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A Tractor's Summer Bathe

Date: December 1949

Volume: 32

Issue: 352

The drought in 1949 was so severe that the Council at Rhyl would not allow the launching tractor to be washed with fresh water, so her drivers washed her at sea. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

The Old Boathouse

Date: March 1948

Volume: 32

Issue: 345

with the motor life-boal Henry Frederick Swan, on her trolley at the top of the slipway.. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Face In the Cliffs

Date: Summer 1998

Volume: 56

Issue: 545

Reading the Spring 1998 issue of The Lifeboat. I noticed the photograph of Valentia's Severn class lifeboat.. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

The Esthonian Steamer Mina

Date: March 1937

Volume: 30

Issue: 329

Penlee, and Sennen Cove, Cornwall.—On the 21st December the Esthonian steamer Mina, of Parnu, got into difficulties through her rudder shaft breaking.

A strong south-westerly breeze was blowing, with a rough sea. The...

Pulled from the river

Date: Winter 2014

Volume: 61

Issue: 610 Lifeboat Magazine Winter 2014

TOWER | 14 OCTOBER
A woman believed to be suffering from epilepsy was rescued from the River Thames by Tower lifeboat crew. Passengers aboard a nearby boat directed the crew members to the woman. She...

Category: Articles

The Life-Boat the Best of Boats

Date: August 1905

Volume: 19

Issue: 217

" A dirty night, lads, bear a hand, It's blowing dead upon the land.

A ship 's ashore—just off the bar; She's all but gone—lost every spar.

Be lively, lads, and launch the craft; Stand by,...

Category: Poetry

The Sailing Boat Freya

Date: December 1967

Volume: 40

Issue: 422

At 3.30 p.m. on 28th July, 1967, while the second coxswain was returning from Ireland's Eye in his own launch, he saw two flares fired behind the island. He returned to the life-boat and summoned five members of the life-boat crew. The...

News from the Branches

Date: November 1922

Volume: 24

Issue: 277

Newcastle-on-Tyne.

The Annual Meeting was held on 15th March, Lady Montgomery, the Chairman of the Committee, presiding.

The annual report for the year ended 30th September, 1921, -which was pre- sented to...

Category: Branches

The Dory Angelina

Date: Winter 2001

Volume: 58

Issue: 555

Every second counts as three saved from submerged dory The crew of the Whitstable lifeboat had just 17 minutes to save three lives. Weather conditions were so bad, they exceeded the operating limits of the lifeboat, but the crew knew that...

The Caister Station Endangered

Date: February 1927

Volume: 26

Issue: 289

There have been two Life-boats at Caister, on the Norfolk coast, one for seventy, the other for sixty years, and they have the magnificent record of 1709 lives rescued from shipwreck.

These two boats lie on the open sandy...

Category: Articles