LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Shipwash Light-vessel
DECEMBER 16TH. - ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK.
The Shipwash Light-vessel had been bombed and machine-gunned by German aeroplanes and one of the crew had been wounded, but an R.A.F. speed boat arrived before the life-boat. - Rewards,...
The Dredger Delta
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 1.15 on the afternoon of the 12th of December, 1956, the Formby coastguard tele- phoned that the dredger Delta had engine trouble and was in danger of drifting on to the revetment wall a mile and a half north of...
The Owers Lightvessel
Selsey, Sussex. At 12.5 on the afternoon of the 30th November, 1961, the honorary secretary received a request from the Superintendent of Trinity House, Cowes, for the life- boat to take off a sick man from the Owers lightvessel as soon as...
The Wreck Paperchase
The wreck Paperchase with a gaping hole in the starboard side. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Annual Meetings
the RNLI's AGM and Presentation ot/ards The Barbican, in the City of London, was once again the venue for the RNLI's annual meetings - held this year on 15 May. The morning AGM allows the Chairman to present his review of the...
Category: Meetings
Naming the Life-Boat
IN previous issues of this Journal * the building and testing of a Life-boat have been described, and it is proposed in this and ensuing articles to give some account of the further life history of the boat.
The boat being...
Category: Articles
The Editor Retires
FOR the first time in thirty-three years The Life-boat is appearing under a new editor. Mr. Charles Vince, the former editor, retired from the service of the Institution on the 1st of July, 1953.
His appointment as editor...
Category: Articles
The Owers Lightship
NOVEMBER 9TH. - SELSEY, SUSSEX. At 1.45 in the afternoon the coastguard passed on a message from Owers Lightship asking the life-boat to come out to the lightship and take a sick man ashore. A strong northerly breeze was blowing, with a...
The New Deputy-Secretary
The new deputy-secretary is Lieut.-Col. C. Stewart Watson, of the Royal Marines. He was educated at Cheltenham College and has specialised in naval gunnery. First as head ot the School of Naval Gunnery at Portsmouth, and then as...
Category: Articles
The Most Lives Saved
Feature The most lives saved A hundred years ago, a liner full of passengers needed saving off the Cornish coast – one lifeboat just wasn’t going to be enough After months at sea, the White Star liner Suevic was within hours of completing...
Category: Articles