LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Instead of Flowers
CAPTAIN S. E. FOSTER, R.N., who for several years was honorary secretary of the Ryde, Isle of Wight, station, died last August. Knowing his interest in the life-boat service his family, in the announcement of his death, asked that gifts...
Category: Donations
Today's Lifeboatmen
Terry George, coxswain/ mechanic of the Sennen Cove lifeboat, joined the crew of the station's all-weather lifeboat in 1983 and was appointed coxswain/ mechanic in 1989. Terry also became a member of the station's inshore lifeboat in...
Category: Articles
Plowman, of Yarmouth
The Dvff life-boat at Great Yar- mouth was the means of taking the smack Plowman, of Yarmouth, and her craw of 7 men safely into Lowestoft Harbour.
(Above) Criccieth Reopened In 1953: Dedication and First Launch of the 35Ft 6In Liverpool Richard Silver Oliver a D Class Ilb Has Been Stationed at Criccieth Since 196
(Above) Criccieth, reopened in 1953: Dedication and first launch of the 35ft 6in Liverpool Richard Silver Oliver. - View image in PDF
A D class ILB has been stationed at Criccieth since 1967.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Your Letters
Far and wide I thought you might be interested in the enclosed photograph which was sent to me by a friend who lives in Edmondton, Canada.
She and her husband were driving along a highway when she spotted an RNLI...
Category: Correspondence
The View from the Upper Terrace of the Sea City Walls Will As This Artist's Impression Shows Be a Dramatic One In This Vista from the North West Side of the City the Various L
The view from the upper terrace of the sea city walls will, as this artist's impression shows, be a dramatic one.
In this vista from the north west side of the city, the various levels of terraces, with their landscaped... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Night Danger Signals
WHEN it is remembered how large an amount of property, and "what numberless human lives have been sacrificed by the loss of vessels during the night, and more espe- cially on the outlying sandbanks and rocks around out own. coasts, it...
Category: Articles
Fortuna of Memel
On the night of the 26th of November, the brig Fortuna, of Memel, stranded on the East Scar Rock, off Redcar. The Redcar life-boat proceeded to her, through a high sea, and took off her crew of 11 men, landing them in safety.
Kelpie, of London
On the 28th December this life-boat again went off, in reply to signals of distress from a vessel which was observed to stop in her course near the shoal of the Barber Sand.
On the -life-boat arriving alongside, the vessel...
Chaften Winkle, of Aalborg
The life-boat and the steamer also went out on the evening of the 14th January, in reply to signals and rockets fired from the Gull light-ship, during very threatening weather.
On speaking the light-vessel, the men were...