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
(Inset 1990) Has the Cut-Away Topsides and Standard Wheelhouse of the Later Boats
While The Final Boat Duke of Atholl (inset, 1990) has the cut-away topsides and standard wheelhouse of the later boats.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Belgian Yacht Bassurelle
The Y-boat was in action again on 29 July when the Belgian yachtBassurelle was driven ashore south of Irvine Harbour and fired flares which were spotted by the coastguard.
The yacht was fairly close to the station, and in...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
FLEETWOOD.—In accordance with the wishes of the Life-boat men, the Life-boat which is kept moored afloat at Fleetwood has been replaced by a new sailing boat, which is a modification of the large one designed in 1887 for the South- port...
Category: Articles
The Princess Royal Hrh the Princess Anne
The Princess Roval, HRH the Princess Anne meets pupils from the Clerkenwell Parochial School, dressed in authentic Victorian costume, at the launching of the Grace Darling Appeal, intended to raise enough money for a new lifeboat for North... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Rnli Kensington Branch
RNLI Symbol Sweater This unique sweater in navy courtelle or botany wool has the RNLI symbol woven Adult sizes 34" to 46" and crew neck style only.
BotenyWool £12.50 Prices include P & P (UK) Limited...
Category: Advertisement
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...
Loss of Lives from Shipwreck at Bridlington
Some months ago, at Brid- lington, near Hull, during a strong S.E. gale, a small billyboy schooner came ashore south of the harbour of that place. She went into the bay and anchored in the afternoon. She soon dragged her...
Category: Articles
Mr. J. F. Jellico, Hon. Secretary, Port of Liverpool Branch
ME. J. F. JELLICO, the Honorary Secre- tary of the Port of Liverpool Branch, died early in August after a long illness.
He was in his sixty-ninth year. Mr.
Jelliro had been the Honorary Secretary (f that...
Category: Obituaries
Is It War?
A LITTLE while ago a woman visitor at one of the life-boat stations was talking one evening to the motor mechanic near the life-boathouse. As they talked they watched an aeroplane passing overhead. It was just above them when the life-boat...
Category: Articles