LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Storms of Winter. The Return of the Missing Crew
( With an Illustration.") " THERE'S two ends to every trouble, Mary; there's the end that goes downward and drags us to the earth, and there's the end that goes upwards and draws us to...
Category: Articles
A phenomenal day
On a day when the highest wave ever recorded off the western shores of Ireland tipped 20.4m, Fenit lifeboat crew were called into action
On 13 December 2011, with a violent storm force 11...
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Hero, of Maldon
On the 3rd December, during a fresh wind from the N.E., the schooner Hero, of Maldon, anchored in distress on a lee shore. Soon afterward she slipped her cables and took the ground.
The -Duncan life-boat, stationed at...
(Left) Flashback to 1986 When Lifeboats from Ramsgate Margate and Sheerness Took Part In An Evacuation Exercise With a Cross-Channel Ferry
(Left) Flashback To 1986 When Lifeboats From Ramsgate Margate and Sheerness Took Part In An Evacuation Exercise With A Cross-Channel Ferry. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.
Obverse.— Bust of Her Majesty Queen Victoria; beneath, in minute letters, "L. C. Wyon." Double legend, " Royal National Life-boat Institution. Founded in 1824....
Category: Medals
A Sailing Boat (2)
Shoreham Harbour, and Worthing, Sussex.
—On the afternoon of the 30th May, 1939, a sailing boat, with a crew of two, father and son, capsized about two miles off Goring. A moderate N.E. breeze was blowing, with a moderate...
A Sailing Dinghy
A LONG SEARCH IN FOG Filey, and Flamborough, Yorkshire.— At 8.35 in the evening of the 17th of August, 1947, the Filey coastguard reported that a sailing dinghy, in which two men had put out fishing at 2.0 in the afternoon, should have...
(Right) Relief Shows on the Face of a Russian Seaman As He Is Helped Ashore at Lerwick.
(Right) Relief shows on the face of a Russian seaman as he is helped ashore at Lerwick.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Dinghy (5)
Largs, Ayrshire. At 10.5 p.m. on July, 1965, the police reported that a small dinghy with three persons on board was in difficulties a mile and a half south-west of the South Bay. At 10.17 the IRB launched in a strong easterly breeze and...
A Dinghy (6)
St. David's, Pembrokeshire - At 8.40 p.m. on loth July, 1967, a message was received that a sailing dinghy fromForth isle appeared to be in difficulties.
The life-boat Joseph Soar (Civil Service No. 34) was launched at...