LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Centenary of Life-Boat Stations. Presentation of Vellums Signed By the Prince of Wales
Blyth, Northumberland.
THE Blyth Life-boat Station was established in 1826, when the Newcastle Branch Association applied to the Institution for a Life-boat, and the Station was taken over by the Institution in 1866. It has...
Category: Articles
Notes of the Quarter By Patrick Howarth
THE 13TH INTERNATIONAL LIFEBOAT CONFERENCE, on which a report appears on page 148, was as always an extremely harmonious and friendly affair. Indeed it would be difficult to find a gathering of pleasanter people anywhere in the world. To...
Category: Articles
Memories of a Jersey Crewman
In place of a "Focus" report on a life-boat station we are publishing the following contribution sent to us by a crewman of the Jersey life-boat, who wishes to remain anonymous. The article was received after "Focus on St....
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Naming Ceremonies Handing Over and Dedications
Girvan, June 25 The second of the new 33ft Brede class lifeboats to go on station in Scotland was named Philip Vaux at a ceremony which took place at Girvan Harbour on Saturday June 25. Largely funded from a bequest by the late Mrs Elizabeth...
Category: Inaugurations
Bonnie Lass
PLEASURE BOAT RUNS AGROUND Ballycotton, Co. Cork. The life-boat coxswain was fishing in his motor boat Star of the Sea a quarter of a mile southwest of Ballycotton lighthouse on the morning of Thursday the 8th of August, 1963, when he saw...
Notes of the Quarter By the Editor
LIFEBOATS, IT IS OFTEN SAID, put OUt when other vessels are seeking the shelter of harbour. An example of how a lifeboat was able to carry out a mission while other well-found vessels were unable even to leave harbour occurred on the night...
Category: Articles
January 1881: Three Weeks of Storms and Blizzards Just a Hundred Years Ago By Ray Kipling Public Relations Officer
A CENTURY AGO lifeboat crews were nearly all fishermen who spent most of their time working at sea and were well used to long periods of exposure in harsh conditions. Their lifeboats, although the best of their day, were simple open boats...
Category: Articles
William, of Carnarvon
On the 29th Oct., 1868, during a hard gale, a smack, which was riding heavily in a danger- ous position outside the roadstead, hoisted a signal of distress. The Cotton Sheppard life-boat was launched, and proceeded out, when it was found...
Right: the Dedication Service of the Lord Southborough
Right: The dedication service of The Lord Southborough (Civil Service No 1) at Margate. She was the the 18th lifeboat purchased by the fund but retained the title Civil Service No 1. - View image in PDF
Photo Grahams Fan Archives. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs