LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Triharda
Crew saved after long and difficult service to capsized trimaran Yarmouth's Arun Joy and John Wade was involved in a service on 11 December 1993 which made headlines in the national press. The lifeboat had spent nearly five hours at sea ...
Victoria and Atomic Star
HELPLESS IN A HEAVY SEA Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire.—At 6.40 in the evening of the 22nd of September, 1947, the fishing boat Victoria was seen approaching harbour with the seine-net motor fishing boat Atomic Star in...
Life-Boat Service and the Boys' Brigade
IN Northern Ireland the Life-boat Service has been receiving very valuable help from the Boys' Brigade during the last two or three months. The Belfast Battalion has made a systematic house to- house collection in the city of Belfast,...
Category: Articles
A Motor Life-Boat's Trip of 669 Miles
THE new Motor Life-boat for Longhope, in the Orkneys, which is one of the 45 feet 6 inches Watson (cabin) type, with two 40 h.p. engines, left Cowes for her station at nine at night on the 4th January. She reached Ramsgate just before one in...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Rosso, of Stockholm
Montrose, and Broughty Ferry, Angus, Eyemouth, Berwickshire, and Gourdon,Kincardineshire.—At 4.52 in the after- noon of the 7th of March, 1952, the S.S. Rosso, of Stockholm, bound for Sweden from Methie, wirelessed that she was leaking...
The Aldeburgh of Long Ago
[These extracts are from Dame Millicent Fawcett's book of reminiscences, " What I Remember," which were published (12*. 6d. net) last autumn. They are made by her kind permission, and that of her publishers, Messrs. T. Fisher...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Vigilant
CASTLETOWN, ISLE OF MAN.—A telegram reporting a vessel ashore in Port St.
Mary Bay was received early on the morning of the 7th February, while a moderate gale was blowing from the S., with a very heavy sea. The snow having...
In Celebration
Birthdays, weddings, anniversaries. Are you looking for an imaginative and inspirational gift for these celebrations? Instead of giving presents to people for their special occasions have you ever thought of donating some money to your... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
London District Conference
A CONFERENCE of the branches in the London District was held at Southend- on-Sea on the 30th of March. Eighty- one delegates from forty-five branches attended it. The party was welcomed by the Mayor, visited the life-boat house, saw the life...
Category: Meetings
Heroes of the Oar. (From "Watchers By the Shore," With the Author's Permission.)
HIGH flies the spray, and landward leap The hungry savage seas, Whose white manes curl in seething hate Before the lashing breeze, That shrieks its thousand league-long self Across the spume-flecked waste, To line the coast with wrecks and...
Category: Poetry