LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Summer Sands
Sounds of music float along; Seas flow in with summer song ; For the sands are gay, and children play Where storms rage fierce on wintry day.
" A penny in the elot—H peril from the sea !" A coin from me, a coin...
Category: Poetry
A Motorised Rubber Dinghy
Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin - At 6.10 p.m. on 5th April, 1970, it was learnt that a motorised rubber dinghy with three skin divers aboard had run out of fuel and was drifting seaward off Dalkey island. Two of the divers had swum ashore and...
Past and Present
75 years ago From THE LIFEBOAT of 1921 The Ladies' Life-boat Guild.
THE Institution has owed in the past, and still owes, so much to the generous and devoted service of women, that the Committee have long thought that...
Category: Articles
L.C.T.908
NOVEMBER 13TH. - WELLS, NORFOLK.
At 5.50 in the evening the coastguard reported a landing craft in need of help outside Wells harbour. A strong north-west wind was blowing, with a rough sea ; it was raining and visibility...
Bookshelf
some r e c e n t p u b l i c a t i o n s r e v i e w e d WEST HIGHLAND SHORES by Maldwin Drummond Published by Nautical Books at £19.95 ISBN 07136 5860 6 Maldwin Drummond is not only a Vice President on the RNLI's Committee of...
Category: Articles
Dover:
Dover: On Saturday September 10, 1983, a day of north-westerly gales and rough seas, Dover's 50ft Thames lifeboat Rotary Service, under the command of Coxswain/Assistant Mechanic Anthony Hawkins, was just returning to harbour from one... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Life-Saving on the Shannon
THE Republic of Ireland's river Shannon, longest in these off-Europe islands, and, with its many lakes and tributary Grand Canal and river Barrow making it probably one of the largest single connected waterways in Europe, is becoming...
Category: Articles
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Anstruther, Fife - At 4.36 p.m. on i6th March, 1967, a message was received that the wife of one of the light-keepers on May Island required urgent medical attention. The life-boat The Doctors launched at 4.50 with a doctor on...
The Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Ladies' Guild
The Great Yarmouth and Gorleston ladies' guild held their annual lifeboat ball at the Ocean Room, Gorleston-on-Sea. Among the 530 guests were Lt Cdr Brian Miles, director of the RNLI, accompanied by his wife Anne, together with the Mayor... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Braywick
St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—About 8.40 on the morning of the 8th of January.
1953, the motor vessel Braywick, of London, which had a crew of nine, wirelessed that she had broken down and needed a tug three miles north- east...