LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fishing Boats including The Easter Morn
FEBRUARY 23RD. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE. The records of the life-boat service are full of stories of gallantry, but it is nearly always gallantry of coxswains and crews working together. The opportunities for personal gallantry by single men are...
The Blind Boy and the Life-Boat
OF all the calamities to which the human race is liable, unless it be that of unceasing pain, there is perhaps none which we each of us dread so much in our own persons, or sympathize with so greatly when beheld in others, as loss of sight....
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Families. The Stantons and Stephensons of Boulmer, Northumberland
By Hugh Stephenson, Honorary Secretary of the Boulmer Branch, and a member of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle-on-Tyne.
THERE are thirty-four houses in the village of Boulmer. Nine are occupied by Stephensons and...
Category: Articles
Two Sailing Dinghies and a Small Motor Boat
St. Mary's, Scilly Islands.—At 3.25 on the afternoon of the 10th of August, 1957, the Telegraph coastguard report- ed that a sailing dinghy had capsized between St. Mary's and St. Martin's and that two boys were in the water.<...
The Ramsgate Life-Boat and the Ketch "Lord Hamilton."
AT half-past two in the afternoon, of 12th February last, the Ramsgate Life- boat and tug were called out by a message from the Coast Guard that a vessel— found afterwards to be the ketch Lord Hamilton—was ashore on the north-east part of...
Category: Services
Notes of the Quarter
THE summer of 1959 has been officially described by the Meteorological Office as the driest since accurate records of rainfall began to be kept more than two hundred years ago, yet it was also the busiest summer the life-boat service has...
Category: Articles
Self-Righting and Non-Self-Righting Life-Boats. Losses Through Capsizing Since 1850
THE discussion in the Press and elsewhere which followed the Rye disaster showed that the public was very far from understanding the relative merits of self-righting Life-boats and of those which do not self-right, or the reasons which...
Category: Articles
The Ladies' Life-Boat Guild
" / have given all those fifty badges out, and now am wanting many more as I have more new members to give them to, and also many of the old workers are very anxious to join. .. .
I am quite sure that the Guild is a...
Category: Articles
Some Ways of Raising Money
A sponsored swim on February 25 by the Gold Fish Swimming Club, part of Bromley Society for Handicapped People, raised £267 for the RNLI, as well as a similar amount for their own association. Five severely handicapped people took part...
Category: Articles
Monty's Marine life
Diver, journalist and DIY convert Monty Halls tells Rory Stamp why he chose the simple life – and why he will always be grateful to the RNLI
When I step into Monty’s small Bristol office, I’m confronted with a toothy grin...
Category: Articles