LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Trip In a Swedish Rescue-Cruiser
(Member of the crew of the Beaumaris life-boat) IT was seven o'clock in the morning and raining slightly as I walked through the deserted streets of Gote- borg down to the docks where I was to board the Swedish rescue-cruiser Wilh: R....
Category: Articles
Afon Dulais
The Coastguard telephoned to the Honorary Secretary at 1.15 A.M. on the 8th January that a steamer, which was found later to be the Afon Dulais, of Llanelly, bound for Port Talbot with pig iron, was aground on the Mixon Sands. A light N.N.W....
Jessie and Cheshire Witch
On the 11th January, news was received at this station that the services of the China life-boat were urgently needed in Torbay, as many vessels were in great danger of being wrecked during a strong gale of wind from the N.E. The China...
South African Lifesavers
On the outside of the lifeboat station was a board recording the number of launches, people assisted and so on. 'That's the important one', said a crew member, pointing to 45 lives saved. Only the sharp shadow of his hand cast...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Crews on the Yorkshire Coast
FROM time immemorial it has been the custom of the Life-boat Service not to maintain fixed crews for Life-boats, but to draw volunteers as required from the seafaring population of the coast towns and villages where Life-boats are...
Category: Articles
Chloe
Brothers and stations unite When Red Bay lifeboat crew were paged, there was no immediate threat to life for the couple on the yacht, Chtoe. Yet at Red Bay station brothers Tom and Paddy McLaughlin remember thinking: 'It was blowing a...
Awards for Hastings Lifeboat Station Members
Pictured left to right: David Morley, Richard Read. Allen Head (Deputy Divisional Inspector). - View image in PDF
Andrew Backway and Michael Payne. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Letters
Bravery endures Thank you for the autumn issue of the magazine.
The article on Henry Shrimp Davies was of great interest to me: my brother was a crew member of the SS English Trader on that fateful night and at the age of...
Category: Correspondence