LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Safety at Sea With Pyrotechnics-Part 1 Choosing the Right Distress Signals
WITH the present boom in the yachting and boating industry rising steadily each year, as more and more people seek and enjoy pleasurable pastimes afloat, there is also a growing anxiety from the marine rescue associations generally about the...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
WALTON-ON-NAZE, ESSEX.—At 9.30 A.M. on the 26th Feb., 1904, a telephone message was received from the Gunfleet Lighthouse stating that a vessel was aground on the sands. The crew and helpers of the Life-boat James Stevens No. 14 were at once...
Category: Services
Mr. George Colven, the Shore Attendant at St. Abbs, Pointing to the Rock (arrowed), the Highest of the Group, on Which the S.S Alfred Erlandsen Grounded In 1907
Mr. George Colven, the shore attendant at St. Abbs, pointing to the rock (arrowed), the highest of the group, on which the s.i. Alfred Erlandsen grounded in 1907-the sinking which ted to the establishment of a life-boat station at St.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
1826 Plan of Douglas Bay and Harbour Clearly Shows Hazardous Rocks Improvements to Harbour Works Running Out from Douglas Head and St.Mary's Rock Propose
1826 Plan of Douglas Bay and Harbour clearly shows hazardous rocks. Improvements to harbour works, running out from Douglas Head and St Mary's Rock, proposed by Sir William Hillary, are hatched.
by courtesy of the Manx...
Category: Charts
Peruvian
NEWHAVEN.—On the morning of the 8th February the coastguard reported to the coxswain of the Life-boat that a vessel was ashore at Seaford. The crew were at once summoned and the Life-boat Michael Henry was launched at 3.50. A strong gale was...
Our Life-Boat Men
Steady, brave and earnest, See them as they stand, Waiting for the signal That bids them leave the land.
Out upon the waters, Lashed to fury now, Each man and youth is working With a grave and anxious...
Category: Poetry
Svanen
The Wexford harbour master informed the life-boat authorities on the evening of the 15th November that the four- masted motor vessel Svanen, of Copen- hagen, was aground on Wexford Bar.
She had a crew of eight on board, and...
Awards Presented By Countess Mountbatten
at the Royal Festival Hall on 16 May 1989 [ Bronze Medals for Gallantry Helmsman Alan Clarke, Hunstanton, Norfolk.
On 7 February 1988 the Hunstanton Atlantic 21 class lifeboat Spirit of America took off an injured man from...
Category: Awards
November
NOVEMBER Launches 71. Lives rescued 91.
NOVEMBER 1ST. - SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. Wind and sea had got up in the morning while several fishing boats were out, and by eleven o’clock a strong easterly gale was blowing, with a...
Category: Services
Another Motor Life-Boat Flotilla
IN the issue of this Journal for August, 1909, the adventures of a Life-boat flotilla on the voyage from London to the distant Orkneys were described.
Almost precisely two years afterwards another such flotilla, also...
Category: Articles