LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Life-Boats and Anarchy
THE association between the RNLI and Russian anarchists may appear to be an unlikely one. Nevertheless, perhaps the greatest of the Russian anarchists, Prince Peter Kropotkin, was a profound admirer of the life-boat service in this country....
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Services (From Page 118)
Lifeboat Services (from page 118) spectacles and dived into the water to help the woman. At the same time John Wall threw a line to the man approaching with the children.
On reaching the woman Richard Wheeler, a trained...
Category: Services
The Launch of the Life-Boat
Go forth, thou gallant boat! God speed thee on the main I Not oft, if ever, wilt thou float Thus tranquilly again.
Go I proudly ride the wave— The restless waters sleep; Hereafter thou must breast and brave The fury of the...
Category: Poetry
The Lifeboat Was Made By Mrs Jean Peel
Over J,000 hand-made paper flowers were needed to transform a rowing boat into a 47ft Watson class lifeboat. The old Coniston custom of dressing rowing boats has been revived as part of Coniston water festival. The lifeboat was made by Mrs... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Saintfield, of Belfast (1)
MAY 1ST. - FLAMBOROUGH, AND BRIDLINGTON, YORKSHIRE. In the early morning the S.S. Saintfield, of Belfast, bound from the Tyne to Poole, with coal, ran ashore in foggy weather about two miles north of Flamborough. The call for a life-boat was...
Vice-Admiral Sir Peter Compston
Vice-Admiral Sir Peter Compston. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Vice-Admiral Edward H Martin
Vice-Admiral Edward H Martin. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Spanish Steamer Wrecked at Coverack
ON the night of the 3rd of November, 1951, a south-west gale was blowing on the south coast of Cornwall, with heavy rain. The night was very dark. A small Spanish steamer the Mina Cantiquin, of Gijon, with a crew of seventeen, was steaming...
Category: Services
Three Russian Seamen Rescued Off Rocks
ON the 16th of October, 1958, the Soviet trawler Urbe, which was believed to have a crew of about twenty-five, sank near the Holm of Skaw, an uninhabited rocky islet off the northeastern corner of the Shetland island of Unst. The trawler was...
Category: Articles
Five New Life-Boats Named
FIVE life-boats at stations as far apart as Sunderland and Shoreham Harbour were named during the last quarter. On the 4th of July at Sunderland a life-boat provided out of a legacy left by Miss Emily Myers was named. Mr. R. Cyril Thompson,...
Category: Inaugurations