LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
THE LANGDON LEGACY
It's 27 March 1941. Two days after being attacked by a squadron of Luftwaffe bombers, the SS Somali, a large convoy ship, burns a mile off the Northumberland coast. Intent on saving her cargo, crew from a salvage tug board to assess the...
Category: Articles
Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, 29th March, 1855. THOMAS BARING, Esq., M.P., in the Chair.
Bead and confirmed the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspondence and the Wreck and Reward...
Category: Committee
Honorary Secretary Stanley Power {Right) Introduces the Dunmore East Crew to Mr Peter Barry Minister for Transport and Power In the Republic of Ireland and Mrs Barry
Honorary Secretary Stanley Power {right) introduces the Dunmore East crew to Mr Peter Barry, Minister for Transport and Power in the Republic of Ireland, and Mrs Barry, who named the lifeboat.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Safely Out of the Dangerous Waters of Whitby Rock - Partly Visible In the Background - the Waveney Class White Rose at Yorkshire Heads for the Harbour Entrance With The
Safely out of the dangerous waters of Whitby Rock - partly visible in the background - the Waveney class White Rose at Yorkshire heads for the harbour entrance with the survivor aboard (Photo Les Heath). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Gloriosa
Storm launch A CARGO VESSEL, Gloriosa, making for Kings Lynn was reported to the honorary secretary of Skegness lifeboat station by HM Coastguard at 1610 on Wednesday January 11, a day of exceptionally high tides and winds on the east coast...
The Right Hon. The Earl of Plymouth, G.B.E., C.B., D.L., P.C.
The Right Hon. the Earl of Plymouth, G.B.E, C.B.,D.L,P.C By the death of the Earl of Plymouth on 6th March last, the Institution has lost a friend who was always ready to place his name and great influence at the service of the...
Category: Obituaries
Stranded Two Days In Cave
The thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum have been accorded collectively to the crew of the Swanage life-boat for the rescue of a man who had been stranded in a cave for more than two days.
At about 9 o'clock...
Category: Services
An Aeroplane (120)
SEPTEMBER 28TH. - BEMBRIDGE ISLE OF WIGHT. The life-boat, crew had assembled for an exercise, but this was cancelled when the air raid siren sounded. Before the men left the station they saw a British aeroplane come down in the sea two miles...
Heroes All
THE following verses were written by Beryl James, of Liskeard, Cornwall, after seeing a Life-boat film. She was fifteen years old at the time, and was one of the prize-winners in the Life-boat Essay Competition last...
Category: Poetry
September
Launches 64. Lives rescued 62.
SEPTEMBER 1ST. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.
At 5.45 A.M. the naval author-ities at Cromer asked for the life-boat to go out, as an aeroplane was in the sea between...
Category: Services