LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Village Maid, of Fleetwood
On the 10th Feb- ruary, at daylight, a vessel was observed to have sunk on the Dutchman's Bank, and the crew to be clinging to the rigging. The Penmon life-boat was accordingly launched through a high surf, and proceeded .to their aid....
Coins of All Countries
OUR life-boats can claim to be an inter- national service, not only because they have saved lives and vessels belonging to every country with a seaboard, but because the coins of all countries find their way into the life-boat collecting...
Category: Donations
Portrait of a Coxswain
COXSWAIN LEWIS BENJAMIN HARRISON has been coxswain of Cromer No. 2 lifeboat since ist October, 1953. He joined the crew of No. 2 life-boat in 1931, and served as second coxswain of No. i life-boat for six years, from 1947 to... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Welcome for the Duke from the Crowds As He Walked Up to the Exhibition Site With the Lord Mayor of Plymouth Councillor FJohnson (Right) and Captain Nigel Dixon
A welcome for the Duke from the crowds as he walked up to the exhibition site with the Lord Mayor of Plymouth, Councillor F.Johnson (right) and Captain Nigel Dixon, Director RNLI. . . .
photograph by courtesy of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Germ, of Goole
HORNSEA.—On the 13th November the ketch Germ, of Goole, riding at anchor 1 mile south of Hornsea, was seen to hoist signals of distress. The Life-boat Ellen and Margaret of Settle was thereon sent off to her aid; but the master declined her...
Columbia,of Stavanger
On the 7th April, 1869, the Arthur Frederick FitzRoy life-boat, on this station, went off to the barque Columbia, of Stavanger, which, during a high wind and dense fog, had run ashore opposite the life- boat house, soon after midnight. The...
Notes of the Quarter
FIGURES already available show that the year 1958 has been similar to the two preceding years in the demands made on life-boat crews. When a record figure for peacetime of 745 launches on service was established in 1956, this seemed an...
Category: Articles
Works of Peace. Life-Boat Services In 1869 and 1870
AMIDST wars and rumours of wars, whilst | the two leading nations of Western Europe are engaged in mortal strife—amidst the groans and cries of tens of thousands of wounded and dying men, and the tears and lamentations of countless numbers...
Category: Articles
A Raft of Races
The team from The Shoulder of Mutton, winners of the award for the pub collecting the most sponsorship in the river Ouse raft race. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
City of Marseilles
JANUARY 6TH. - BROUGHTY FERRY, ANGUS. At 11.6 A.M. a message was received from the Carnoustie coastguard that the twin-screw steamer City of Marseilles, of Glasgow, of 8,300 tons, bound from Calcutta to Dundee, had been mined off the Fairway...