LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
"Lest We Forget." November 11th, 1891: November 11th, 1918
By the Rev. WILBERFORCE ROBINS, Honorary Secretary of the Seaton Branch.
Mr. Robins, who became the honorary secretary of the Seaton branch last year, has an association of nearly fifty years with the life-boat service....
Category: Articles
T.T.H.
Clacton-on-Sea, and Walton and Frinton, Essex.—Early on the morning of the 27th January, the barge T.T.H., of London, bound from Brightlingsea for Chatham with a load of shingle, got into difficulties. She lost her rudder and started a bad...
The Self-Righting Principle In Life-Boats
Ls December 1849 one of the South Shields life-boats upset alongside a wrecked vessel on the Herd Sand, on which occasion 20 out of 24 men who formed the crew of the boat, perished. This melancholy accident, which in one moment prematurely...
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Holiday Spirit
A local club’s sailing session made it a busy Valentine’s day for Aberystwyth lifeboat crew. The B class Spirit of Friendship was launched when a dinghy was seen capsizing several times, with her two-person crew having more and more trouble...
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Letters
Where is your hat?! I have been an RNLI Shoreline member for around 24 years.
I joined after chatting to a lifeboat crew member whilst on holiday in North Wales. He told me of an incident where a young boy had got into...
Category: Correspondence
Four Gallant Services
AT 11.30 on the morning of the 28th August, 1919, during a strong southerly gale with a very heavy sea and thick rain, the Bembridge Life-boat was launched to the help of an American steamer, the s.s. Wakvlla, of Los Angeles, which had...
Category: Services
Wreck of the Hospital Ship Rohilla, at Whitby, 30th October, 1914
Eighty-five lives were saved by the Institution's Life-boats (see p. 274.) IN Rending a collection of ,67 5s.—from herself and from Surgeon-Captain Lonias, who was senior medical officer on the Roliilla, and was one of those saved, with... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Portrait of a Coxswain
Coxswain/Mechanic John E. Bryan, of the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston 44-foot steel life-boat Khami. He was appointed in May, 1967, having previously been a full time mechanic of the former conventional life-boat. Since April, 1961, when he...
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Our Inland Branches. Edinburgh Leith and Granton
EDINBURGH, the capital of Scotland, is situated near the south shore of the Firth of Forth, nearly 400 miles from London. It is sur- rounded on all sides, excepting the north, by lofty hills, the town itself standing on three hills or ridges...
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The Life-Boat Stations of the United Kingdom
THE ISLE OF PURBECK, AND ITS LIFE- BOATS.
XLI. — SWANAGE.— The Charlotte and Mary, 35 feet by 9 feet, 10 oars.
XLII.—KIMERIDGE.—The Mary Heape, 28 feet by 6 feet 8 inches, 5 oars.
THIS...
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