LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
To the Editor
SIR,—As there have been so many changes of late years in all that is connected with sailors and ships, the loss of life at sea is a subject well worth considering during what may be termed the experimental period. The loss is not so great...
Category: Correspondence
The Weather of 1873
THE public have to thank Dr. ALLNATT, of Frant, for an excellent review of the weather of the past twelve months. It is always pleasant to be able to correct one's vague recollections by an actual record; and there is, perhaps, no...
Category: Articles
The Fraserburgh Inquiry
A FORMAL investigation under the Merchant Shipping Act of 1894 was held at the Sheriff Court House, Aberdeen, from 5th to 12th October, 1970, into the circumstances attending the capsizing of the Fraserburgh life-boat The Duchess of Kent...
Category: Articles
Notes of the Quarter
In 1965 the life-boat service had by far its busiest year since the Institution was founded in 1824. There were 1,038 launches by life-boats on service and 462 by inshore rescue boats. Life-boats saved the lives of 562 people and IRBs...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat House
The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...
Category: Articles
The Varne Lightvessel
Dover, Kent - On 2nd December, 1966, the Dover life-boat Southern Africarescued seven men from the Varne lightvessel.
A full account of this service, for which a special award was made to the coxswain and crew, appears on...
Left - the Flower Bed,
Left - this flower bed, in the shape of an Atlantic lifeboat, was created on a roundabout in Sheerness. The three dimensional display was painstakingly created by inmates of Standford Hill and E/mey prisons for the local ladies guild.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Life-Boat House
The boats of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION and all belonging to them are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...
Category: Articles
The Coningbeg Lightvessel
SICK MAN LANDED At 11.40 a.m. on 2ist May, 1965, the honorary secretary received a message that there was a sick man on board the Coningbeg light-vessel. The life-boat Ann Isabella Pyemont was launched on the ebbing tide at 11.55. There was...
The Fishing Launch Lively
Mallaig, Inverness-shire - At 12.5 a.m. on 4th April, 1967, it was learned that the fishing launch Lively was overdue.
The life-boat E. M. M. Gordon Cubbin was launched at 12.25 in a gentle westerly breeze. It was one hour...