LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Captain William Watts-Williams, the coxswain of the St. David's life-boat. Captain Watts-Williams first went to sea at the age of thirteen, forty-nine years ago, and after a long and varied career,...
Category: Articles
Covent Garden, of Lowestoft
OCTOBER 2ND. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.
At two in the afternoon the lifeboat coxswain saw a vessel aground on the Inner Newcombe Shoal. She refloated, grounded again, and remained fast. The tide was ebbing, and a moderate sea...
2012 - the year of the floods
RNLI lifeboats launched more than 8,000 times in 2012 in a year of poor weather and heavy rainfall. Despite the weather, our lifeguards helped more than 16,000 people.
Meanwhile, the RNLI Flood Rescue Team had their...
Category: Articles
Ercole, of Naples
On the 25th Jan. the brig ! Ercole, of Naples, was descried off St.Anne's Head in a distressed and (in the i judgment of the crew) hopeless condition ; they haying, in consequence of her dis- I abled state, anchored their vessel on a...
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution—(continued.)
RYE, SUSSEX. — At daybreak on the 24th October, 1872, the Urgent, a barge, becoming unnavigable when off Jury's Gap, hoisted signals of distress, and commenced firing minute guns. It was blowing hard from the S.S.W., and a heavy sea was...
Category: Services
Duke of Northumberland's Life-Boat Essay Competition, 1932
THE Duke of Northumberland's Life- boat Essay Competition was held this year for the twelfth time. The number of schools taking part in the competition was 2,249, as compared with 2,354 in 1931. The number of schools which took part in...
Category: Articles
Ready for the 12 1/2-Ton Lifeboat to Gather Speed Down Over the Skids and Hit the Sea
. . . ready for the 12 '/2-ton lifeboat to gather speed down over the skids and hit the sea.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Posing for the Camera Are the 45 New Members of Storm Force
Posing for the camera are the 45 new members of Storm Force, all pupils at St Patrick's Primary School, Troon, Scotland. They are pictured with the coxswain of the local lifeboat, Ian Johnson (back row, left), the second coxswain Tom... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mr. J. J. Lines, of Newhaven
Mr. J. J. Lines, of Newhaven, who died on 5th February, 1938, had retired from the honorary secretaryship of the Newhaven station in 1936. He had then been its honorary secretary for thirty-five years. Mr. Lines was awarded the...
Category: Obituaries
New D Class Named at Moelfre
Crowds flocked to Moelfre lifeboat station on 29 August to witness the naming and dedication of the station's new D class lifeboat.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs