LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

A dozen of hearts ! and a dozen of hands! And the courage of death 1—'tis a York- shire boast; It was all they asked one November noon, When a hurricane blew on the Whitby coast.

For a cry came over the wailing sands,...

The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...

UNITED STATES.

THE Annual Report for the United States Coastguard for the year ending 30th June, 1915, indicates a new arrangement by which, in accordance with the passage of the Coastguard Act...

Famous Shipwrecks.

" Famous Shipwrecks." By Captain Frank H. Shaw. (Elkin, Mathews & Marrot, Ltd. 12s. &d. net.) THIS is a book which everyone interested in the Life-boat Service should read—an account of...

An attractive girl dressed in a Nell Gwynn costume has been seen selling oranges on behalf of the Institution at a number of towns in the south and south-west of England where life-boats are stationed. She is Miss Sue Peters, and the oranges...

AT 1.55 on the afternoon of the 12th of December, 1955, the Swanage coast- guard told the honorary secretary of the Swanage life-boat station, Mr. W.

Powell, that the tug Flying Kestrel had passed a distress message to...

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