LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
News from the Branches
Annual Meetings : Station Branches.
BLYTH (NORTHUMBERLAND).-—On 1st March, Alderman George E. Tynemouth, Chairman of the Branch, presiding.
The report for the year ending 30th September, 1926, showed that...
Category: Branches
Heroes of the Oar. (From "Watchers By the Shore," With the Author's Permission.)
HIGH flies the spray, and landward leap The hungry savage seas, Whose white manes curl in seething hate Before the lashing breeze, That shrieks its thousand league-long self Across the spume-flecked waste, To line the coast with wrecks and...
Category: Poetry
News and Views
SEA Check under way The RNLI's Sea Safety team has been helping to educate sea users of all kinds since the initiative was first launched some four years ago, but it is now breaking new ground with its SEA Check scheme.
Category: Articles
The Duke of Kent Has Accepted the Institution's Invitation to Become Its Next President. This Was Announced Formally at the Annual General Meeting of the Governors of the I
The Duke of Kent has accepted the Institution's invitation to become its next President. This was announced formally at the annual general meeting of the Governors of the Institution on 25th March (see page 618). The Duke of Kent thus... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Caroline Elizabeth, of London
On the following night the same life-boat again put off, in reply to signals of distress, and succeeded in saving the crew, consisting of 13 men, from the barque Caroline Eliza- beth, of London, which had stranded on the South Steel rocks...
Hrh the Duke of Kent Visited the Institution's London Base In the Marine Society's Premises Lambeth Last March to Attend a Meeting of the Committee of Management the First Such Meeting E
HRH The Duke of Kent visited the Institution's London base in The Marine Society's premises, Lambeth, last March to attend a meeting of the Committee of Management, the first such meeting ever to be addressed by the President.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Hyperion, of Harwich
Dungeness, Kent.—At 1.50 P.M. on the 21st May a local boatman reported a small motor yacht in difficulties. A moderate W.S.W. gale was blowing, with a rough sea. The yacht was the Hyperion, of Harwich. She had been taken in tow by a Dutch...
Saint Ronan
Dover, and Walmer, Kent. At 7.12 on the morning of the llth of July, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary at Dover that two vessels had been in collision near the South Goodwin lightvessel. At 7.31 the coastguard reported...
Prins Bernhard
Dover, Kent.—At 11.58 on the night of the 30th of May, 1956, the Sandgate coastguard passed on a report from the North Foreland radio station that the motor vessel Prins Bernhard, of Gro- ningen, had been in collision five miles south of...
Carved Wood Stern Ornament from the Indian Chief Which Was Wrecked on the Long Sands on 5Th January, 1881, Survivors Being Taken Off By the Ramsgate, Kent, Life-Boat Next Day. the Orname
Carved wood stern ornament from the Indian Chief which was wrecked on the Long Sands on 5th January, 1881, survivors being taken off by the Ramsgate, Kent, life-boat next day. The ornament—it commemorates a famous rescue—is preserved at the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs