LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A new life with the RNLI
Whether they’re facing the toughest conditions at sea or giving tireless hours to fundraise, RNLI volunteers show enormous dedication to saving lives at sea. We meet five people who left home in search of a new life – and found the...
Category: Articles
The American Steamer David L. Swain
JULY 27TH. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL.
At 2.41 in the afternoon the St. Ives coastguard reported that a vessel four miles west of the Longships had a case of appendicitis on board in urgent need of attention. There was a light...
Over 70 Miles to the Rescue
THE Stromness Motor Life-boat has already shown on more than one occa- sion what a Motor Life-boat can do in the way of long-distance services. One of these was described in The Life-Boat for February this year. On that occa- sion she...
Category: Services
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution—(continued.)
SUTTON, LINCOLNSHIRE.—On the 17th October, 1869, during a violent gale from the N., a small ship drifted past this place with signals of distress flying. The life- boat Birmingham was at once dispatched , to the aid of the vessel, which...
Category: Services
A Crew's Gift to the Institution
THE Cresswell Life-boat is taking part in a procession in the neighbouring town of Ashington during August in aid of the Institution. It has been possible to arrange this without incurring any expense, as not only has the coal company which...
Category: Articles
The Problem of Ships' Life-Boats
SHIPS' BOATS : THEIR QUALITIES, CON- STRUCTION, EQUIPMENT AND LAUNCH- ING APPLIANCES. By Ernest W.
Blocksidge, M.I.N.A. (Longmans, Green & Co. 25.?. net.) Reviewed by FELIX RUBIE, M.I.N.A., Surveyor of...
Category: Articles
The Ex-HDML Eun Mara an Tar
Broken Steering Gear ON SEPTEMBER 29, 1973, Second Coxswain Rowley at Scarborough, Yorkshire (the coxswain being away on holiday), was informed at 11.22 p.m. by the duty officer of the lighthouse that red flares had been sighted off the...
Last of the Sailing Life-Boats
Last of the Sailing Life-Boats The William Cantrell Ashley Sails Away From New Quay Cardigan. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Sea Fog Lifting at Pentreath, the Lizard
Sea Fog Lifting at Pentreath The Lizard From The Painting By Mr Claude M Hart.
Category: Drawings
The British Railways Ferry Princess Victoria (2)
On the 31st of January, 1953, the British Railways ferry Princess Victoria sank in a gale in the Irish Sea.
The Portpatrick, Donaghadee, Clou- ghey and Newcastle, Co. Down, life- boats were all launched on service.