LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Nautilus
MONTROSE, N.B.—At about 10 A.M., on the 22nd November, a strong E.S.E. wind sprang up, and the sea became very heavy. About thirty of the Ferryden fishing boats had proceeded to sea earlier in the morning, and several of them ran back, some...
The Life-Boat Saturday Fund
A further substantial increase in the receipts and a further satisfactory decrease in the working expenses! This is the highly gratifying report supplied by the Central Committee of the Life-boat Saturday Fund as the result of their labours...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Crestville
Port Erin, and Port St. Mary, Isle of Man.—About 5.35 on the afternoon of the 27th of May, 1956, a man informed the coxswain that he had seen from Cradder Head a steamer aground on the Calf of Man. At 5.55 the life-boat Matthew Simpson was...
The Crew of the "Amis Reunis."
The Crew of the Amis Reunis. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
New Ways of Raising Money
MRS. BOUTWOOD, honorary secretary of the Stanmore branch, has been holding gramophone evenings for young people, contributions for the entertainment being given to the Life- boat Service.
An unusual dance for those in their...
Category: Donations
The S.S. Chamois
WINTEETON, NORFOLK.—The look-out man having observed lights on the 27th February, 1901, the crew of the Lifeboat Margaret were summoned. The nature of the lights could not be discerned and therefore it was decided to launch the Life-boat in...
The S.S. Baroi
PORTHDINLLAEN.—On the 10th April, at 9.30 P.M., during a heavy gale from E.S.E., the s.s. Baroi, of Newcastle, anchored outside the proper roadstead in Porthdinllaen Bay. The wind afterwards shifted to E.N.E., and a heavier sea sprung up,...
The S.S. Sea Venture
OCT. 20TH. - LERWICK, SHETLANDS.
At 2.10 P.M. a message was received from the senior naval officer that the S.S. Sea Venture, of London, had been sunk by enemy action fifteen to twenty miles east of Flugga, and that the...
The Launch of an Oil Rig, Sovereign Explorer
Severely injured NEW BRIGHTON'S Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable lifeboat, Blenwatch, manned by Helmsman Clifford Downing and Crew Members Francis Brereton and F.
Jones, had launched at 1100 on Tuesday December 6, 1983, and...
Wading into the unknown
When a 6-year-old girl died of polio after swimming at a sewage-contaminated beach, her grieving parents sparked a campaign that would leave a lasting public legacy
Caroline Wakefield died...
Category: Articles