LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

I sing a song of the Life-boat crew, Sons of the sturdy oar! Whose hearts are steadfast, firm and true, When angry billows roar.

Who flinch not when the raging gale Sends forth its deadly breath; Whose spirits ne'er a...

The services of this valuable life-boat were again called into requisition on the evening of the 23rd December under the following circumstances:—A light being observed on the South Bank while it was blowing fresh from the S.W., the...

The following article appeared in the Norwich Mercury of llth April, 1968, and is repro- duced by courtesy of the Editor Who, reading this, has not at some time or other rushed down to the beach at the sound of the maroons calling out the...

THE tide is full, the wind is fair, The hour is striking now, And word goes round, with hearty cheer, "Up anchor to the bow." The capstan creaks as bars are manned By sailors stout and true; The captain smiles as from the strand...

Mr. Courtenay H. EdmondsWith the death of Mr. Courtenay H.

Edmonds, of Exeter, at the end of 1923, the Institution lost the oldest of its Hon- orary Secretaries. Mr. Edmonds became Honorary Secretary to the Exeter Branch...

Seven rescued THE OIL SUPPLY VESSEL Smit Lloyd47, dragging her anchor and grounded in a severe easterly gale and heavy swell on the west shore of Peterhead Harbour of Refuge, about five cables from the lifeboat slipway, was reported to the...

The No. 1 motor life-boat H.F. Bailey was launched at 4.35 P.M. on the 13th February as a message had been received from the coastguard that the s.s. Campus, of Cardiff, was ashore on Haisborough Sands. The Campus, 2,249 tons, was bound from...

Aboard Arwed Emminghaus a few technical details are explained by her captain, Rolf Hoffman. - View image in PDF

photograph by courtesy of the Central Office of Information. - View image in PDF