LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Please Sir, We'Ll Have Some More...
During a long and tiring search for some missing divers in the Channel on 17 August, Selsey and Newhaven lifeboat crews were replenished with breakfast and a roast dinner.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Violet, of Fraserburgh
FEBRUARY 23RD. - GIRVAN, AYRSHIRE.
At 6.15 in the evening the coastguard reported a fishing boat ashore on the north side of the entrance channel to Girvan harbour and asking for help. A light northwesterly wind was blowing...
A Fishing Punt
APRIL 28TH. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX. A fishing punt with two on board had put to sea at midnight and had not returned, but she had been picked up by another vessel.- Rewards, £17 3s. 3d..
A Trawler
MAY 31ST. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.
A trawler had gone aground, and one of her crew was injured, but a tug arrived with a doctor. - Rewards, £7 10s..
Torbay: SEASIDE SPECIAL BRINGS IN THE CROWDS
Hundreds of people defied the rain to support another fantastic Seaside Special at Torbay Lifeboat Station. The Seaside Special is Torbay’s biggest fundraiser of the year and rounds off a week of activities ranging from Walk the Extra Mile...
Category: Articles
Winter and War
EVEN if there had been no war the winter of 1939 to 1940 would have been one to try the endurance of the life-boat crews to the utmost. To the gales and high seas was added a cold so severe and so prolonged as scarcely to have been known...
Category: Articles
The Steamers Oxshott, Deerwood, Gallois, Taara, Aberhill and Paddy Hendly (2)
GOLD AND SILVER MEDAL SERVICES AT CROMER AND GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON AUGUST 6TH. - 7TH. - CROMER, GT.
YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, AND SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK, AND LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK. On the night of the 5th of August,, 1941, a...
The Life-Boat and Its Work
Paper read by Sir JOHN CAHEBON LAMB, C.B., C.M.G., V.P., Deputy-Chairman of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, before the Royal Society of Arts, on the 16th February, 1910. Colonel Sir FrrzRoY CLAYTON, K.C.V Colonel Sir FrrzRoY...
Category: Articles
How Can I Help the Institution? A Note for Keen Honorary Secretaries and Workers
By GEORGE F. SHEE, Secretary of the Institution.
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IN the course of many years' experience of the organization of efforts on behalf of the Life-boat Cause I have met again and again Honorary...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
NEWBIGGIN-BY-THE-SBA, NORTHUMBERLAND.
—A signal of distress was made by a vessel northward of Newbiggin point, on the morning of the 9th Jan. 1889. The wind was blowing a gale from the S.E., the sea was very rough, and the...
Category: Services