LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
H.R.H. The Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll
H.R.H. THE PRINCESS LOUISE, Duchess of Argyll, who died on 3rd December, 1939, at the age of ninety-one, had for many years been personally associated with the work of the Institution. She became president of its Kensington branch in 1914....
Category: Obituaries
The Motor Coble Premier
MAY 5TH. - SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. At daybreak the motor coble Premier went out to attend to her crab pots.
As the wind and sea were rising the life-boat crew assembled. By early afternoon a strong north-easterly wind was...
Hilda II, Betty Sheader and Rachel
Scarborough, Yorkshire - At 4.55 a.m. on i4th August, 1966, attention wasdrawn to the fact that three fishing cobles were at sea in rapidly deteriorating weather. At 5.5 the life-boat J. G. Graves of Sheffield was launched in a strong...
The Liberian Motor-Vessel Brother George
LIBERIAN VESSEL Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. At 2.30 a.m. on 23rd February, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a vessel was aground opposite Brook coastguard lookout. There was a near gale from the south-east with a rough sea,...
Marina Benvenuto
ABKLOW, IBELANB,—At 3 P.M. on the 28th December the Italian barque Marina Benvemito, bound from Liverpool to Cardiff in ballast, was observed ashore on the -Arklow bank. The wind was blowing from the 8.W., the weather was hazy, and the sea...
Fishing Cobles
Filey, Yorkshire. At 11.30 on the morning of the 4th April, 1961, in the absence of the honorary secretary, the motor mechanic informed the branch chairman that nine cobles were still at sea and, in view of weather conditions, the life-boat...
Life-Boat Service In the East End of London
THE secretary of the Institution would like to repeat the appeal made in the last issue of The Life-boat for volunteers from Greater London to help to develop the Institution's work in the East End by forming an East End branch, in-...
Category: Advertisement
An Eggs-Tra Special Gift
The £20,000 Faberge-style egg has finally found a home with the Worshipful Company of Shipwrights in London. It is especially appropriate as the egg contains a model of the City of London.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Sonnet
About 3 P.M. on the 23rd May information was received that a steam-drifter was ashore on Braga Skerry. The crew of the Life-boat Good Shepherd were promptly summoned and the boat sent to their assistance. On arrival at the vessel, which...
Victor
The motor fishing-boat Victor, registered at Montrose but belonging to the village of Johnshaven, when returning from the fishing ground on the 23rd October, got into difficulties owing to the un- satisfactory working of the motor, and as a...