LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution
PEEL, ISLE OF MAN.—On the morning of the 13th Dec., 1887, a gale, which had been blowing strongly from the S.E., suddenly shifted to the S.W., and two schooners, the Clyde and the Harbinger, of Belfast, coal laden, which were riding at...
Category: Services
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
ACKERGILL, CAITHNESS-SHIRE. — A telegram having been received on the 2nd Jan., 1903, from Keiss Village, that a vessel had run aground on the sands, the Life-boat Jonathan Marshall, Sheffield, was launched shortly after 11 A.M., and...
Category: Services
The Life-Boat
Wildly roared the rolling billows, Surging waves rose high o'erhead; Helpless, in that hour of danger, On—the gallant vessel sped.
Sails were riven, masts were broken, By the tempest's fearful power ; Fruitless...
Category: Poetry
Lifeboat Services
Scotland North Division Propeller fouled AT 1050 on -Monday June 25, 1984, Pentland Coastguard contacted Wick lifeboat station's deputy launching authority with the news that a salmon coble was in difficulties off Ackergill. At 1100 the...
Category: Services
Girvan: the 33Ft Brede Lifeboat Philip Vaux at Her Naming on June 25
Girvan: The 33ft Brede lifeboat Philip Vaux at her naming on June 25.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Canoes
Canoeists stranded THE WEATHER was cloudy, there was a fresh south-westerly breeze, force 5, and slight seas when Dover coastguard contacted the honorary secretary of Walmer lifeboat station on the afternoon of Sunday June 9, 1985. Two...
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution—continued
BRIGHSTONE GRANGE, ISLE OF WIGHT.— The Worcester Cadet Life-boat was launched at 8.20 P.M. on the 3rd January, 1884, signal guns of distress having been heard in the direction of the " Atherfield Ledge" rocks during a thick fog and...
Category: Services
New Inventions
CUNNINGHAM'S Patent Mode of reefing Topsails from the Deck.—Most persons, even those who are not sailors by profession, are aware that the operation of reefing topsails is one of the most important on board a ship. By its means the...
Category: Articles
Formby Lifeboat Station 1776-1919 By Barbara and Reginald Yorke
UNTIL RECENT TIMES the approaches to the Port of Liverpool were quite hazardous. The difficulties stemmed from the fact that seaward of the northern extremity of the Wirral peninsula the estuary suddenly opens out to become very shallow for...
Category: Articles
Just Seconds to Spare As Cleethorpe's D Class Lifeboat Races Through the Finishing Gate
Just seconds to spare as Cleethorpe's D class lifeboat races through the finishing gate. - View image in PDF
(Photo courtesy Grimsby Evening Telegraph). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs