LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
H.M.S. Wanderer
OCT. 24TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. - At, 12.28 P.M a message was received from the senior naval officer through the Gorleston coastguard that H.M.S. Wanderer expected to arrive in Yarmouth Roads at 1.30 P.M. and that a...
The Cashier
LITTLE HAVEN, PEMBROKESHIRE.—On the 15th February, while a strong gale was blowing from W.N.W., accompanied by a heavy sea, intelligence was received that a large barque which was lying in St. Bride's Bay was dragging her anchors and was...
Visitors Looking Round the Lobster Holding Tanks at Padstow Are Encouraged to Give to the Rnli Gil Lobb Whose Tanks They Are Is Seen Here Being Presented With a Plaque By Coxswain Trevor E
Visitors looking round the lobster holding tanks at Padstow are encouraged to give to the RNLI. Gil Lobb, whose tanks they are, is seen here being presented with a plaque by Coxswain Trevor England for his efforts, which this year alone, up... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Coxswain Blogg Twice Rams the Bulwarks of the Wreck, and So Gets the Life-Boat Right Under the Rigging, Where the Two Men Are
Coxswain Blogg Twice Rams The Bulwarks of the Wreck and So Gets The Life-Boat Right Under The Rigging Where The Two Men Are. First One and Then The Other Jumps Aboard. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Russian Seaman Took This Photograph As the Duchess of Kent Lifeboat (Arrowed) Was Overturned By a Huge Wave. on the Right the Only Survivor—Mr. Jackson Buchan—Is Shown Landing from Th
A Russian seaman took this photograph as the Duchess of Kent lifeboat (arrowed) was overturned by a huge wave. On the right the only survivor—Mr. Jackson Buchan—is shown landing from the Buckle lifeboat after being picked up by a Russian... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Cousins
On the 2nd October the Life-boat was again called out for service, a vessel being reported in distress near the Crosby light-vessel. The boat proceeded through a very heavy sea, the wind blowing strong gale from W.N.W., and on her way found...
Medals of the Institution Granted to Naval and Marine Officers
IT has been repeatedly suggested that we, the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITU- TION might publish a list of those officers of has been awarded. We accordingly the Royal Navy and Marines now living to place the same before our readers. It...
Category: Medals
The Finnish Three-Masted Sailing Barque Alastor
Droughty Ferry, Angus.—Shortly before 9 A.M. on the 19th December, 1938, information was received from the pilot cutter and the coastguard that a vessel was in distress a quarter of a mile E.N.E. of the Abertay...
The power of the sea
Need some inspiration for your Summer reading list? Here’s a collection of books that celebrate the skills and endurance needed to master our planet’s expansive oceans
For adventurers
Across the Arctic Ocean –...
Category: Articles