LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lifesaving evolution
While our lifesaving purpose has always stayed the same, our rescue map has constantly evolved since 1824 – so what are the latest developments around the coast?
We have 235 established...
Category: Articles
An Aeroplane (187)
NOVEMBER 28TH. - FENIT, CO: KERRY.
A German aeroplane had crashed near the Blasket Islands and three of the crew were safe, but two others were adrift in the aeroplane’s rubber boat. A search was made, but nothing was...
An Aeroplane (130)
AUGUST 3lST. - RHYL, FLINTSHIRE.
The pilot of a British aeroplane had wirelessed that he was baling out about 3 miles N.W. of Rhyl, but the life-boat was recalled before she reached the position given. - Rewards, £16...
A Vessel (13)
AUGUST 21ST. - WICKLOW. A vessel had been reported on fire, but nothing was found, and later it was learned that the crew of the vessel had got the fire under control. - Rewards, £5 7s 6d.
Your Letters
The future of maroons Sir - Are we to witness the total phasing out of the firing of maroons at our lifeboat stations? This issue must have been the subject of much debate during my periods at sea away from the UK, but I sincerely hope that...
Category: Correspondence
A Fishing Boat
FRASERBURGH, N.B.—In consequence of many fishing-boats having been caught at sea in bad weather on the 20th and 21st August, when blowing a strong gale from the N., the Life-boat Charlotte was kept constantly afloat, and manned, giving...
Rose, of Lyne
on 28th Nov., saved 3 men from the schooner Rose, of Lynn..
William, of Liverpool
on 9th Feb., saved 5 men from the schooner William, of Liverpool..
Death of Two Honorary Workers. Mr. C. A. Myers, of Lytham, and Ex-Lord Provost Longair, of Dundee
Mr. C. A. Myers, of Lytham, and ex-Lord Provost Longair, of Dundee.
THE Institution has lost two old and valued friends by the death of Mr.
Charles Arthur Myers, of Lytham, Lancashire, and ex-Lord...
Category: Obituaries
H.M. Submarine Truculent
Margate, Kent, and Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—On the 12th of January, 1950, the life-boats from these two stations were out on service, assisting with the transhipment of survivors from H.M.
Submarine Truculent.—Rewards: Mar-...