LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Belgian Motor Life-Boats
IN The Lifeboat for November, 1925, we published an article on the Life- boat Service of Belgium. At that time there were on the thirty-five miles of the Belgian coast ten Life-saving Posts, each provided with a Pulling Life-boat and Rocket...
Category: Articles
The German Ship Teneriffe
Shorehani Harbour, Sussex - At 4.30 p.m. on I3th August, 1967, thecoastguard informed the honorary secretary that the German ship Teneriffe wished to land a sick passenger at Shoreham, but she was too large to enter the harbour. The...
Veteran Life-Boatmen's Dinner
ONE of the most unusual reunions in the history of the Isle of Wight life-boat service took place in October when the directors of the Isle of Wight County Press entertained nineteen veterans of the old pulling and sailing life-boats to a...
Category: Articles
The Cross Sands Lightvessel
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk: At 12 noon on 3rd November, 1965, the Superintendent of Trinity House, Great Yarmouth, asked for help in bringing off a sick man from the Cross Sands light vessel as the Trinity House tender was too far...
Jargoon, of Glasgow
JUNE 29TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At six in the morning the Great Yarmouth coastguard reported a vessel aground on the Scroby Sands. There was a light westerly breeze, and the sea was smooth. At 6.45 the motor life-boat...
The Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain John Swanson, of Longhope, in the Orkneys. He has been coxswain since 1900, and during the thirty-three years of his coxswainship the Longhope station has rescued fifty-four lives from shipwreck. He...
Category: Articles
Peterhead Lifeboat Crew on Service
Peterhead lifeboat crew on service Back Row: Jim Reid. Head Launcher; James Geary. Emergency Mechanic: Jimmy Anderson, 2nd Coxswain: Andy Brown. Coxswain: Bob Lee.
Mechanic/Radio Operator and Billy Proctor, Emergency... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Spirit of Fred. Olsen
The new B class lifeboat for Kyle of Lochalsh, in the Scottish Highlands, has been named Spirit of Fred. Olsen. She is pictured after her naming ceremony, being taken from the station to the water for a display.
The...
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Sarah
SCARBOROUGH.—On the 8th May the fishing coble Sarah, of this port, which had gone out at about 3 A.M., was caught in a gale from the E.S.E, which subsequently sprang up, and at about 8.30 she was seen making for the harbour. The sea had...