LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Derek Lionel Scott
Derek Lionel Scott Former Mumbles coxswain (see right) Derek Scott BEM Derek joined The Mumbles lifeboat crew in 1947 following a disaster when the lifeboat overturned with the loss of all her crew. In 1950 he was made bowman, in 1952 second...
Category: Obituaries
History Brought to Life
The first steps inside the new National Collection of lifeboats tell you that this is something very special. Here, for the first time anywhere in the world, the history of a nation's lifeboats and the men who took them to sea is laid...
Category: Articles
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Family of five snatched to safety from base of cliff on rising tide A service by Little and Broad Haven's D class on 23 September 1995 to a family stranded at the base of a cliff on a rising tide has led to the award of the...
The Restoration of Persons Apparently Drowned
WHAT member is there of any Christian community who has not meditated, with feelings of reverential and grateful emotion, on the miraculous restoration to life of LAZARUS after he had been dead four days ? Who is there that has not pictured...
Category: Articles
Ros Alither
FISHING VESSEL AND FIVE TOWED TO SAFETY Valentia, Co. Kerry. At half past five on the morning of Saturday the 10th of August, 1963, Valentia Radio informed the honorary secretary that a fishing vessel was in difficulties south-west of...
White Rose
GORLESTON.—On the afternoon of the 15th April, the smack White Rose, of Yarmouth, whilst endeavouring to enter Tarmouth Harbour, inconsequence of a heavy ground swell, and a considerable sea on the bar, ran aground on it. A yawl which went...
Lord Clyde
JOHNSHAVEN, KlNCAKDINESHIBK. A telephone message having been received from Gourdon, on the 25th January, intimating that a schooner was ashore at the Burn of Benholm, which is about a mile and a half eastward of Johnshaven, the Life-boat...
Manx Steamer Ben Veg Meeting a Force 8 Gale As She Left Harbour In January 1966 at Times During This Winter's Gales Seas Were Breaking Over Road and Jetties
. . . and Manx steamer Ben Veg meeting a force 8 gale as she left harbour in January 1966. At times during this winter's gales, seas were breaking over road and jetties right up to the head of the inner... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Life cycle
Each Summer, Londoners Nick Pleydell-Bouverie and Rad Hart-George swap their suits for cyclists’ Lycra and head off on the next stage of their RNLI Tour of Britain
The ambitious idea was...
Category: Articles
Phoebe, of Scarborough
On the 21st February, the brig Phoebe, of Scarborough, was stranded on a sand-bank near Covehithe, on this coast, during stormy weather. The Southwold large life-boat went oft', put 5 of her crew on board the vessel, and assisted in...