LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Sea Cadet Whaler and Gypsy
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 5.45 on the afternoon of the 30th of September, 1956, the Formby coastguard reported that a Sea Cadet whaler, with three men on board, was on the rocks near Seaforth radio station. At six o'clock the life-boat...
Life-Boat Societies
The Royal National Life-boat Institution agreed to a request made at the International Life-boat Conference that it should as a distributing centre for information which may be of general interest to all Life-boat Societies. The Institution...
Category: Articles
Annual Meeting
The eighty-eighth Annual General Meeting of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION was held in the Whitehall Rooms on Thursday, March 14th, 1912. His Grace the Duke of Northumberland, K.G., presided, and amongst those present were: — The...
Category: Meetings
Bridlington Life-Boat Leaves Harbour In a Gale
Bridlington Life-Boat Leaves Harbour In A Gale. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Your Letters
Unusual hazard Sir - I was skipper of the yacht Dalriada when she sank in the small hours of 2 July 1988 (Lifeboat Services, Winter issue), and was eventually transferred to the shore from HMS Battleaxe by Coxswain Billy Lennon and the...
Category: Correspondence
Life-Boat Services In 1910
Lives saved.
Aberystwith, two small fishing boatsot 2 Adela, fishing boat, of Llan- dudno— saved boat and 2 Aeron Belle, schooner, of Aber- ystwith 3 Agamemnon, s.s., of Liverpool stood by vessel.
Agnes...
Category: Services
The S.S. Bencroy
An excep- tionally severe gale was experienced on all coasts of the United Kingdom on the 22nd February, and about 12.40 P.M.
the steam Life-boat Duke of Northumber- land was called out to the assistance of the s.s. Bencroy...
Five Pence a Bucket of Water Lop a Bag of Soggy Pig Food
Five pence a bucket of water, lOp a bag of soggy pig food. That was the going rate for tormenting poor Edward Childs, a crew member of Port Isaac lifeboat in the stocks during the station's annual Lifeboat Larks. Bob Young (far left),... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
August
AUGUST Launches 41. Lives rescued 92.
AUGUST 1ST. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE. At about 1. 8 A.M. the Royal Naval shore signal station reported that a large steamer had run aground near the Chequer Shoal Buoy. The night was...
Category: Services