LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is a repro- duction of a painting by Claire Leonard, which was exhibited at the Royal Institute of Oil Painters and which Mrs.
Leonard has kindly presented to the Royal National Life-boat...
Category: Articles
The Lizard - West Division
The Lizard is the Southernmost point of the British mainland, a bold promontory that juts out to form a gatepost to the English Channel.
The station's Tyne class lifeboat is housed in Kilcobben Bay - the boathouse with... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Worthwhile Find
Whilst turning out a drawer today I came upon some pictures showing the Worthing lifeboat and crews, we wondered if readers would be interested in seeing this cutting (left).
For some time we lived in the building right... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Child's Help
THE Bexhill-on-Sea Branch organized recently a Life-boat Sale. As a result the following letter came from a little girl :— " I have made a very nice little doll's bed and bought a little doll and made clothes for it. The doll...
Category: Articles
Holders of Lloyd's Medals
Cambridge, I May 1852.
SIR,—In the narrative of the lamentable wreck of the New Commercial at the Bris- sons, Cornwall, given in the April number of the Life-Boat Journal, it is stated by mis- take that I am the " only...
Category: Articles
G.C.B.
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—In the morn- ing of the 9th of December, 1948, a strong southerly gale was blowing.
At 8.35 a barge was seen to be in diffi- culty three-quarters of a mile west of the pier, and the motor life-boat...
Rescue By the Mablethorpe Life-Boat. 28th November, 1912. By Charles Moss, Author of "Bible Angels," Etc
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Brave little Mablethorpe, Fair little Mablethorpe, Haven of rest for the young and the old; Where, in the summertime, Silver seas lazily Bipple o'er sands of a glittering gold.II.
England is proud...
Category: Poetry
A Fishing Coble
CULLERCOATS.—On the 10th January the Palmerston Life-boat put off to the aid of a fishing-coble which had been caught in a very high sea, rendering it dangerous for her to cross the bar. With the assistance of the Life-boat the coble safely...
£43 for a Cigarette-Tin
THE Institution has received a gift of £43 5s. from the Union Castle Mail Steamship Company. It was the result of an auction on board the Warwick Castle of a cigarette-tin engraved by the captain..
Category: Donations
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Portrush, Co. Antrim.—23rd November, 1938. A boat had been reported in distress, but nothing could be found and it was thought that what was taken for a distress signal was probably lightning.—Rewards, £14 9s. 6d..