LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Aeroplane (24)
FEBRUARY 28TH. - CROMER, AND SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK. A British aeroplane coming towards land was heard to strike the water. Aeroplanes and launches, as well as the life-boats, made a long search but all that was found was one body, by a launch,...
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Cox- swain Robert Cross, of the life-boat station on the Humber. Coxswain Cross joined the crew in 1906, when the station, which was then known as the Spurn station, was under the control of the Humber...
Category: Articles
Brave Enough Stand Up In Front of a Class of 14-Year-Olds
All over the country, often far from the sea, members of a special RNLI team are saving young lives.
They are not launching lifeboats or plunging into rough water - but they need to be brave enough to stand up in front of a... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Don, of Jersey
On the 10th November the Joseph Anstice, the Life- boat of this station, in answer to signals of distress from the schooner Don, of Jersey, put off to her assistance. A very heavy gale was blowing from the north, and darkness coming on soon...
Lifesaving evolution
While our lifesaving purpose has always stayed the same, our rescue map has constantly evolved since 1824 – so what are the latest developments around the coast?
We have 235 established...
Category: Articles
Nicholas Schrager Who Owns the Victorian Thames Motorboat Duchess Doreen and Who Uses Her As a Floating Restaurant Offered His Craft and Cuisine to Molesey Branch for One Evening By Raf
Nicholas Schrager, who owns the Victorian Thames motorboat Duchess Doreen and who uses her as a floating restaurant, offered his craft and cuisine to Molesey branch for one evening. By raffling the 12 places available £270 was earned... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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AUGUST 11TH. - PORT ASKAIG, ARGYLLSHIRE. At the request of the doctor on the Island of Colonsay the motor life-boat Charlotte Elizabeth was launched at 11.45 A.M. in a strong westerly wind, and brought from Colonsay to Islay an expectant...
Shore-Boat Services Rewarded In 1874
Jan. 1.—Voted 81. to 8 men for putting off in the yawl Bravo, of Yarmouth, during a strong gale from the W. on the 29th Nov., and saving the crew of 6 men of the brig Erae, of Sunderland. The vessel had stranded on the Scroby Sand, and her...
Category: Articles
Heart and soul
In 1946, the lifeboat station on Valentia Island reopened after more than 50 years. ‘I was just 3 years old,’ remembers Dick. ‘Sitting high on my daddy’s shoulders, the vision of the lifeboat and the knowledge that its volunteer crew were...
Category: Articles
Jean
TWO SAVED AFTER MOTOR BOAT STRIKES ROCK Coverack, Cornwall. At 4.30 p.m. on Tuesday the 16th of July, 1963, the second coxswain and the mechanic told the honorary secretary that a motor boat had run ashore on rocks half a mile south-west of...