LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Wreck of the S.S. "Veronese."
IT was with signal pleasure that all friends of the Life-boat cause heard of the gallant and successful efforts made by the brave fishermen and boatmen of the Portuguese Life-boat Society in rescuing 200 persons from the ill-fated S.S....
Category: Articles
Portrait of a Coxswain
Coxswain Robert Lee, of the Douglas, l.o.M., life-boat fl. A ColbyGubbinNo.2. Appointed coxswain in April, 1950, he had been a member of the crew for many years. Coxswain Lee's grandfather was bowman until he was lost at sea while...
Category: Articles
"The Blessing of Him That Was Ready to Perish Came Upon Me."
THE LIFE-BOAT.
Hark! an awful tempest Breaks upon the night.
Winds and waves are roaring: 'TSs a fearful sight! See the noble vessel, Wrecked upon the deep.
Many a heart is failing...
Category: Poetry
Sea Gipsy
St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—At 8.30 on the evening of the 24th of June, 1957, a telephone message was received that the 21-feet speed boat Sea Gipsy had broken down six miles south-south- east of the Casquets. At 8.50 the life-boat Euphrosyne...
Two Royal Naming Ceremonies
H.R.H. THE DUCHESS OF KENT, Presi- dent of the Royal National Life-boat Institution recently named two new motor life-boats; one in March and one in May. The first, on March 29th, was at New Brighton, to whose station a 52-foot Barnett...
Category: Inaugurations
The Old Firm
IN 1789 William Wouldhave of South Shields, house-painter and teacher of singing, made his model of a life-boat which would self-right. In the same year Henry Greathead of South Shields built the first life-boat, the...
Category: Articles
The British and Foreign Sailors' Society
As our readers are aware, the subjects treated on in this journal have been exclusively those which are either directly, or indirectly, connected with the function of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION—the " Preservation of Life...
Category: Articles
January (1)
JANUARY MEETING NAIRN, MORAYSHIRE. About 11.15 on the night of the 13th of November, 1945, an R.A.F. Warwick aeroplane was seen by the Lossiemouth coastguard to crash in the sea in flames, six to eight miles in a north-easterly direction...
Category: Services
Lora
Dover, Kent - At 7.40 a.m. on 26th May, 1969, Dover harbour board control tower informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was in difficulties two and a half miles south west of Dover. At 7.55 the life-boat Faithful Forester slipped her...
Prizewinners In Skelton and District Schools Art Competition Held During a Fund-Raising Campaign Went to Sea With Redcar Lifeboat on June 15
Prizewinners in Skelton and District schools art competition, held during a fund-raising campaign, went to sea with Redcar lifeboat on June 15. (Left to right) Andrew Bodinner, 11, Amanda Green, 10, Joy Parkin, 8, and Anthony Treen, 11..<... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs