LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Appeal
A leading object of this publication being to draw attention to the deplorable loss of life from shipwreck which periodically takes place on our shores, we propose, in our pre- sent Number, to take a brief general review* of the subject, for...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat Exhibition at Charing Cross Underground Station May 18th—June 5th, 1933
The Life-Boat Exhibition at Charing Cross Underground Station May 18th-June 5th, 1933. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Tyne Class In Five-Hour Search
The Mumbles lifeboat crew, below, discuss operations with police divers during a service on 24 November 1991 to local charter fishing boat Luke John.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Letters
Disabled sloop in storm On September 14, 1975, we, the crew of the yacht Chayka of Ardgour which was in distress off the Needles, were rescued by the Yarmouth lifeboat.
No words or gestures can adequately express the deep...
Category: Correspondence
The Lowestoft Trawler Helping Hand
Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 2.50 on the morning of the 10th November, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a flare had been seen about three miles west-by-north of Rhossilli Head. The position of the flare was later...
Anna
Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At 6.47 on the evening of the 24th of March, 1957, the Foreland coastguard telephoned that the Ryde police had reported a motor boat drifting off Sands Head buoy. The motor boat's engines ap- peared to have...
Aida Lauro, of Naples
St. Ives, Cornwall.—Early on the morning of the 1st July the coastguard reported that a steamer was ashore near Pendeen. She was the Italian steamer Aida Lauro, of Naples, bound from Liverpool to Hull with a cargo of linseed and cotton seed,...
Your shout
Keep our launches!
In response to Christopher Hansen’s comment last issue, please do not give up the lifeboat launchings summary. You can’t possibly feature more than a very few high-profile rescues in...
Category: Articles
Deterioration of Our Merchant Seamen
ENGLAND—that is to say, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland—is a great, a wealthy, a populous, and a powerful country. But it is likewise essentially a maritime one. If not maritime it would have been nothing; for without that...
Category: Articles
News from the Branches
list of New Branches.
The following new Branches have been formed since the list published in Life Lifeboat, for March 1926.
NORTHERN DISTRICT.
Branch. Honorary...
Category: Branches