LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Gallant Life-Boat Men
We've songs in praise of men of fame, Of men who've fought and bled, Whose names still live in history, Though they themselves are dead.
But I'll not sing of heroes gone, My burthen now shall be Our gallant...
Category: Poetry
Harwich
Shortly after four in the morning of 8th December information was received from the Coastguard that a vessel was burning flares. Fifteen minutes later the Motor Life-boat John and Mary Meiklam of Gladswood was launched. A fresh S.W. by W....
Offshore Lifeboat Services June July and August 1977
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire July 3.
Aith, Shetland July 13 and August 5.
Aldeburgh, Suffolk June 4, 7, July 8, 19 and August 17.
Amble, Northumberland June 20, July 24, August 4, 14 and...
Category: Services
3,298 RNLI RESCUE CRAFT LAUNCHES 1 JANUARY–30 JUNE 2017
The launches listed here are those for which returns had been received at RNLI Headquarters and processed by 25 July 2017
Behind every launch, new lifeboat and naming ceremony listed in this section is a community of...
Category: Articles
A Busy Christmas
CHRISTMAS was a busy time for the life-boat service. On Christmas Eve the motor life-boats at St. Abbs (Ber- wickshire), Blyth (Northumberland), Sunderland (Durham) and Falmouth (Cornwall) were all launched on service, and the motor...
Category: Articles
Rescue from Inside Smugglers' Cave
AT 6.35 on the evening of the 9th of August, 1958, the honorary secretary of the St. Ives life-boat station, Captain W. H. H. Treloar, learnt from the police that four people needed help in Smugglers' Cave near Hellsmouth. The cave lies...
Category: Services
The Hoylake Motor Life-Boat
JULY 10TH. - LYTHAM-ST. ANNES, LANCASHIRE.
While on her way to a shipyard at Freckleton the Hoylake motor life-boat was delayed by an engine breakdown. She was due off Lytham at three in the afternoon, but did not arrive...
The Lifeboat Service - Past and Present
100 Years Ago The following item was first published in THE LIFEBOAT of August, 1886.
A NIGHT ON THE GOODWIN SANDS.
ON the 20th of April last a grievous disaster occurred on the Goodwin Sands, which...
Category: Articles
Experimental Floating Stretchers
TRIALS ARE AT PRESENT in progress on two different possible answers to the same problem: how best to achieve a stretcher which will float. While flotation is obviously a desirable extra safeguard in any marine situation, there are also many...
Category: Articles
Flower o' Mary
On the evening of the 19th November the steam drifter Flower o' May, of Banff, made to enter the harbour. She was returning from the English fishing grounds, and, being short of coal, had been towed about fifty miles before being cast...