LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Coins of All Countries
OUR life-boats can claim to be an inter- national service, not only because they have saved lives and vessels belonging to every country with a seaboard, but because the coins of all countries find their way into the life-boat collecting...
Category: Donations
Patriot, of Wexford
AUGUST 9TH. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. At nine in the evening a telephone message from the military lookout post at Greenore Point reported that the motor fishing boat Patriot, of Wexford, appeared to have broken down and to be flying...
Duke of Northumberland's Life-Boat Essay Competition, 1934
THE Duke of Northumberland's Life- boat Essay Competition for elementary schools has been held this year for the fourteenth time. The number of schools taking part was 2,501, an in- crease on last year of 294.
Of this...
Category: Articles
The Former Lifeboat Ambler at Anchor In Idyllic Condtions In Tonga
The former lifeboat Ambler at anchor in idyllic condtions in Tonga - a far cry from the conditions recalled by former crew member Lew Hardy, below. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Liberal of Wisebeach
On the 15th April, at daylight, a sloop was observed to be on shore on the south end of the Goodwin Sands. As soon as there was sufficient water on the sands for a boat to cross them, the Walmer life-boat was launched, and proceeded under...
Record of Rescues In 1967
1967 month January February March April May June July August September October November December Number of times life-boats called out on service 65 49 85 66 69 117 144 154 122 113 60 59 1,103 Lives saved by life-boats 25 25 67 23 67 98 67...
Category: Services
Letters of Thanks to Skippers
FOR a service which led to the rescue of six people from the motor fishing vessel Castle Dawn, Mr. Samuel McCullough, skipper of the motor fishing vessel Be Ready, and Mr. Ernest McKee, skipper of the motor fishing vessel Ambitious, have...
Category: Services
Barra Island: Hrh Prince Henrik Prince Consort of Denmark
Barra Island: HRH Prince Henrik, Prince Consort of Denmark, presents a plat/ue to Coxswain John Macneil in recognition of the efforts to rescue the crew of Lone Dania made b Barra's 52ft Burnett lifeboat R. A. Colby Cuhhin No 3. With... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Year of War.
In the first year of war life-boats were launched to the rescue 1108 times and rescued 2302 lives. They rescued more lives in this one year of war than in the last five years of peace. They rescued on the average 44 lives a week. In the last...
Category: Articles
The Danish Fishing Vessels Clupea, Rosslau, Anne Stranne and Kami
FOUR BOATS AND CREWS SAVED IN deteriorating weather conditions on 8th November, 1971, the 70-foot steel life-boat Grace Paterson Ritchie, stationed at Kirkwall, Orkney, went to the aid of the Danish fishing vessel Clupea which had broken...