LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
No Life-Boat There!
BY NICHOLAS MICHELL, ESQ.* (With Ittuslration.') IT was a wild and lonely shore, Girded by rocks; the sea-bird's cry, The billow's everlasting roar, The tempest, howling through the sky, The only sounds—as though Despair Sat...
Category: Poetry
A Dinghy and a Yacht
North Sunderland, Northumberland.
At 12.2 p.m. on 2ist September, 1965, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht had capsized in Newton Bay and that two people were believed to be on board. At 12.5 the IRB...
A Four-Engined R.A.F. Bombing Aeroplane
JULY 8TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 7.46 in the morning the Deal coastguard reported that a four-engined bombing aeroplane, belonging to the R.A.F., had crashed in the sea about two and three-quarter miles east of the life-boat station. A light...
Lieutenant-Colonel C. R. Satterthwaite, O.B.E. (1)
COLONEL CLEMENT RICHARD SATTERTHWAITE retired from the secretaryship of the Institution at the end of last year. He had then been in its service for twenty-two years, nearly seven as deputy-secretary and over fifteen as...
Category: Articles
Yacht Aquila
Margate, Kent - At 4.27 p.m. on 7th December, 1969, it was learnt that the 50 ft. ketch yacht Aquila, on passage from Newhaven to London with a crew of four, had fired red flares. She had ripped her mainsail in a sudden squall and had...
"Stand By Vessel."
Anchor Chanty.
BY CAPTAIN Q. C. A. CRAUFURD, R.N., honorary secretary of the Dungeness life-boat station.
" She therefore stood by the vessel until dawn."—Honorary Secretary's...
Category: Songs
Welcome (and farewell)
I stepped down as Chairman of the RNLI at the end of September – but I could not do so without taking the opportunity to thank you
As ever, you’ll find stories showing the remarkable courage and selflessness of our...
Category: Articles
Ex-Motor Mechanic Thomas Sliney
EX-MOTOR MECHANIC THOMAS SLINEY, who for nearly 20 years served in that capacity with the Ballycotton, Co. Cork, life-boat, died on 23rd October, 1966.
He was awarded the silver medal in 1936 and the bronze medal in 1943...
Category: Obituaries
Notes of the Quarter
IN the first quarter of 1961 exception- ally heavy demands were made on life- boat crews, as the figures for launches clearly reveal. The total number of launches on service in January, Febru- ary and March was 163. In the first three months...
Category: Articles
The Winning Photographs
The winners of the Institution's photographic competition which closed on 3ist October are Mr. W. Aldiss, of Sparrow Hall, Hindringham, Fakenham, Norfolk, and Mr. J. H. Hughes, mechanic of Criccieth life-boat, North...
Category: Articles