LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Notre Dame de Montligeon, of Boulogne
NOVEMBER 10TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE. The steam trawler Notre Dame de Montligeon, of Boulogne, had gone aground, but refloated without help. - Paid permanent crew.
The Danish Vessel Zita
Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 6 a.m.
on 20th November, 1965, a request was received from the Danish vessel Zita for a tow as her engines had broken down. The life-boat Jesse Lumb was launched at 6.45 in a gentle...
After Her Naming and a Service of Dedication on Sunday July 19
After her naming and a service of dedication on Sunday July 19, New Brighton's new Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable lifeboat is towed across the beach ready for launching. She is one of the Atlantics generously provided by Fred Olsen Lines... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Riders of the storm – the story of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution
Riders of the storm – the story of the Royal National
Lifeboat Institution
by Ian Cameron
Review by Carol Waterkeyn
This is a new edition of the hardback book published in...
Category: Articles
Help of Navy and Air Force.
The Navy and Air Force have been no less generous. During 1940 the Navy contributed £2099, nearly five times as much as in 1939. The appeal to the Air Force was made in September 1940. Up to the end of February 1941 the contributions...
Category: Articles
Thousands of Tablers Came to Newhaven to Be Present at the Naming of the 44' Waveney Lifeboat Louis Marchesi of Round Table They Brought Their Families With The
photographs by courtesy of Peter Hadfield Thousands of Tablers came to Newhaven to be present at the naming of the 44' Waveney lifeboat Louis Marchesi of Round Table. They brought their families with them and the local Table, acting as... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Launching of the Life-Boat
When wild winds howl along the deep, And bid the ocean mountains rise To thunder on White Albion's steep The vengeance of her native skies, What cheers the storm-tossed mariners, Wrecked on her rock-bound shore, And nerves their hearts...
Category: Poetry
Scholarships for Sons of Life-Boatmen
THE Outward Bound Sea School, at Aberdovey, which runs four-weekly courses in seamanship and some other out-of-door subjects for boys from fifteen to eighteen and a half years old, offered the Institution in March of this year six King...
Category: Articles
Ex-Coxswain Evan Hughes, of Criccieth
Ex-Coxswain Evan Hughes, of Criccieth.
Ex-Coxswain Evan Hughes, of Criccieth, died on 31st October at the age of seventy. He had served in the Criccieth Life-boat for some forty years.
From 1890 to 1901 he...
Category: Obituaries
The American Steamer George Vickers, of Baltimore
MARCH 26TH. - THE MUMBLES, GLAMORGANSHIRE.
At 2.45 in the morning the coastguard reported that the American steamer George Vickers, of Baltimore, was asking for a boat to land two of her crew, who were seriously ill. As no...