LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Disaster at St. Ives. Seven Life-Boatmen Lost
THREE minutes before two in the morn- ing of 23rd January. 1939, the honorary secretary of the St. Ives life-boat station was rung up by the district officer of coastguard, who told him that a vessel was in a dangerous position two miles N.N...
Category: Services
The S.S.Jankiki
Walmer, and Ramsgate, Kent. — At 6.42 in the morning of the 30th of March, 1952, the Deal coastguard tele- phoned to the Walmer life-boat station a wireless message from the S.S.
Jankiki, of Panama, that she was aground...
Safety at Sea With Pyrotechnics-Part 1 Choosing the Right Distress Signals
WITH the present boom in the yachting and boating industry rising steadily each year, as more and more people seek and enjoy pleasurable pastimes afloat, there is also a growing anxiety from the marine rescue associations generally about the...
Category: Articles
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain Patrick Sliney, of Ballycotton, Cork.
He served as second coxswain from 1911 until 1922, and since 1922 he has been coxswain, so that he has been an officer of the life-boat for...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Cerne
Whitby, Yorkshire. — At 5.15 in the morning of the 13th of June, 1948, during a thick fog, information was re- ceived that a steamer was on the rocks to the south of the East Pier, and the No. 1 motor life-boat Mary Ann Hep- worth was...
The S.S. Lesrix
JANUARY 26TH. - NEWBURGH, AND ABERDEEN, ABERDEENSHIRE. On the 25th January a very heavy storm of wind and snow broke on the coast. All roads and railways became blocked with snow, making traffic impossible, and telephone wires were broken....
Spenanger
OCTOBER 29TH - 30TH. - PORT ST. MARY, ISLE OF MAN. The laden Norwegian tanker Spenanger, of 7,248 tons, bound from Milford to the Clyde with an escort, got off her course and ran on the Carrick Rock, in Port St. Mary Bay. The weather was...
Peep Into the Past
A fascinating glimpse of the Lifeboat archives nto the pasL 100 years ago The spring 1906 edition of the then Life-boat Journal reported there was a large demand for the barometers that the RNLI offered to professional mariners at a reduced...
Category: Articles
Sale Now On!
A look behind the scenes at RNLI (Sales), the company which raises funds for the lifeboat service, and is also responsible for perhaps the most visible of the RNLI's images - its gifts and souvenirsWeall knowabout RNLI (Sales) don't...
Category: Articles
Life-Boats Made An Extensive Search for Survivors from the Motor Cruiser Darlwin Which Disappeared With Little Trace Off the South West Coast In July, 1966
Life-boats made an extensive search for survivors from the motor cruiser Dor/win which disappeared with little trace off the south west coast in July, 1966. Here the Falmouth life-boat is shown returning with flag at half-mast, with the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs