LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Life-Boat Service and the Shipping Companies
READERS of The Life-Boat will not need to be reminded of the efforts which the Institution has made during the last two years to call attention to the failure of the shipping community of Great Britain to give adequate support to the...
Category: Articles
Caroline Elizabeth, of London
On the following night the same life-boat again put off, in reply to signals of distress, and succeeded in saving the crew, consisting of 13 men, from the barque Caroline Eliza- beth, of London, which had stranded on the South Steel rocks...
The S.S. Altyre
Shortly after midnight on the 17th-18th January signals of distress were seen burning in the direction of the South Barber Sands.
As soon as it was possible the No. 1 boat Covent Garden was launched and found the S.S....
When the Classroom Meets the Sea
'My thoughts about the beach have changed. I used to think it was just a fun place to be but now I know there are hidden dangers as well.' These are the words of a teenager from inner London who had the chance to take part in one of...
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Mrs. Longair, of Dundee
By the death on the 15th July of Mrs. Longair, wife of ex-Lord Provost Longair, of Dundee, in her 84th year, the Institution has lost one of its oldest and most valued workers in Scotland.
Her interest in the Life-boat...
Category: Obituaries
A Convoy of Ships
AUGUST 8TH. - YARMOUTH, ISLE OF WIGHT. A convoy of ships had been attacked from the air and some of them had been sunk. The life-boat. put out with the honorary secretary of the station, a naval surgeon and a policeman on board, but a...
27 Months of War.
In the first 27 months of war life-boats have rescued 4325 lives. They have rescued more lives in these 27 months than in the last twelve years of peace..
Category: Articles
Agathe Scheibert, of Stettin
Ten days afterwards the Lcetitia life- boat went out in tow of the steam-tug Rainbow, and succeeded in rescuing the master and crew of the schooner Agathe Scheibert, of Stettin, which was wrecked on the Holm Sand during a strong N.E....
Seventeenth of May
On the 3rd Feb., during an easterly gale, the Job Uindley Life-boat on this station was launched on observing the wreck of the Nor- wegian schooner Seventeenth of May, from which she was successful in saving 7 men..
Life-boat Dinner at the Authors' Club
THE first of the Life-boat Centenary celebrations in London was a dinner at the Authors' Club on 29th January, at which Mr. George F. Shee, M.A., the Secretary of the Institution, an old mem- ber of the Club, presided, and at which Sir...
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