LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Past and Present
100 years ago From The Life-Boat of 1896 In 1995 Dan Laoghaire received the first Trent class lifeboat in Ireland. The contrast between the sailing lifeboat involved in the 1895 Kingstown disaster recounted below and herl 995 high-tech...
Category: Articles
Silver and Gold Also, and Even Notes
Saturday.—Life-boat Saturday — splendid institution—come now, you other chaps, fork out your subscriptions; Pee unfortunately left my parse at home (not that there's anything in it). Bat come, chuck 'em a copper—silver or gold will...
Category: Articles
Lieut.-Colonel E. G. H. Livesey
Lieut.-Colonel E. G. H. Livesey, who was District Organising Secretary for the Midlands from 1952 to 1957, died on the 29th of March, 1958. Lieut.- Colonel Livesey was educated at Epsom College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and...
Category: Obituaries
Dancing Day
Loughton and district branch had the help of Chingford Morris dancers for the highlight of its recent lifeboat week.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Kurt Arlt and Petrel
Margate, Kent, and Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 5.36 on the morning of the 25th of December, 1957, the coast- guard told the honorary secretary that a collision had occurred near the south- east Girdler buoy between the motor vessel Kurt Arlt,...
Helping Hand, of Lowestoft
DECEMBER 17TH. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.
During the afternoon information was received through the coastguard that the motor fishing vessel Helping Hand, of Lowestoft, with seven on board, was in difficulties, but that a tug...
Life-Boat Calendars and Christmas Card
THEE.E will again be two life-boat calendars ready for Christmas, one for hanging and the other for the pocket or handbag, and this year the Institution will also issue a Christmas card, the first since 1941.
The hanging...
Category: Advertisement
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Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the February, March and April Meetings of the Committee of Management
February Meeting.
Dunmore East, Co. Waterford.—On the llth December, 1932, the 4,920- ton steamer Pauline, of Panama, came to anchor in a very dangerous position in Tramore Bay. She was bound, light, from Glasgow to...
Category: Services
Mike and Pat
The Lizard-Cadgwith, Cornwall - At 8.30 a.m. on 4th December, 1969, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht had broken down about 16 miles south south east of the Lizard and had been calling for assistance since the early...