LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Life-Boat
LOUD beat the treacherous breakers on the shore; The boiling waves like mountains rise on high, Seeming to vent their wild, tumultuous roar To the dark pall that erstwhile was the sky.
The billows,...
Category: Poetry
William and Mary, of Yarmouth
On the night of the 12th December, during a gale of wind from S.S.W., the lugger William and Mary, of Yarmouth, was driven upon the Barnard Sand, between Lowestoft and Kessingland.
At daylight, as soon as the perilous...
Mary Ann
Ramsgate, Kent. — At 9.5 on the night of the 23rd of May, 1950, the coastguard telephoned a message re- received from Sandwich that a fishing boat was drifting on a lee shore a mile north of Guildford Hotel. Five minutes later,...
Queen Victoria, of Lyne
Signals of distress were observed about half-past eight o'clock on the 10th November, from this Life-boat station, and the Manchester Unity was promptly launched to the assist- ance of the distressed vessel. It turned out that the...
The Service In 1942.
In 1942 life-boats rescued 596 lives and helped to save 43 boats and vessels from destruction. Life-boatmen won three gold medals of the Institution, six silver and 29 bronze, and four British Empire Medals..
Category: Articles
Ann and Catherine
At midnight, on the 25th of July last, the smack, Ann and Catherine, of Barmouth, stranded on the bar off that place, the wind blowing a gale from W. S. W. at the time. At 2 A.M. the Barmouth life- boat, belonging to the National Life-boat...
Putting Out to the Rescue
The Anstruther motor life-boat going to the help of fishing boats on 21st February, 1935. - View image in PDF
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Category: Photographs
Balance Sheet.—31st March, 1852
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Category: Accounts
Mr. F. H. Barclay, of Cromer
By the death of Mr. F. H. Barclay, of Cromer, on 28th January, at the age of sixty-five, the Institution has lost one of its most trusted and valued honorary secretaries. As the honorary secretary at Cromer, Mr. Barclay was in charge of one...
Category: Obituaries
The S.S Malta
While a gale was blowing from the 8.E., with a cross sea, intense darkness and rain on the 9th March, the s.s.
Malta, of North Shields, went aground on the Boulmer South Rocks. She was on a voyage from Bergen to Shields in...