LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Accounts of Services by Life-boats (2)
Launches 37. Lives Rescued 12.
MCH. 3RD. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, AND KILMORE, CO. WEXFORD. A the message was received at Rosslare at 4.55 P.M. that an Irish Air Force seaplane had come down in the sea off Carnsore Point. A S.S...
Category: Services
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution
CAISTER, NORFOLK,—About 9 o'clock on the evening of Sunday, the 1st October last, during a strong easterly breeze, a brig struck on the Barber Sands, the sea immediately breaking over her. This being observed from the shore, the Caister...
Category: Services
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Friday, 17th November, 1922.
The Right Hon. The EARL WALDEGRAVE, P.O., in the Chair.
Reported the death of Rear-Admiral Hector B. Stewart, a Member of the Committee of Management for many years.
Category: Committee
Is This An Answer? the Story of the Lifeboat Memorial Book By the Lord Saltoun, MC
A SOCIETY can be very highly organised without being at all civilised. To send a rocket to a distant planet is a wonderful demonstration of a society's technical and scientific capacity, but tells one nothing about its degree of...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat Collecting Box Rescued from the Wreck of the S.S. "Amble."
(On the left is the Rev. T. N. Dunscombe, Hon. Secretary of the Hauxley Branch, and on the right Captain Young, the Amble Pilot.). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Southwold Life-Boats, 1840-1916. By Ernest R. Cooper, Hon Secretary
I REGRET that for many of the earlier years the Southwold Records are but scanty, and it is with some difficulty that I have been able to extract the facts now detailed from such books and documents as have come down to me.
Category: Articles
Lines Suggested By the Inauguration of a Life-Boat
LAUNCH the Life-boat! Heaven, we pray, Smile upon this glorious day.
Grant out Boat may help to save Shipwrecked ciews from watery grave.
When the storm roars loud and high, To the rescue may she fly,...
Category: Poetry
Notes of the Quarter By Patrick Howarth
A LIFEBOAT DISASTER may have been narrowly averted last December. Soon after the Padstow lifeboat had launched late in the evening of December 7, she was struck by three exceptionally heavy seas. A considerable weight of water dropped almost...
Category: Articles
Sunk By the Germans
The Japanese liner Terukfini Mara, off the mouth of the Thames, 21st November, 1939.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, 29th March, 1855. THOMAS BARING, Esq., M.P., in the Chair.
Bead and confirmed the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspondence and the Wreck and Reward...
Category: Committee