LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Our Sailors
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...
Category: Poetry
Peel - Mersey Class Ruby Club
Mrs Karin Bache Norali, descendant of a survivor rescued from the wreck of Sf George in 1899. names Peel's Mersey class lifeboat Ruby Clery. Photo John C. Hall. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The King and the Life-Boat Service (1)
The King and The Life-Boat Service. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Gejets (With Assistant Editor) Approach the Rapids
The GeJets (with assistant editor) approach the rapids. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Strait Talking
The narrow stretch of water which separates England from France has long been a hub of marine activity, and lifeboat stations have been established there for nearly 200 years. Mike Floyd looks at the Dover Straits today and the way in which...
Category: Articles
An Ex-R.N.L.I. Life-Boat
New Brighton, Cheshire. At 10.40 on the night of the 26th of January, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Dutch coaster Toni had reported seeing a distress signal made by the crew of a boat near the wreck of the...
Astraea and Alfred
BROADSTAIKS. — Flares were shown from vessels off the North Foreland while a whole gale was blowing from N.N.W., accompanied by a heavy sea and heavy squalls of hail, on the 27th January, and, in response, the Life-boat Francis Forbes Barton...
A Silver Medal Service at Flamborough
ON the night of 2nd March, 1937, the Grimsby steam trawler, Lord Ernie, bound for Grimsby from the White Sea, with a crew of fifteen men, went ashore under Bempton Cliffs, north of Flamborough Head. The harbour- master at Bridlington picked...
Category: Services
Kelt Isle II
Weymouth, Dorset - At 10.44 a.m. on 31 July, 1968, it was learnt that a cabin cruiser was firing flares a hundred yards off Portland Bill.
The life-boat Frank Spiller Locke slipped her moorings at 10.58 in a strong...