LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Wreck of the "Schiller."
ON Friday, the 7th May last, occurred another of those fearful calamities which, like the foundering of the London and the Northfleet, ever and anon startle the whole British community, and serve to remind us of the uncertainty and...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat
ONE night in Autumn, lately past, remembered by a chilly blast, That swept o'er all the country wide, While sitting at the warm fireside, I mused on all the trials sore, Of Mariners around our shore; As day by day, the papers tell,...
Category: Poetry
Susilla (1)
High and dry on the Solway Firth From the shifting sand and mud banks of the Solway Firth, the grounded yacht Susiila radioed for help. It took a joint service by Workington and Silloth Lifeboats to locate the yacht and find a way to reach...
An Aeroplane (25)
OCT. 18TH. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. An aeroplane was reported to hare fallen into the sea in flames, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £15 7s. 6d..
Waiting for Rescue By J D Sleightholme
This two-part article, published earlier this year in Yachting Monthly and reproduced here by kind permission of the editor, Andrew Bray, and the author, takes a look at rescues from a yachtsman's point of view and asks how crews should...
Category: Articles
Michael Lenegham BEM
Michael Lenegham BEM, coxswain of Newcastle, Co. Down lifeboat for 26 years and a lifeboatman for more than 40 years. He served as second coxwain from 1950 until 1961 before taking over as coxwain, having first joined the crew in 1946, aged...
Category: Obituaries
(Left) the New 52Ft Arun Class Relief Lifeboat 52-22 During Her Naming Ceremony at Poole
(Left) The new 52ft Arun class relief lifeboat 52-22 during her naming ceremony at Poole depot; in attendance, lying alongside the quay, is the new Waveney lifeboat which has now gone on station at Blyth.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Bun Brosna
Galway Bay. At 10.15 a-m- on 3fd September, 1965, Valentia Radio informed the honorary secretary that a fishing vessel was in distress half a mile south of North Aran lighthouse. There was a strong north-westerly breeze with a rough sea. The...
The Thurso Caithness Life-Boat Pentland (Civil Service No 31) Heading for Scrabster on the North Coast of Scotland With the Upturned Longhope Orkney Life-Boat TGB
The Thurso, Caithness, life-boat Pent/and (Civil Service No. 31) heading for Scrabster on the north coast of Scotland with the upturned Longhope, Orkney, life-boat T.G.B. in tow. The photograph was taken on 18th March, 1969, by a Shackleton... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Manx tales
The Isle of Man is an unusual location whose community is inextricably linked to the sea – and the RNLI
Set in the midst of the Irish Sea, encircled by all five nations of the UK and RoI, the Isle of Man (IoM) is actually...
Category: Articles