LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

INDIAN SHIP AGROUND Hartlepool, Co. Durham. At 10.15 a.m. on i4th March, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a vessel was ashore at Longscar. There was a full gale from the south-east with a rough sea. The crew...

Tour takes in six stations His Royal Highness the Duke of Kent, the RNLI's president, visited six Essex coast lifeboat stations in July, meeting lifeboat crew members and their families, station officials and members of the...

Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—At 9.50 on the morning of the 7th of April, 1954, the Commissioners of Irish Lights rang up and asked if the life-boat would land a sick man fromthe Blackwater lightvessel. The Com- missioners had no boat...

THE portrait on the cover is of Holden 'N. Sheader, who has been the motor mechanic at the Scarborough station for 28 years. On the 9th of December, 1951, he won the Institution's thanks on vellum for his part in the service to the...

A crew member urges the Severn class Lifeboat towards her destination, a burning tanker apparently on the horizon. Just metres away, the crew of an Atlantic 75 lifeboat works hard to right their capsized vessel It sounds like a scene...

LIGHTVESSEL CREWMAN BROUGHT ASHORE Ramsgate, Kent. At 4.22 a.m. on Monday the 1st of July, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a member of the crew of the North Goodwin lightvessel was very ill. At 4.40 the life-boat...

WE publish the portrait of the late Mr. Thomas Home, of Solihull, Warwick. This " fine old English gentleman" took the greatest interest in the Life-boat cause, and, by his will, bequeathed one-third of the residue of his estate...

The New Brighton Motor 'Life-boat on her way to the EmiU Delmat..