LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Maid of Tire & Oxalis
On the same day the Life-boat Robin Hood of Nottingham, stationed at Boulmer, was called out on two occasions, but the first time, when the schooner Maid of Tire, of Inverness, struck and sunk on the North Steel rocks the services of the...
The Late George Lyall, Esq.
IT is again our painful duty to record the death of another old and tried friend, and Member of the Committee of Management, of the Royal National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck, in the person of the late GEORGE...
Category: Obituaries
In Memory of the Life-Boats at Dunkirk
THE Institution has received over £9 from brother officers and friends of the late Major Charles Lawless Saunders, R.A.S.C. Those gifts were sent, in place of flowers for his funeral, at his own request, in gratitude to the Life-boat...
Category: Donations
Why Is a Ship Always a She, and Why Is She Invariably Launched With Ceremony and Usually the Traditional Bottle of Champagne (Arrowed)?
Why is a ship always a she, and why is she invariably launched with ceremony and usually the traditional bottle of champagne (arrowed)?. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Duke of Kent Meets Torbay Lifeboat Crew Members
The Duke of Kent meets Torbay lifeboat crew members Photo: Al Macphee @ Miracle. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Terry Waite and the Crew of Harwich Lifeboat.
Terry Waite and the crew of Harwich lifeboat. Photo: Orwell Photography. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Choice, of Hull
Early on the morning of the 21st May, the smack Choice, of Hull, drove from her anchor at the entrance of the harbour, and fired a gun.
as a signal of distress. The Scarborough life-boat was immediately launched, and took...
Heikendorf, of Kiel
On I2th December, 1966, the Aberdeen life-boat Ramsay-Dyce took out a doctor to the German trawler Heikendorf of Kiel. A full account of this service, for which a special award was made to Doctor J. Leiper^ appears on page 145..
Maya, of Beirut
On 1st December, 1966, the Swanage life-boat R.L.P. landed a sick man from the motor vessel Maya of Beirut. A full account of this service, for which a special award was made to Doctor D. I. Aitken, appears on page 144..
The American Steamer S.S. Wakulla, of Los Angeles
AT 11.30 on the morning of the 28th August, 1919, during a strong southerly gale with a very heavy sea and thick rain, the Bembridge Life-boat was launched to the help of an American steamer, the s.s. Wakulla, of Los Angeles, which had...