LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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A northerly gale of exceptional severity sprang up with the suddenness—it is reported—of a "clap of thunder," and the Life-boat Queensbury was called out to assist some cobles in distress, but as help reached them from another...
Stranraer: Representatives Oflnd Coope Alloa Brewery Company
Stranraer: Representatives oflnd Coope Alloa Brewery Company and the Co-operative Society in Scotland, Mr West, Mr McCulloch, Mr Young and Mr Thomson, were present at Stranraer boathouse on Saturday July 23 for the handing over of the new D... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 9th February, 1939.
Sir GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the chair.
Resolved that the St. Ives, Cornwall, station be temporarily closed.
Resolved that a joint meeting of the boat and...
Category: Committee
A Thunderbolt Aeroplane and a Walrus Amphibious Aeroplane
JUNE 26TH. - CAISTER, NORFOLK. At 8.30 in the evening the honorary secretary of the life-boat station was on duty at the local observation post where it was known that the pilot of a Thunderbolt aeroplane to the north of Caister, coming in...
A cold plunge
When a fisherman fell into a fast ebbing tide, who would hear his cries for help – and what could be done to save him?
After a morning’s shrimp fishing on 29 October 2013, one of Achill’s...
Category: Articles
During the London Boat Show Des Sleightholme Editor of Yachting Monthly
During the London Boat Show Des Sleightholme, editor of Yachting Monthly, presented a painting to Coxswain Mike Scales (r) of St Peter Port lifeboat, Guernsey. The painting, which is by Laurence Baglev, standing on the left, is of the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
H.M.S. Speedy
DECEMBER 18TH. - MARGATE, KENT.
A request was received from the medical officer of H.M.S. Speedy for the life-boat to go out to her for a man with scarlet fever.
At 1.15 in the afternoon the motor...
Casamance (2)
FEBRUARY 17TH. - HARTLEPOOL, AND SEAHAM, DURHAM, AND REDCAR, AND WHITBY, YORKSHIRE. Shortly after midnight a message came to the Hartlepool honorary secretary’s house from the coastguard that the life-boat was wanted. The honorary secretary...
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Cox- swain Thomas William Read, of Rams- gate, who retired last year. He was appointed second coxswain about 1915, when the station was administered by the Board of Trade, and in 1924, two years after the...
Category: Articles
A Song of the Life-Boat
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...
Category: Poetry