the honorary secretary that a small yacht was firing distress flares approximately \ mile offshore near the South Pier. At one...
The Church
The Bishop of Exeter (the Right Rev. Lord William Gascoyne-Cecil) preaching from the Ilfracombe life-boat at the annual service in the grounds of SS. Philip and James's Church to a congregation of over 1,200.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Crew
Awards for saving drowning man...
Brain Barkess, crew member at Sunderland lifeboat station, has been awarded a Royal Humane Society Resuscitation Certificate in recognition of his actions during the rescue of three people...
Category: Articles