LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mr. Felix Rubie, M.I.N.A., Late Surveyor of Life-Boats
Mr. Felix Rubie, M.I.N.A., who died on 25th February last, had passed the greater part of his life in the service of the Institution. Born in 1862, he was brought up at Cowes, and it was there that he learnt his sailing. He served his...
Category: Obituaries
Aden, of Liverpool
he Florence Life-boat of this station proceeded through heavy squalls to the assistance of the schooner Aden, ...
Eleanor, of New Quay
The schooner Eleanor, of New Quay, Cardiganshire, .was seen on the Constable Bank, off Rhyl, on the evening of the 2nd June, with a signal of distress flying. The tubular Life-boat Morgan was launched as soon as practicable to her assistance...
Henrietta, of Memel
One of the most gal- lant Life-boat services ever rendered on the Scotch coast was performed by the Montrose Life-boats on the 21st Decem- ber, it being attended with the greatest risk to some of the brave Life-boat men.
It...
Portrait of a Coxswain
COXSWAIN JAMES TURPIN, who has been coxswain of the Fowey life-boat since 1959, was previously assistant mechanic from 1948, when he joined the crew, until his present appointment. In 1958 he swam 100 yards through broken water from the...
Category: Articles
Contest of Kent
Margate, Kent - At 6.46 p.m. on 15th August, 1969, it was learnt that red flares had been sighted. Thelife-boat North Foreland (Civil Service No. It) was launched at 7.1 in a moderate north north easterly wind with a corresponding sea. The...
View of the Past:
View of the past: 'Hurry to the Rescue', a watercolour by George Owen dated 1893 and just one of the hundreds of exhibits at Sotheby's maritime exhibition Rule Britannia which runs from January 2 to 29, 1986 (closed January 6).... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Demi Wyn, of Portmadoc
on 21st Jan., saved 8 men from the schooner Demi Wyn, of Portmadoc..
Cymraei, of Beaumaris
on 25th Jan., saved 2 men from the flat Cymraei, of Beaumaris;.
Lucinde of Memel
On the night of the 17th September, 1859, the Prussian brig iMcinde, of Metnel, ran ashove off Mis- ner Coastguard Station on the Suffolk coast.
Intelligence of the same was immediately conveyed to Southwold, with the...