LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Solar Gipsy
Weymouth, Dorset.—At 11.55 on the morning of the 4th of June, 1957, the Wyke Regis coastguard telephoned to say a yacht was being towed by the S.S. Cora fifteen miles south-west of Portland Bill and to ask if the life-boat would take over...
The Sailing Boat Roustabout
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—On the morning of the 3rd January, 1939, the sailing boat Roustabout, of Lowestoft, left harbour with a crew of four. At 11.30 A.M. the life-boat coxswain, who had gone to the coastguard lookout, saw the boat drifting...
The Admiralty Trawler Kirkella
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- * folk.—At 2.40 A.M. on the 20th October, 1939, the Gorleston coastguard reported that a vessel north of the St.
Nicholas Light-vessel had fired distress signals. The light-vessel also...
The Scarweather Lightvessel
LIGHTVESSEL MASTER ILL At 12.45 p.m. on 6th February, 1965, the Superintendent of Trinity House informed the honorary secretary that the Master of Scarweather lightvessel was sick and asked for the life-boat to take a doctor out to him. At 1...
The Ex-R.N.L.B. Elsie
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—At 6.45 on the morning of the 21st of March, 1951, the life-boat watchman reported a life-boat in a bad position in the bay. At 7.30 the life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson left her...
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain John Strachan, of Peterhead. He has been coxswain since 1922, and during those fourteen years the Peterhead life- boat has rescued 104 lives. Coxswain Strachan was awarded the silver medal of the...
Category: Articles
The Duchess of Kent.
The Duchess of Kent has accepted the invitation of the Committee of Management to become the Institution's President in succession to the late Duke of Kent..
Category: Articles
The Foundering of the "Northfleet," January 1873
A fragment* 'MIDST the thick darkness Death, The dread inexorable monarch, stalked ; And, lo! his icy breath Encircled the devoted barque where talked, Or laughed, or watched, or slept, The doomed three hundred of her living freight,...
Category: Poetry
The Grace Darling Museum
The newly extended West Room of the Grace Darling Memorial Museum at Bamburgh. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Destroyer Javelin
NOVEMBER 29TH. - THE LIZARD, CORNWALL. The destroyer Javelin had been damaged in a naval engagement, and was on fire 15 miles S.E. of the life-boat station. After going out ten miles the lifeboat came within eight of the battle, asked for...