LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Clifford's Improved Method of Lowering Boats at Sea
IT is now two years since, in conjunction with other plans, we reviewed this novel and ingenious mode of lowering boats, and we then emphatically declared our opinion as to its value, and expressed our hope that it might meet with that...
Category: Articles
Restoration of the Apparently Drowned
WE have much pleasure in publishing the following letter from Dr. PAGET-BLAKE, of Torquay, which shows the importance of retaining in the new Directions of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION a portion of Dr. MARSHALL HALL'S...
Category: Correspondence
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Father and son trapped in cave Adifficult and dangerous service by Port Isaac's D class inshore lifeboat has led to the award of the RNLI's Thanks on Vellum to her helmsman Kevin Dingle and to a crew member, Mike Edkins.
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The S.S Hawkwood (1)
GOLD MEDAL SERVICE AT HARTLEPOOL JANUARY 26TH. - HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM, AND TEESMOUTH, YORKSHIRE. At 6.55 in the morning word came from the coastguard that he had seen rockets from a vessel off Seaton Carew. The life-boat was called out at once...
Disaster at Arbroath
ON the night of the 26th of October, 1953, the Arbroath life-boat Robert Lindsay and the Anstruther life-boat James and Ruby Jackson were both launched in answer to distress rockets which had been seen three miles east of...
Category: Services
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution
[WE resume our Reports, which bad been unavoidably postponed, of the Services of the Life-boats of the Institution.] TENET, :SOUTH WALES.—On the 27th October, 1867, during a strong gale of wind, the Florence life-boat put off, in reply to...
Category: Services
Lifeboat Services
The Lifeboat Tyne class 47-026 Garstde The Crew Vellum Coxswain Malcolm Gray for his 'tenacity, determination and seamanship... Any miscalculation could have resulted in the lifeboat being beached or grounded on the rocks or even...
Category: Services
Memories of the Sea and the Life-Boat Service
It was intended to resume the series of " Honorary Workers of the Institution," in which twelve articles have already been published, the last appearing in TheLifeboat for August, 1927 —with an article on the work of Mr. Ernest...
Category: Articles
From Left to Right: Second Coxswain Ernest Guy (St. Mary's), Motor Mechanic William Burrow (St. Mary's), Coxswain Dermot Walsh (Valentia), Coxswain Stephen Whittle (Dunmore East), Crew M
From left to right: Second Coxswain Ernest Guy (St. Mary's), Motor Mechanic William Burrow (St. Mary's), Coxswain Dermot Walsh (Valentia), Coxswain Stephen Whittle (Dunmore East), Crew Member David Brunton (Dunbar), Coxswain Alfred... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Gull
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—In the morning of the 8th of August, 1948, the life-boat Rosa Woodd and Phyllis Lunn rescued six lives from the yacht Gull, off Newhaven.-—-Rewards, silver second-service clasp to the coxswain, vellums to...