LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
F. Edwards
On the 14th November, at 4.30 A.M., the No. 1 Life-boat was launched, in reply to signals of distress, shown in the direction of the Middle Cross Sand. She sailed towards the sand, and met a boat containing 5 men, the crew of the schooner F....
Lifeboat Services
North Eastern Division Cut off by tide INFORMATION THAT A MAN had been reported cut off by the tide below the cliffs in the vicinity of the Coastguard lookout was passed to the honorary secretary of Whitby lifeboat station at 1630 on Sunday,...
Category: Services
James Garfield
At midnight on the 18th December large flares were seen in the direction of the Barber Sand. A yawl went out and sailed to the sand, but meanwhile, as the flares continued to burn and the Cockle lightship fired guns and rockets, the Lifeboat...
The Hero, of Scarborough
On the 9th December the Ann Maria, Life-boat was launched from this place, and saved 6 men from the Hero, of Scarborough, which had run ashore disabled by a westerly gale..
An American Liberator Bombing Aeroplane
OCTOBER 29TH. - MINEHEAD, SOMERSET.
An American Liberator bombing aeroplane had crashed, but she had come down on land. - Rewards, £24 4s..
Life-Boat Inns
A NEW inn at Caister, Norfolk, is to be named "Never Turn Back." This name commemorates a disaster and one of the most memorable sayings in the history of the Life-boat Service.
The disaster occurred on the 13th...
Category: Articles
Sink or swim! the popular RNLI raft race, now an annual event on the Ouse in York
Sink or swim! The popular RNLI raft race, now an annual event on the Ouse in York, attracted a total of 80 craft of varying descriptions. The one-and-a-half mile course attracted thousands of spectators who lined the riverbank to watch the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Your Letters
90 years ago I wonder whether you would be interested in this photograph, taken on Lifeboat Day in Croydon in 1909, 90 years ago? My brother, aged 5 (left), and I, aged 4, carried the tin lifeboat collection boxes during a street parade on...
Category: Correspondence
Early History of the Sliding-Keel
IT is very difficult to ascertain with any degree of exactitude when sliding or drop-keels first came into use. In the third volume of " An History of Marine Architecture," by John Charnock, F.S.A., published in 1802, there is a...
Category: Articles