LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fishing Boats (1)
On the 17th March, during an E. gale, a very heavy sea was running across the mouth of the harbour, and a number of the fishing-boats were lying off, waiting to get in when the tide flowed. As the sea was breaking heavily it was thought wise...
Fishing Boats (1)
Whitby, Yorkshire. On the 4th of April, 1960, there was a heavy ground sea on the bar, which made it dangerous for boats to enter harbour. As the local fishing fleet was still at sea, in- cluding a number of small cobles, it was decided to...
Plymouth
Fleet Chief Petty Officer Charlie Haydon at HMS Raleigh, Plymouth, has pushed back the frontiers of sponsored fund raising yet one stage further. This is a sponsored whaler smash. Two teams of new recruits to the Navy, armed with sledge... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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Ramlah, Royal Empire, Sarah, Guide Me and Margaret
APRIL 22ND. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
At 7.30 A.M. anxiety was being felt for the safety of some of the fishing cobles, as a very strong N.N.W. wind was blowing, with a rough sea. As both life-boat coxswains, and a number of the...
A Wreck
I saw a wreck upon the ocean flood.
How sad and desolate ! No man was there; No living thing was on it. There it stood.
Its sails all gone; its masts were standing bare ; Tossed in the wide, the...
Category: Poetry
The Editor Retires
FOR the first time in thirty-three years The Life-boat is appearing under a new editor. Mr. Charles Vince, the former editor, retired from the service of the Institution on the 1st of July, 1953.
His appointment as editor...
Category: Articles
Mr. J. J. Marks, Llandudno
MR. JAMES JONES MARKS, who died on 24th March, at the age of 70, had been the honorary secretary of the Llandudno life-boat station for seventeen years.
He had been a member of the committee since 1907, so that he had taken...
Category: Obituaries
A Sailing Dinghy (2)
Whitstable, Kent. At 11.32 a.m. on 6th November, 1965, a member of the public told the honorary secretary that a small sailing dinghy had capsized half a mile to a mile off shore, and that after the two people aboard her had managed to right...