LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Centenary of the Danish Life-Boat Service
THE Danish Life-boat Service com- pleted its first hundred years on March 26th, 1952. In these hundred years it has rescued 12,414 lives at the cost of 59 lives of its life-boatmen.
The Institution sent it the following...
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North Britain, of Southampton
.—On the after- noon of the 6th December, information was received here that a large vessel was in a very perilous position in the bay, and the life-boat Richard Lewis, at Penzance, was at once got in readiness, in case her services should...
Anna, of New York
Soon after midnight of the 29th January the night signals of dis- tress of a vessel on the North Sand End, Goodwin Sands, were observed. It was blowing hard from the N.E. at the time.
The Life-boat Samuel Morrison Collins...
The Princess Royal at the Helm of Lymington's Atlantic 21
The Princess Royal at the helm of Lymington's Atlantic 21 class lifeboat with Storm Force's Leading Hand Peter Phillips in his custon-made bump cap seated behind her.. - View image in PDF
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The Launch of the Selsey Motor Life-Boat
(Note the Trolley, at the Head of die Slipway, by means of which the Boat is run along on Rail; from the Boat-house.). - View image in PDF
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Portrait on the Cover
THE photograph on the cover is of Coxswain Frederick Palmer of Wey- mouth, who first joined the Weymouth crew in 1926. Since then Weymouth life-boats have been launched on service 240 times and have rescued 180 lives.
He...
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Star of Meavagh
Youghal, Co. Cork.—At 6.30 on the evening of the 10th of August, 1957, the fishing vessel Star of Meavagh, of Skibbereen, skippered by the honorary secretary, had not arrived in the har- bour as expected. The honorary sec- retary's wife,...
The Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Cox- swain Henry G. Blogg, of Cromer. He became a member of the Cromer crew in January, 1894, at the age of eighteen.
In 1902 he was appointed second cox- swain, and in 1909 coxswain. In 1917...
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I invented the lifeboat!
After 186 years of innovation, the RNLI is recognised internationally as a leader in lifeboat design and development. So why does the title ‘lifeboat inventor’ and the achievements of three 18th-century gentlemen still cause controversy and...
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Hope, of Beaumaris
On the 5th June, whilst the life-boat on this station was returning after her quarterly exercise, the crew observed the schooner Hope, of Beau- maris, riding at anchor in a very perilous position in Cymmuran Bay. There was a gale of wind...