LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Life-Boat Saturday Fund
IN our Life-boat Saturday Fund article published in the February number last year, we ventured to prophesy that better results would be obtained by the Life- boat Saturday workers in 1901 than in the preceding year, and we are only too...
Category: Articles
News Cont
Appealing start The Crew Training Appeal is seeking funds to cover the cost of crew training at individual lifeboat stations and is approaching local businesses, trusts, and individuals for donations. It will cost some £20,000 for...
Category: Articles
What's on this Spring
The RNLI is out and about this Spring. There’s a fascinating exhibition on tour, our big annual awards ceremony, and lots of fundraising fun to be had – see you there!
AGM and APA...
Category: Articles
In Memory of Robert Theophilus Garden. Esq.
IN MEMORY OF ROBERT THEOPHILUS GARDEN, ESQ., OP RIVER LYONS, PHTLIPSTOWN, KING'S COUNTY, IRELAND.
DIED 10TH OCTOBER, 1862, AGED 73 YEARS.
" Him that cometh (o Me I will in no wise cast out."...
Category: Obituaries
Building the Fast Slipway Lifeboat—Part I: Preparations
PART I: PREPARATIONS CONSTRUCTION HAS BEGUN of tWO prototypes of the RNLI's new 47ft fast slipway lifeboat. The boats are to be built by Fairey Marine at Cowes, Isle of Wight, but the start of building only comes as the culmination of...
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
Panachrandos
Walmer, Ken*.—At 5.50 P.M. on the * 19th October, 1939, eight hours after the life-boat had brought back the doctor from the Dutch steamer Mirza, a message was received from the doctor that the senior naval officer, Ramsgate, wished him to...
The S.S. Pilcomayo
DOCTOR TAKEN TO BADLY INJURED SEAMAN Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. At seven o'clock on the evening of the 9th April, 1962, the police at Avonmouth dock informed the honorary secretary that a man had been seriously injured on board a ship...
The American Ship A.Z.
On the 20th October, a large ship was observed to be stranded on the Blackwater Bank, when the Cahore life-boat was again brought into requisition. Before reaching the bank, the ship was observed to have got off and to make sail to the...
Crimond
The motor Life- boat John Ryburn performed a very good service in the early hours of the morning of 10th February. Between 1 and 2 o'clock an urgent call came from Sanday for the Life-boat to proceed to a vessel which had stranded on the...