LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Life-Boat's Crew
WHEN raging seas the bark assail, And hope recedes before the gale, Who follow in the storm's fierce trail? The Life-boat's crew.
Who shrink not from destruction's throes, Nor quail before the dreadful blows,...
Category: Poetry
Before the Crowds Assembled: View Across the Harbour to the Lifeboat House and Slipway. on Show Were The* Whitby Pulling Lifeboat, Robert and Ellen Robson, Ait Atlan
Before the crowds assembled: view across the harbour to the lifeboat house and slipway. On show were the* Whitby pulling lifeboat, Robert and Ellen Robson, ait Atlantic 21 and a D class 1LB.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Cox- swain James Wilson of St. Abbs, who first joined the St. Abbs crew in 1947.
He was assistant mechanic from 1951 to 1953, when he was appointed cox- swain. Since he joined the crew...
Category: Articles
A Big Increase In the World's Shipping
THE new volumes of Lloyd's Register of Shipping which have just been published record the very interesting fact that during the past year the total tonnage of the world has been increased by 408,540 tons, nearly three times as big an...
Category: Articles
In Memoriam
AN interesting ceremony took place at Horstead Church, Norfolk, on the 18th July, when a memorial window to the memory of the late Sir Edward Birk- beck, for twenty-five years Chairman of the Institution, was unveiled in the presence of Lady...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat House
The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to ttem, are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...
Category: Articles
Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.
(Incorporated &y Royal Charter.) FOUNDED IN 1824.—SUPPORTED SOLELY BY VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS.
PATRONESS.
HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY...
Category: Advertisement
Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 5th July, 1855. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspondence and the Wreck and Reward...
Category: Committee
Life-Boat Saturday Fund
THE summer months are practically the high season of the Life-boat Saturday Fund, and throughout the country, north, south, east and west, the various Local and District Committees, including the Ladies' Auxiliaries—without whose...
Category: Articles
Premuda (2)
JANUARY 16TH. - MARGATE, RAMSGATE.
AND WALMER. KENT. At 9.30 P.M. a message was received at Margate from the Margate coastguard that an Italian steamer was sinking close to the North Goodwin Light-vessel. A strong N.E. wind...