LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lord Essendon
Lerwick, Shetlands.—At 1.40 on the morning of the 9th of January, 1957, the coastguard reported that the steam trawler Lord Essendon, of Hull, with a crew of twenty, was ashore at Ham Bressay. The life-boat Lady Jane and Martha Ryland was...
Southwest Passage
Howard Richings, the PNLI's Shoreworks Manager continues his voyage around the coast - here he looks at the stations from Exmouth to Fowey With the RNLI's 175th anniversary celebrations under way and the editor's insistence that...
Category: Articles
Letters
Ex-lifeboat A photograph appeared in the spring 1984 issue of THE LIFEBOAT of Hartlepool lifeboat towing in three fishing boats, one of which was Sea Spell. I believe Sea Spell, formerly known as Ladybird, to be an ex-RNLI lifeboat.
Category: Correspondence
Miss Gaynor Lacey By Courtesy of the Daily Mirror and Arthur Sidey
Miss Gaynor Lacey by courtesy of the Daily Mirror and Arthur Sidey. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Wreck Chart of the British Isles for the Year 1906-1907
WRECK CHART OF THE FOR THE YEAR 1906 -1907.
SHOWING ALSO THE PRESENT LIFE BOAT STATIONS OF THE NATIONAL LIFE BOAT INSTITUTION.
Category: Charts
The Merchant Shipping Act (Conclusion)
IN our further observations on the Merchant Shipping Act, we come to the consideration of those parts of it which have more immediately to do with the Preservation of Life from, or AFTER Shipwreck, or other casualty at sea. An object which,...
Category: Articles
Ellen, of Llanelly
Two days afterwards the same Life-boat was again launched during a gale from the S.S.W., and in a heavy sea, and assisted the barque Elltn, of Llanelly, into a place of safety, she being in distress at the time.
It was not...
In the Old Days Members of West Wight
In the old days members of West Wight lifeboat guild had to sell souvenirs from a trestle at Yarmouth lifeboathouse, often in wind and bad weather. Now Coxswain Dave Kennett and his crew have built them a kiosk inside the boathouse from... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Viking and Loch Maree
Minehead, Somerset. — During the evening of the 9th August, 1939, a message was received from the Hurlestone Point coastguard that the motor yacht Viking was on fire six miles north of Porlock Weir and that the motor yacht Loch Maree, of...
Restoration of the Apparently Drowned
Dr. TROLLOPE, of Hastings, has forwarded the following interesting communication, in reply to a request from the Committee of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, on a case of drowning which he successfully treated on the MARSHALL HALL method...
Category: Correspondence