LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
British and Foreign Rewards for Saving Life
ON the 6th of December last, the E. Z., of New York, fell in with the British vessel John Garrow, when in the act of sinking.
The master, his wife, child, and twenty-six members of the crew, were safely taken off at great...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Gourie, S.S. Finland, and Steamers Ivan Kondrup and Feddy
JANUARY 9TH. - ABERDEEN. At 11.40 A.M. a message was received from the coastguard that machine-gun fire and the sound of bomb explosions, from an attack by enemy aircraft on shipping, had been heard east of Downie Point. A fresh S.S.W. wind...
KISS OF LIFE
A 13-year-old’s quick thinking and love for his Dad keep them both alive when a February kayaking trip goes wrong
After a good breakfast, Paul Rowlands kissed his wife Julie goodbye and set off on an adventure with his son...
Category: Articles
July
Launches 70. Lives rescued 49.
JULY 2ND. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. At 11.15 P.M. a message was received from the coastguard that a vessel was on fire about five miles south-west of Shoreham. A fresh westerly wind was...
Category: Services
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT.—The inauguration of the Queen Victoria new Life-boat on this station, a description of which was given in the last number of The Life-boat Journal (pp. 528-9), took place on the 23rd August in the presence of a...
Category: Articles
Artistry In Cornwall And Whitby
Cornish originals on eBay Cornish artist Glyn Macey is auctioning 120 of his works on eBay for the RNLI. Glyn has put a painting up for sale every weekday since the start of October, with a bidding period of one week...
Category: Articles
Brooks & Bentley
nnouncing The Diamond Cross of Love, a contemporary design of fine jewellery brought to you exclusively from the master goldsmiths of Brooks & Bentley in a magnificent tribute to a time honoured symbol of love and devotion, the cross.<...
Category: Advertisement
Dona Marika
Tanker aground A MESSAGE came to the Angle (Pembrokeshire) honorary secretary from St Anne's Head Coastguard at 9.8 p.m.
on August 5, 1973, to say that the oil tanker Dona Marika had run aground on Wooltack Point,...
The Life-Boat House
The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept hi roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat House
The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...
Category: Articles