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...
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
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
The Trawler and the Remains of Her Boat
The Trawler and The Remains of Her Boat. - 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 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