LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
"The Book of the Life-Boat."
THIS interesting work, which is beauti- fully illustrated, is, as its title indicates, well calculated to fulfil the object for which it was written. Any seeking information relative to the LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, its operations and its work,...
Category: Articles
Day Dawn, of Peterhead
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.—At 9.50 A.M.
on Tuesday, the 26th October, 1937, a man reported that the motor fishing boat Day Dawn, of Peterhead, was near the rocks at South Head with her engine broken down, and that she was...
Around the Emerald Isle
Building into the MillenniumRNLI shoreworks manager Howard Richings continues his tour around the coast with a visit to IrelandOkay, so we all make mistakes - there are 38 stations around the coast of Ireland, not 37 as stated at the end of...
Category: Articles
The RNLI and me: Tomos Parry
The Michelin-starred restaurant owner and chef tells us what it’s like to grow up on the Welsh coast with the RNLI – and how he’s raising awareness of our lifeboats in London
WHO IS TOMOS PARRY?
Son of Gareth...
Category: Articles
A Pinnace
OCT. 5TH. - LERWICK, AND AITH, SHETLANDS. In the morning of the 4th October a Royal Air Force aeroplane came down on the sea about twenty-five miles N.E. of the N.E. corner of Unst Island, and a pinnace went out to her help. On the following...
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Category: Advertisement
The S.S. Klondike
NEWBIGGIN, NORTHUMBERLAND.—The s.s. Klondike, of Laurvig, in ballast from Hartlepool for Blyth, stranded in Gambols Bay while a moderate breeze was blowing from S.S.W., with a moderate sea, on the night of the 15th September. The weather was...
Ardente
— The Life - boat Frien Walch was launched in a heavy S.E. gale on the afternoon of the llth December to a French schooner, which was dragging her anchor and drifting ashore in Weymouth Bay. A tug endeavoured to tow the Life-boat to the...
The Life-Boat
TtrE day is spent ; the ied sun sinks Beneath the Western wave; The light bark gaily holds her course With her crew so stout and brave.
A few short hours, and all is changed; For loudly howls the Wast, And o'er the...
Category: Poetry
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Woolly Jumpers No one is too sure why 13 sheep ended up on the cliffs just outside Fowey on 15 March this year, but a service to stand-by while a Coastguard cliff rescue team tried to extricate them ended up with some unusual...