LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Saga of Stronsay
When their pagers woke them in the early hours of Sunday 25 October 2009, Kirkwall lifeboat crew didn’t know they were to face 9 hours at sea and an injury of their own
Stronsay, looking like a missing piece of some...
Category: Articles
Grace Darling's Coble. (21 Feet Long By 6 Feet Broad)
Presented to the Institution by Lady John Joicey-Cecil, and lent to the Committee of the Dove Marine Laboratory at Cullercoats, where it is exhibited.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Appeal of the Press
THE urgent appeal which the Prince of Wales made in his Presidential Address for increased financial support of the Life-boat Service was taken up at once in the Press, and a number of papers supported and reiterated the appeal in their...
Category: Articles
The Dredger Hopper James 96
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 11.43 on the morning of the 24th of August, 1956, the Formby coastguard reported that a small vessel was in difficulties north of Formby float. The life-boat Norman B, Corlett put out at...
Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the November, December and January Meetings of the Committee of Management
Launches 103. Lives rescued 130.
November Meeting.
Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—On the evening of the 1st October a message was received from Horse Sand Fort that a vessel was stranded about two...
Category: Services
Bookshelf
Let Not The Deep by Mike Lunnon-Wood published byHarper Collins at £4.99 (paperback) ISBN 0 00 647590 6 Novels which centre around the lifeboat service are rare enough, but one which is well constructed, gripping and also moving is a...
Category: Articles
Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society
THIS Society held its Thirty-seventh Annual Meeting at the City Terminus Hotel on the 10th May last. The chair was taken by His Grace the DUKE OF MABLBOROUGH, K.G., the President. Amongst those present were THOMAS BRASSEY, Esq., M.P.,...
Category: Meetings
Shoreline
THE LONDON INTERNATIONAL BOAT SHOW is now over and once again the results are very encouraging: 1,011 new members were enrolled. Such a good result could not have been achieved, however, without the help and dedication of our voluntary...
Category: Articles
A Gallant Boy
ON the 26th of March, three Army officers from Dover, members of the Royal Artillery Yacht Club, set sail in a yacht for Margate. Just after four in the afternoon they were seen by the shore attendant attempting to enter Ramsgate harbour. He...
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MARCH 29TH. - LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE, AND BEAUMARIS, AND MOELFRE, ANGLESEY. A report had been received that an aeroplane was in distress and another that three men had baled out of an aeroplane, presumably the same one, but nothing could...