LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Fisheries Exhibition
IT would probably savour of exaggeration to assert that this Exhibition is entitled to the first place in the long roll of similar undertakings, of which the Exhibition of 1851 was the grand beginning; but history will give it a high place...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Year's Work
THE work of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, in saving life from Shipwreck in the year 1872, may thus be briefly summarised:— Lives saved.
By Life-boats 569 By Shore-boats and other means, for -whose services the...
Category: Annual Reports
The Late Edward Spender, Esq.
THE LATE EDWARD SPENDER, ESQ.
BY the lamented death of this gentleman, the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has lost one of its ablest and most steadfast advocates in the press. On Friday, the 7th June last, Mr. Spender...
Category: Obituaries
The Screw Collier Bessie, of Hayle
During a heavy gale from N.E., on the 16th January, the Bessie, of Hayle, a new screw-collier, worth 10,000/., went a shore on Hayle Bar. She soon became firmly imbedded in the sand, and her crew, consisting of 9 men, had to take to the fore...
Sunshine, of Padstow
on the 10th October, this life-boat was launched and proceeded to the wreck of the schooner Sunshine, of Padstow, on the Newcome Sand, the wind blowing a fresh gale from the S.W. at the time. On arrival at the vessel it was found that she...
On the Launching of the Aldeburgh Life-Boat, August 18th, 1891
WHAT is more precious than a human life, But what more frail ? What stronger in its might.
Or lovelier in its strength, than the fair sight Of noble man contending with the strife Of some more powerful foe ? Such is our...
Category: Poetry
The Crew of Margate Lifeboat Are Presented to Princess Margaret By Alan Wear (R) Station Honorary Secretary Before the Service of Dedication: (I to R) Crew Member Kenneth Sandwell Motor M
The crew of Margate lifeboat are presented to Princess Margaret by Alan Wear (r.), station honorary secretary, before the service of dedication: (I. to r.) Crew Member Kenneth Sandwell, Motor Mechanic Alfred Lacey, Second Coxswain David... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Motor Drifter Curlew
At 11.30 A.M. on the 24th Novem- ber the reserve motor life-boat City of Bradford I (on temporary duty at this station), which had already been out earlier in the day to search for a vessel reported ashore, see page 414), put out again, as...
The Horsa
ST. MARY'S, SCILLY ISLANDS.—A message was received by telephone from the coastguard station at St. Martin's, reporting that a full-rigged ship was ashore, at about 10.30 on the morning of the 4th April. The Life-boat Henry Dundas was...
On the Goodwin Sands
The Walmer life-boat and wrecks of American ships. - View image in PDF
(See page 333). - View image in PDF
From a photograph by Mr. Amos Burg, of Portland, Oregan, U.S.A.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs