LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
On Passage With the R.N.L.I.
The passages of two new life-boats to their stations are described here by men who were aboard. The first account, reproduced by courtesy of the Eastern Daily Press in which it appeared on 28th October, 1964, is written by Dr. P. S. Barclay,...
Category: Articles
Centenaries of Life-Boat Stations. Presentation of Vellums Signed By the Prince of Wales
As announced in the last issue of The Lifeboat, the Committee of Management decided in May that every Life-boat Station, on the completion of a hundred years, should be presented with a Vellum to be hung in the Town Hall or other public...
Category: Articles
Union Crystal (1)
Union Crystal sinks JUST BEFORE 1915 on Wednesday, November 16, 1977, the honorary secretaries of both Sennen Cove and St Ives lifeboat stations were informed by Lands End Coastguard that the 499-ton coaster Union Crystal was in trouble 12...
The Four-Masted S.S. Eider, of Bremen (1)
ATHERFIELD, BRIGHSTONE GRANGE, AND BROOKE, ISLE or WIGHT.—On the night of Sunday 31st January, the fourmasted s.s. Eider, of Bremen, 4,719 tons register, bound from New York for Southampton, en route for Bremen, stranded on the reef of rocks...
Vertical take off
The volunteers aboard an inshore lifeboat faced nearly overwhelming conditions one day last March …
The shipping and inshore waters forecast at 5.20am warned of the impending...
Category: Articles
The Navy's Tribute to the Life-Boat Service
ON 8th February, 1940, the Institution received the following letter from Sir Archibald Carter, K.C.B., K.C.I.E., Permanent Secretary to the Admiralty: " I am commanded by My Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to inform you that they...
Category: Correspondence
Pinta
JULY 23RD. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
While returning to Hull after a visit to Spurn, the small sailing yacht Pinta, of Hull, manned by five sea scouts, was forced to put back by a rising wind. The sea was moderate, but a...
(Below) Ex-Coxswain Robert 'Bobbie' Brunton Retired In 1976 After 29 Years As a Member of Tynemouth Lifeboat Crew; He Was Second Coxswain from 1953 to 1963 Coxswa
(Below) Ex-Coxswain Robert 'Bobbie' Brunton retired in 1976 after 29 years as a member of Tynemouth lifeboat crew; he was second coxswain from 1953 to 1963, coxswain from 1963 to 1976. At TynemoutH's annual Christmas dinner the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mr. Wright Griggs, of Hythe
Mr. Wright Griggs, of Hythe, Kent, who died on 18th September last, at the age of sixty-nine, was a member of a family whose name is very familiar in the history of the Hythe Life-boat Station. He went to sea as a boy, and then as a young...
Category: Obituaries
From a Mother In Eire
A woman in County Cork has sent a pound, saying: "My son has just been saved after his ship went, and I -feel I should like to help to save another mother's soa"..
Category: Articles