LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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There's fury in the tempest, and there's madness in the waves; The lightning snake coils round the foam, the headlong thunder raves; Yet a boat is on the waters filled with Britain's daring sons, Who pull like...
Category: Poetry
French Life-Boat on Service
This photograph of the life-boat stationed at 1'Ile de Sein appeared in the March issue of the review " Realites " following an article on the boat by M Raymond Levard and is reproduced by kind permission of the Societe... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Probus Ioanes
FOUR IN DISTRESS Flamborough, Yorkshire. At 6.45 p.m. on zyth May, 1964, the coastguard told the life-boat coxswain that a fishing boat appeared to be in need of help about i£ miles from the coastguard station and by 6.55 the life-boat...
Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society
THE Thirty-third Annual Meeting of this excellent Society was held at the Cannon Street Hotel, on the 15th May last. In the absence of the President, His Grace the DUKE OF MABLBOROUGH, the Chair was taken by Admiral the Hon. ARTHUR...
Category: Meetings
To Mark More Than £10000 Raised By Devenish Brewery for the Rnli
To mark more than £10,000 raised by Devenish Brewery for the RNLI a special presentation was made by Chay Blyth, the round the world yachtsman, on behalf of the company to Rear-Admiral W. J. Graham, director RNLI, at Weymouth lifeboat... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Regalia
The fishing vessel Begalia, of Douglas, was under observation about seven miles off the shore on the 3rd January, on account of the very choppy sea and the strong W.N.W. gale prevailing. About noon the vessel was missed, and the Coxswain of...
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Category: Advertisement
Snowdon Range
The steam- ship Snowdon Range, of Sunderland, which passed through and survived such a succession of misfortunes in mid- Atlantic, came very near to being wrecked when being towed into harbour on the 14th January. The disabled steamer was...
Dirkje
INTERPRETER CAME At 10.45 a.m. on iyth June, 1964, the secretary of the Berwick Infirmary told the honorary secretary that a Dutch trawler had asked if a boat could land the skipper as she could not enter the harbour on the ebb tide. As no...
A Small Boat Named Mizpah
On the 15th August a youth was left in charge of a small boat called the Mizpah. He pushed off from the shore, but in doing so lost one of the oars, and in the pre- vailing gale quickly drifted out to sea.
He was seen...