LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Is It War?
A LITTLE while ago a woman visitor at one of the life-boat stations was talking one evening to the motor mechanic near the life-boathouse. As they talked they watched an aeroplane passing overhead. It was just above them when the life-boat...
Category: Articles
Fishing Vessels
This Life-boat also performed important service on the 31st August. On that day a sudden gale from the N.N.W. was severely felt at all the northern stations. At day- light a considerable number of fishing craft were observed to be making for...
People and Places
New Year honours Her Majesty the Queen has honoured three people for their services to the RNLI in this year's New Year Honours: Mrs Marion Judge, lately member and officer of Wakefield ladies' lifeboat guild, has been made a Member,...
Category: Articles
God Help Our Men at Sea!
GOD help our men at sea! In firelit, pictured rooms, 'mid wine and flowers, And gleesome company.
The wild winds awe us, in our blithest hours, To sigh this prayer; And, lonely, with clenched hands, at night 'tis...
Category: Poetry
Coxswain/Mechanic Richard Hawkins of Great Yarmouth
Coxswain/Mechanic Richard Hawkins of Great Yarmouth and Gorleston first joined Dover lifeboat crew in 1959, becoming second assistant mechanic from 1974 to 1976 when he was appointed coxswain at Great Yarmouth and Gorleston. He was awarded a... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Hero and Louisa
MARGATE.—On the 24th November, during a strong gale increasing to a hurricane from E.N.E., with heavy squalls of rain and sleet, and a high sea, at about 9.30 p.n.,the Quiver Life-boat was launched in reply to signals of distress, and...
Charlotte
FISHGUARD.—On the 7th Oct. a very heavy S.S.W. gale was experienced here. Several vessels were lying at anchor in the roadstead, one of which, the schooner Charlotte, of Portmadoc, was anchored very far out, and fears were entertained for...
A Cheque for Over £430, Representing Money Raised Through Sponsored Swimming By Adults and Children, Being Handed Over to Commander F. H. Swann, O.B.E., R.N.V.R., the Newly Appointed
A cheque for over £430, representing money raised through sponsored swimming by adults and children, being handed over to Commander F. H. Swann, O.B.E., R.N.V.R., the newly appointed Chairman of the Institution, by Mr. D. Saxon-Harrold... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Letters
Thank you, Kinghorn I am writing to express my thanks to the Kinghorn D class inflatable lifeboat crew and the RNLI who over the years have made it possible for me to sail my sailboard off Kinghorn secure in the knowledge that if I do have a...
Category: Correspondence