LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Is it the hireling's greed of grain Urges them o'er the seething main ? Is it to glean with wrecker's glee The doleful harvest of the sea ? Is it to grasp with iron grip The riddled flag of the foeman's ship— To haul to port...

Every RNLI supporter helps save lives at sea, but there are some who deserve special recognition. At our Annual Presentation of Awards dozens of dedicated supporters were honoured. Prestigious supporter awards were presented in the following...

Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 2.13 a.m.

on 12th January, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the cable had parted from the wireless transmitting station Radio London and that the vessel was drifting,...

Crew's 'fine teamwork' during 16-hour service The crew of Wells Mersey class lifeboat Doris M. Mann of Ampthill have been commended following a 16-hour service which 'was dominated by a fine display of teamwork' in winds...

On the night of the 13th January the s.s. M. J.

Hedley, of Penzance, collided with the mail steamer Connaught, and was so badly damaged that her crew were compelled to desert her. A message reaching Holyhead, the steam Life...

FOR THE first time, we are introducing two items which we hope will be more than souvenirs and fall into the category of suitable gifts. For men, there is an attractive set of hand-made cuff-links with the R.N.L.I. motif in gilt and enamel...

At 7.15 A.M. on the 6th April a schooner was seen making for the harbour entrance the wind then being south with a heavy sea on the bar, and a quarter of an hour later when the vessel had just got inside the river, the wind suddenly...

EYEMOUTH, N.B.—On the 26th December, the smack Prospect, of this place, came into the bay before daybreak, and as the sea in the roadstead was heavy at the time, her anchor was dropped butdid not hold; the waves then drove the vessel in...