LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Drill
LIFE-BOAT crews are generally such experienced boatmen that the necessity for drill is not apparent to them, and the quarterly exercise at some stations is apt to degenerate into a somewhat perfunctory proceeding which does not strike...
Category: Articles
Wilja and A Ship's Boat
MARCH 10TH. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL.
During the morning three men from the Dutch motor vessel Wilja, which was wind-bound in St. Ives Bay, left her in the ship’s boat to come into St. Ives, but were carried out to sea by the...
Friends of the RNLI: The Lifeboat Fund
Civil servants around the UK are celebrating 150 years of fundraising for the RNLI. And they’re doing so in style, having funded their 53rd lifeboat: a brand new Shannon class due to be built for Wells, Norfolk, in 2021. The Lifeboat Fund is...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 10th November, 1938.
Sir GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the chair.
Reported the receipt of the following special contributions:—• Mr. C. V. Thomas, C.A. . . 1,500 0 0 R.N.D. . . ...
Category: Committee
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
A Boat
Search through surf BLYTH LIFEBOAT, the 46' 9" Watson Winston Churchill (Civil Service No. 8) had launched on exercise on Monday, August 8, and was heading for the harbour mouth when, at 1007, a call was received from HM Coastguard...
A Small Boat (3)
APRIL 29TH. - EYEMOUTH, BERWICKSHIRE, AND BERWICK - ON - TWEED, NORTHUMBERLAND. At midnight on the 28th of April information was received that a small boat with one man in it, and only one oar, had been swept out of the harbour by the ebb...
Coxswain George Warford, of Pakefield
Coxswain George Warlord, of Pakefield.
A Coxswain with a long and fine record, Coxswain George M. War- ford, of Pakefield (one of the Stations closed last year), died on 14th March last, at the age of eighty-eight. He...
Category: Obituaries