LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Index of Advertisers
Apollo Associates .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 607 Bolinders Company Ltd. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 637 Brookes & Gatehouse Ltd. 620...
Category: Index
Atlantic Storms
" So long as men shall continue to navigate the ocean, and the tempests shall hold their course over its surface, disasters by sea, shipwreck and peril to human life must inevitably take place." —SIR WILLIAM HILLARY,...
Category: Articles
Hm Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Names Rnlb Rotary Service Dover
DOVER: OCTOBER 30, 1979 IT WAS PARTICULARLY FITTING that Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother should agree to visit Dover to name the new lifeboat, for she is not only a Patron of the RNLI, but earlier last year she was installed as...
Category: Inaugurations
The Effect of the North Pier at Southwold
The effect of the north pier at Southwold on the southerly movement of sand can clearly be seen - there is a distinct 'step'in the beach.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Coxswain William Sinclair, of Aberdeen
Awarded the silver medal for gallantry and a second-service clasp to it in 1937. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Sesam (1)
All in a season's work RNLI Divisional Inspector Colin Williams gives a round up of all things operational this Spring in the island of Ireland Our crews experience everything that the Irish Sea and Atlantic Ocean can muster, as...
God Help Our Men at Sea!
God help our men at sea! In firelit, pictured rooms, 'mid wine and flowers, And gleesome company, The wild winds awe us, in our blithest hours, To sigh this prayer; God help our men at sea ! I had a brother once. Our love ne'er...
Category: Poetry
August
Launches 39 Lives rescued 13
AUGUST 3RD. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY.
At three in the afternoon the coastguard reported a vessel aground south of Holyhead in dense fog. There was no wind and the sea was smooth....
Category: Services
September (1)
SEPTEMBER MEETING EGLINTON, Co. LONDONDERRY. About 12.15 in the afternoon of the 16th of December, 1944, the Eglinton coastguard received an SOS from the R.N.A.S. Eglinton, that a Corsair aeroplane had crashed into the sea 200 yards off...
Category: Services
The Biggest Single Donation Ever Received By Port Talbot Branch
The biggest single donation ever received by Port Talbot branch from the efforts of a single person is handed over by Philip Reed, a long distance swimmer. Last September he swam across Swansea Bav from Mumbles Head to Porthcawl, a distance... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs