LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
War and the Life-Boat Service
THE War, the greatest in which a nation has ever been involved, has entirely absorbed public interest, and the purses which have been so generously opened to the innumerable appeals in connexion with the War have, almost of necessity, been...
Category: Articles
Thomas, of Poole
Again, on the 15th Jan., 1869, this life- boat put off, during a W.N.W. gale, and in j a very heavy sea, to the brigantine Thomas, < of Poole, which was near Stepper Point in | imminent danger. On arriving alongside, it was found she...
Elizabeth, of Goole
SKEGNESS.—On the 14th April, at 8.30 A.M., the ketch Elizabeth, of Goole, while on a voyage from London to Gainsbro', was observed off this station in a disabled state, with signal of distress flying, and the crew in the rigging. A gale,...
Brownies Were By Far the Greatest Moneyspinners In the Guide Friendship Fund Lifeboat Project: 1St.Woodseaves Brownies Sent In £33 After a Sponsored Skip — to Reac
Brownies were by far the greatest moneyspinners in the Guide Friendship Fund lifeboat project: 1st Woodseaves Brownies sent in £33 after a sponsored skip — to reach their target, each of 24 girls had to make 50... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Life-Boat
The following drawings show the general outline and principal fittings of the different types of Life-boats used in the Institution's service. Figure 1 gives the profile or broadside view. Fig. 2 the " plan " or deck view. Fig....
Category: Articles
Mr Punch on the Life-Boat Service
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 154 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to July 31st, 1950 - 76,938 Mr. Punch on the Life-boat Service This article by Mr. P. R....
Category: Articles
Dee Gypsy
IRB TRANSFERRED CREW Blackpool, Lancashire. At 12.40 a.m.
on 28th August, 1965, the police told the honorary secretary that a small yacht was firing distress flares approximately \ mile offshore near the South Pier. At one...
The S.S. Taycraig
Penlee, Cornwall.—On the 27th January the s.s. Taycraig was wrecked in Mount's Bay, and her crew of nine were rescued by the Penlee motor lifelifeboat W and S.—Rewards, bronze medal, and an increase in the usual money awards on the...
Seven Ships including the Orminster and the Browning
GOLD MEDAL SERVICE AT NEWCASTLE JANUARY 21ST. - NEWCASTLE, AND CLOUGHEY, CO. DOWN. At 12.45 in the morning a message came to Cloughey from the coastguard that a steamer was ashore half a mile off Ballyquinton, and at 1.40 the life-boat...
The S.S. Empire Chamois
STANDING BY 7,000-TON STEAMER Plymouth, Devon.—At 4.45 in the afternoon of the 5th of April, 1947, the Rame Head coastguard reported that a vessel needed help three miles west of Rame Head. A moderate south-south- west gale was blowing, with...