LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
People and Places
Harold Harvey Former lifeboat inspector Harold Harvey, the holder of an RNLI Gold Medal for Gallantry, died on 23 August at the age of 71.
He had served the RNLI from 1952 until 1973 and won his Gold Medal for his actions...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the Institution During 1908
lives 1908. Launching. saved.
Jan. 1. 10. - a.m. Schooner William Thompson, of Wexford. Rosslare Harbour Life- boat rendered assistance.
„ 6. 8.40 a.m. Smack Young Bert,, of Lowestoft. Kessingland No. 1...
Category: Services
A Winter Gale
By the REV. THOMAS GUTHRIE, D.D.
THE gale of the 3rd of December last was a destructive hurricane. It would appear, from observations made at Liverpool, that its utmost severity fell on that town and its neighbourhood ;...
Category: Articles
Loss of the "Arctic." Heroic Conduct of An Englishman
HEROIC CONDUCT OF AN ENGLISHMAN.
IT is with the mingled feeling of melancholy pleasure that is peculiar to the contemplation of great acts which have caused the death of the actors of them, that we add to our series of...
Category: Articles
Lights and Lighthouses
HAVING in our last number described the buildings and floating vessels from which beacon lights are exhibited, we have now to give some account of the nature and history of the lights themselves.
At a very remote period,...
Category: Articles
Weather Forecasts and Storm Warnings
IT will have been observed, and doubtless with regret by many of our readers, that in the early part of last month (December, 1866) Government notified their intention of, at least for a season, discontinuing the well-known Storm Warnings to...
Category: Articles
Listings
New lifeboat and station in Burnham-on-Sea It was a sunny day of double celebration in Burnham-on-Sea when a new lifeboat station was opened and a new lifeboat handed over.
The Atlantic 75 lifeboat serving the Somerset town...
Category: Articles
Motor Life-Boats of the Institution. No. 4.—The 35-Feet 6 Inches Self-righting Type
UNTIL 1921 all the Institution's motor life-boats were of a weight which made it necessary that they should either lie afloat or be launched down a slip-way.
In that year, the first boat was sta- tioned at Eastbourne of...
Category: Articles
Jilly Cooper Met Hastings Own Lifeboat Fairlight and Some of Her People: (I to R) Christine Martin Peter Thorpe Mary Shoesmith Bob Shoesmith Colin Green Joe Marti
Jilly Cooper met Hastings own lifeboat, Fairlight, and some of her people: (I. to r.) Christine Martin, Peter Thorpe, Mary Shoesmith, Bob Shoesmith, Colin Green, Joe Martin (coxswain), Doug White (second coxswain), H. 'Sassy' Benton,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Tijl Uilenspiegel (5)
Six lifeboats in search for missing Belgian trawler The new Tyne class lifeboat at Douglas, Isle of Man, had a testing time during her first service, in a search for a missing Belgian trawler which lasted for 11 hours in Force 7 winds and...