LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

At the Annual General Meeting of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the London Tavern on Tuesday the 18th day of March, 1862, The Right Honourable WILLIAM CUBITT, Lord Mayor of London, in the Chair, The following Report of the...

Despite being nearly 188 years old, the lifeboat service never stands still

How do you decide where to locate a lifeboat station and what kind of craft should be housed there? That’s the job of...

Walmer, Kent.—At 9.42 on the night of the 24th of June, 1954, a message was received that a yacht had broken down near the South Goodwin light- vessel. At 9.45 the life-boat Charles Dibdin, Civil Service No. 2 waslaunched. The sea was...

The Lowestoft life-boat saved 2 outof the crew of 5 men of the brigantme Ma- dam, of Yarmouth, which became a total wreck on the north end of the Newoome Sands ..

The Thomas Wilson life-boat at Whitburn was the means of saving the crew of 6 men of the brig Jenny, of Whitby, which became a total wreck on Cape Kerr Point, off Whitburn ..

The life-boat nt Pakefield saved 1 man from the brig Queen Victoria, of South Shields, which became a total wreck on the Barnard Sand.

JANUARY 16TH. - SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.

At 6.30 in the morning a message was received from the flag officer, Humber, through the coastguard, that there had been an explosion on a landing craft four and a half miles east of...

Mrs Karin Bache Norali, descendant of a survivor rescued from the wreck of Sf George in 1899. names Peel's Mersey class lifeboat Ruby Clery. Photo John C. Hall. - View image in PDF