LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
United States Life-Saving Service
THERE were 272 stations embraced in the Life-saving Establishment of the United States at the close of the fiscal year which terminated on the 30th June, 1902. Of this number 195 were situated on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, 60 on the...
Category: Articles
A Dangerous Launch at Gourdon
ON 17th December, 1938, a S.E. by E. gale was blowing at Gourdon, Kincardineshire, with, flurries of sleet.
An extremely heavy sea was running, and was breaking heavily far outside the harbour. Half an hour after midday a...
Category: Services
The Sailor's Mother
One morning (raw it was and wet— A foggy day in winter time) A woman on the road I met, Not old, though something past her prime: Majestic in her person, tall and straight; And like a Roman matron's was her mien and...
Category: Poetry
A Motor Boat
Dunmore East, Co. Waterford. — At 7.0 on the evening of the 30th of July, 1952, a man walked into the Dunmore life-boat station. He was a member of the crew of a small motor boat which had sprung a leak and sunk off Creadon Head. After...
Royal National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
National Institution FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.
ESTABLISHED IN 1824.
SUPPORTED BY VOLUNTARY SUBSCRIPTIONS.
PATRONESS.
HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE...
Category: Advertisement
Royal Human Society Award
Anstruther Lifeboat Crew Member Barry Gourlay has received an award from the Royal Humane Society for his rescue of a capsized kayaker on 19 September 2010. Barry was out for a Sunday walk with his wife and daughter when he spotted the man...
Category: Articles
Notes of the Quarter By Patrick Howarth
THREE LIFEBOAT STATIONS have recently been re-opened. One of these is Fraserburgh, the station which suffered two major disasters in less than 20 years and from which the lifeboat was withdrawn after the 1970 disaster.
The...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Workers Honoured
THE Royal National Life-boat Institution announced in January awards to voluntary workers who have devoted their time and energies to the life-boat service.
Highest award in the list, that of honorary life governor, given...
Category: Awards
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK.—The ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has established a new and additional Station at Aldeburgh, in order to strengthen the Life-boat service on that part of the coast, the local committee unanimously concurring, and a...
Category: Articles
Charles Barrie
Broughty Ferry, Angus.—At 11.45 A.M. on the 18th June the honorary secretary received a telephone message that an aeroplane had been seen to fall into the water near No. 6 buoy, off Shanwell Sands. The motor life-boat John Ryburn was away...