LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ireland's Eye
AGROUND IN DENSE FOG Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 1.47 in the morning of the 7th of October, 1947, the coastguard reported a steam trawler aground near the end of the North Pier. There was a dense fog with a light westerly wind and a calm sea. The...
The Wherry Uncle George
BOYS ADRIFT At 5.17 p.m. on 27th May, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that three boys were adrift in an 18-foot wherry. Despite the light southeasterly breeze there was a thick fog with visibility down to 50 yards and a...
On Service In a Motor Life-Boat
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 124 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 49 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to November, 30th, 1934 - 63,862 On Service in a Motor Life-boat.1 By A. E. JOLLY, Motor...
Category: Services
Gallantry Among the Rocks
COXSWAIN William Sheader of Scarborough has been awarded the R.N.L.I.'s silver medal for gallantry for a remarkable service in which he had to take the life-boat in among dangerous outcrops of rock with at times only five feet of water...
Category: Services
The Robert Anderson
CLACTON-ON-SEA.—While a moderate gale was blowing from N.E., accompanied by a heavy sea, on the 24th January, a schooner was observed stranded on the Middle Spit Sands. The Life-boat Albert Edward was launched at 5.15 P.M. and sailed to the...
Disaster at St. Ives. Seven Life-Boatmen Lost
THREE minutes before two in the morn- ing of 23rd January. 1939, the honorary secretary of the St. Ives life-boat station was rung up by the district officer of coastguard, who told him that a vessel was in a dangerous position two miles N.N...
Category: Services
From the Princess Elizabeth
IN 1947 the Princess Elizabeth sent the Institution £180, the balance of her wedding present from Kimberley.
At the beginning of 1948 her wedding dress was displayed in Edinburgh.
The Lord Provost...
Category: Donations
The Duchess of Kent.
The Duchess of Kent, the new President of the Institution, was anxious to meet as many as possible of those who organise and carry on its work, and after the annual meeting on 8th. July a reception was held at the Savoy...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat Station
THE following brief description and diagrams illustrative of a complete Life-boat Establishment, {Deluding the House for the protection of the boat, will serve to convoy an idea of the general character of one of the 308 Life-boat Stations...
Category: Articles
The Screw Steamer Akaba
Early in the morning of the 10th November, the crew of a fishing lugger arrived at Gorleston, and reported that they had seen flares and rockets about the lower part of Winterton Eidge. A gale from the S.E. by E. was blowing at the time, and...