LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Amethyst
JANUARY 10TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT.
At 8.10 in the morning information was received from the pier that a steamer was in danger of grounding in Pegwell Bay, and the motor life-boat Prudential was launched at 8.25. A moderate...
Beating the Blowfish
Beating the Blowfish
By Emma Pontin
Review by
Julie Maskell
Beating the Blowfish is the real-life account of one woman’s battle with breast cancer while continuing her career as a...
Category: Articles
The Crosby Lightship
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 11.38 A.M. on the 8th March, 1939, the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board reported that the Crosby Lightship was adrift.
A heavy W.N.W. gale was blowing, with a very rough sea and rain squalls. The No...
Out on a shout
What do you understand by the term ‘shout’ in lifeboating? Is it simply the launch or the entire rescue mission? Is it derived literally from the call to action and who used it first – volunteeers or the mass media? Searching the newly...
Category: Articles
The Horsa
ST. MARY'S, SCILLY ISLANDS.—A message was received by telephone from the coastguard station at St. Martin's, reporting that a full-rigged ship was ashore, at about 10.30 on the morning of the 4th April. The Life-boat Henry Dundas was...
The S.S. Araucania
Late on the night of the 25th October the s.a.
Araucania of Glasgow stranded on the rooks known as the " Inches," outside Ardrossan harbour. The vessel had left dock with a cargo of coals for Genoa, and broke down...
A Silver Medal Service By the Newburgh Life-Boat
A VERY fine service in which the crew of the Newburgh Life-boat and men of H.M. Destroyers Vampire and Vendetta played a gallant part, took place on October 19th, the anniversary of the wreck of the Hopelyn last year, off Belhelvie, near...
Category: Medals
The S.S. Eldon Park
FEBRUARY 7TH. - THE MUMBLES, GLAMORGANSHIRE. At 1.27 A.M. the coastguard at The Mumbles telephoned that.
a vessel was ashore at Port Eynon and was burning distress signals. A strong S.E.
breeze was blowing...
A Picture of the Mudeford Ilb Returning With a 'survivor' on the Occasion of the Official Opening of the Ilb House on Mudeford Quay the Ilb House Was Built With Funds Do
by courtesy of S. M. Wheatley A picture of the Mudeford ILB returning with a 'survivor' on the occasion of the official opening of the ILB house on Mudeford quay. The ILB house was built with funds donated by Christchurch Round Table... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Late Mr. Edgar H. Johnson, F.C.I.S.
ANOTHER heavy loss has fallen on the Institution by the death of Mr. Edgar H.
Johnson, F.C.I.S., of Manchester, the District Organising Secretary for the North of England.
He was taken ill last spring,...
Category: Obituaries