LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Hope in the Great War
'SIR, As I was an eyewitness of them, I think it may be of interest to you to have a narrative of the events which led up to – what I have no hesitation in calling – one of the most gallant rescues in the annals of the...
Category: Articles
The Sailing Catamaran Santa Maria
Walmer, Kent. At 3.15 on the after- noon of the 25th of April, 1959, the coxswain was informed that a catamaran with three people on board had capsized. He saw the casualty about four hundred yards off the life-boat house, and at 3.30 the...
In Memory of the Men of the Mumbles
APRIL the 23rd was the first anniversary of the loss of the life-boat at The Mumbles with all her crew, and on that day the Vicar of Oystermouth dedicated, and the Mayoress of Swansea unveiled, a plaque which the Institution has placed in...
Category: Articles
The Kish Lightship
Kingstown, Co. Dublin.—The motor life-boat Dunleary -was launched at 3.45 A.M. on the 19th March in answer to distress sigpals from the Kish lightship in Dublin Bay. A moderate to fresh S.E. breeze was blowing, with a rough sea. The...
Operator at the Transmitter
On board the Watson cabin motor life-boat at Fishguard, Pembrokeshire, fitted with R/T receiving and transmitting sets of the International Marine Radio Company.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
On the Needles
The Greek steamer Varcassi, wrecked on January 5th, 1947. The Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, life-boat rescued her crew of thirty-five. (See page 14.). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
View of the Past:
View of the past: 'Hurry to the Rescue', a watercolour by George Owen dated 1893 and just one of the hundreds of exhibits at Sotheby's maritime exhibition Rule Britannia which runs from January 2 to 29, 1986 (closed January 6).... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The silent epidemic
WORLDWIDE, AN ESTIMATED 372,000 PEOPLE DROWN EVERY YEAR
In too many countries, drowning is the leading killer of children. It affects the poorest in our world first and worst: people caught in the rhythms of everyday life...
Category: Articles
Notes of the Quarter
THE full record of the life-boat service in the past year was a truly remarkable one. In no other year since the Institu- tion was founded in 1824 have life-boats been called out so often to vessels in distress at sea. The total number of...
Category: Articles
War Services of the Institution
THE Secretary of the Institution is compiling a record of the War Services rendered by the Life-boats and by members of the staff of the Institution.
He would be grateful to Honorary Secretaries, especially of Station...
Category: Services