LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Bravest Deeds of 1952
THE Maud Smith reward in memory of John, Seventh Earl of Hardwicke, for the bravest act of life-saving of the year by a life-boatman was awarded to Coxswain Douglas Kirk- aldie, of Ramsgate, for his courage on the 20th of August, 1952, in...
Category: Awards
Osterling
Swanage, Dorset.—About 3.23 on the afternoon of the 10th of September, 1954, the coastguard rang to say that the S.S. Eptanissos, of Ithaka, had wirelessed that she had found a yacht in difficulties two miles south-east of Bournemouth and...
1886: the Wreck of the Mexico By Frank Kilroy
ON THE NIGHT of December 9, 1886, the German barque Mexico, bound from Liverpool for Guayaquil, Ecuador, with a general cargo and a crew of 12, was wrecked in the Ribble Estuary on the north west coast of England.
Three...
Category: Articles
The Harkaway and a Lugger
WORTHING.—On the 1st June, in consequence of a sudden gale from S.W., a very heavy sea was set up on the coast about Worthing, and a number of fishing-boats at anchor were placed in great peril—some drove from their anchors; the Life-boat...
Putting Out to the Rescue
The Anstruther motor life-boat going to the help of fishing boats on 21st February, 1935. - View image in PDF
(See page 457 ). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The German Life-Boat Service
IT is with great pleasure we have to record a visit from Captain PFEIFER, the Chief Inspector of the German Life-boat Service, or, as it is called in Germany, " Deutsche Gesellschaft zur Rettung Schiffbriichiger." Captain PFEIFER...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat Saturday Fund
THE numerous enthusiastic bands of workers on behalf of the Life-boat Satur- day Fund have, throughout the United Kingdom, had exceptional obstacles and difficulties to deal with this year, as the result of the multitudinous appeals, in...
Category: Articles
10 years on the beaches
The RNLI prides itself on a long lifesaving tradition but, in order to save more lives, it is alert to changes in how people use the sea
People still go to sea for a living. But by the year...
Category: Articles
The Rowing Fishing Boat Barbara
At about 3.30 P.M. on the 18th October information came that a fishing boat was in distress to the north-east of Llandudno Bay. A strong westerly breeze was blowing, with a rough sea.
The motor life-boat Thomas and Annie...
How Children Regard the R.N.L.I.
IN the course of a year the R.N.L.I. receives hundreds of letters and drawings from children in praise of the life-boat service. Quite a few of the writers send donations to the Institution, and from time to time extracts from their letters...
Category: Articles