LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Appeal on Behalf of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
The Angel of Death laughed aloud in his glee, As he wildly careered o'er the pitiless sea : To the winds and the waters he spake but a word, And the wind and the waters grew mad as they heard.
He laid his cold hand on...
Category: Poetry
The Maud Smith Award
Coxswain George Leith, of the Lerwick, Shetland, lifeboat, who helped to rescue the crew of nine of the trawler Granton Osprey on December 13, 1972, is this year's recipient of the £5 'The Maud Smith Award for courage, in memory...
Category: Awards
A Gift from An Infants' School
A SHORT time ago the Institution lent to the head mistress of an infants' school in a very poor part of London, one of its models in glass tanks, which are used for showing how a self-righting Life- boat empties herself of water and...
Category: Donations
The S.S. Resolven
On the 9th February, while a strong gale was blowing from W.S.W., the s.s. Resolven, of Cardiff, 1,032 tons register, bound from North Shields for Lisbon with coal, stranded on the Barber Sand. The No. 2 Life-boat Beauchamp proceeded to her,...
Beaconsfield
CLOUGHEY, Co. DOWN.—The barque Beaconsfield, of Brammen, laden with teak from Rangoon for Greenock, via Falmouth, stranded on the ridge inside North Bock in a strong S.S.W. breeze and a rough sea on the 9th April. She fired signals of...
Boy David (1)
Lytham-St. Anne's, Lancashire and New Brighton, Cheshire - At 7.44 p.m. on 2nd December, 1968, it was learnt that the shrimp boat Boy David with two men on board was overdue at Southport. After further enquiries had been made the...
Kabalo and Flandres
FEBRUARY 12TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 7.32 A.M. the Deal coastguard reported that a collision had occurred near the Fork Buoy.
A fresh southerly wind was blowing, with amoderate sea. It was snowing. The motor life-boat Charles...
Sennen Cove Life-Boat Lands the Crew of the Victoire Roger at Newlyn
Sennen Cove Life-Boat Lands The Crew of the Victoire Roger at Newlyn. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Winning Ticket Is Drawn By Mary Tamm of 'Dr Who' Fame
A winning ticket is drawn by Mary Tamm, of 'Dr Who' fame.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Trawler (1)
Fenit, Co. Kerry.—21st July, 1939.
The life-boat put out at 8.45 P.M. indense fog to the help of a trawler which was reported to have struck Sibyl Head and to be making for Blasket Sound in a sinking condition. Mr. T....