LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
April
Launches 41 Lives rescued 56
APRIL 3RD. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.
A message was received from the son of the life-boat coxswain, Dumble, that his father and his father’s partner were out in their crab-boat...
Category: Services
Eric and Susan Hiscock (Wanderer) at Yarmouth
Eric and Susan Hiscock (Wanderer) at Yarmouth Yarmouth's new £1.8m all-weather Severn class lifeboat was named after Eric and Susan Hiscock, whose generous legacy provided the funding.
The naming ceremony was... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
June Kilgour
The barque Jane Kilgour, of London, went on the Cross Sands, off this coast, on the 22nd Feb- ruary, and the Caister beachmen proceeded to her in one of their yawls, and endea- voured, by cutting away the masts, to get her off the sands....
Rocks and Shoals
Four very experienced coxswains were in London last May to be awarded medals for bravery. For all of them, Michael Berry of Jersey, Michael Scales of Guernsey, Michael Grant of Selsey and Thomas Cocking of St Ives, it was at least their...
Category: Articles
The First Quarter of the Second Century
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 156 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to June 30th, 1949 - - 76,495 The First Quarter of the Second Century On the 4th of March...
Category: Articles
Twilight
The lugger Twilight, of Inverness, when bound on the night of 4th October to Lowestoft for the herring fishing, stranded on the South Scroby Sands. There was a strong N.N.E. breeze with a heavy sea at the time, and their signals of distress...
The F.V. Harvester II
Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire - At 12.10 p.m. on 2ist July, 1966, a vessel off Broadsea was seen firing rockets and appeared to be on fire. The life-boat The Duchess of Kent was launched at 12.20 in a gentle north-westerly wind and a choppy sea...
Exercise Poolespill
'At 0600 on Friday, October 24, 1975, an oil tanker struck a submerged object off Studland Bay, Dorset, and 200 tons of oil spilled into the sea . . . . Miles of beaches, and marine and bird life, were threatened by what looked like a...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution
SELSEY, SUSSEX.—On the 5th September the brig Governor Maclean, of London, was totally wrecked, during a gale of wind, on the Shold Point of the Ower's Sandbank, off Selsey. The life-boat on that station was immediately manned and...
Category: Services
A Day In the Life Of...
Jon Jones, The Lifeboat's editorial assistant, looks at the work of George Rawlinson, Divisional Inspector {Dl) of lifeboats for the South .
The title 'inspector' had always caused me to form a mental image in...
Category: Articles