LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Glasgow, June 11, 1986: the relief Arun class lifeboat ON 1108 visited the City of Glasgow for her official naming ceremony and service of dedication. She had been substantially funded from the legacy of a former resident of Glasgow, Miss... - View image in PDF

Jan. 4.—Five fishermen put off in a coble from Staithes, Yorkshire, and assisted other cobles which, had been overtaken by a very thick fog and a heavy sea.—Reward, 11. 5s.

Jan. 10.—Three men, while fishing off Beadnell,...

THERE were 272 stations embraced in the Life-saving Establishment of the United States at the close of the fiscal year which terminated on the 30th June, 1902. Of this number 195 were situated on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, 60 on the...

1,072 Lives Rescued by the Twenty James Stevens Life-boats.

IN 1894 the Institution received under the will of the late Mr. James Stevens, of Birmingham, a sum of £50,000, to be spent on the construction of twenty...

‘Being able to do something for someone – giving them that extra chance – you just feel pleased that you’ve done it,’ says Jennie Court, before our interview is brought to a sudden halt. We’re interrupted by the shrill ringing of a bell from...

Presentation of Vellums Signed by the Prince of Wales.

TEN Centenary Vellums were pre- sented to Stations during the year 1931, and two more presentations were made in 1930 in addition to the ten previously reported in...

THE terrible disaster which overtook one of the Life-boats belonging to the Institution, stationed at Caister on the coast of Norfolk, in November last will be fresh in the minds of our readers.

The expressions of sympathy...

A UPE-BOAT MAN'S SONG.

A mild wind, or a wild wind, a sky of blue or black, The boat must go and we must row to the rocky bar and back— To the rooky bar and back, boys, where the breakers boom and roar; But...