LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lady of the Lake
SIDMOUTH AND EXMOUTH. — On the 29th March, the smack Lady of the Lake, of Portsmouth, was seen to show signals of distress off High Peak. A strong E. to E.N.E. gale was blowing at the time,accompanied by snow. The Lifeboat Bimington,...
The Wife of the Life-Boat Man
THE Life-boat goes o'er the stormy sea, for a ship is in distress; The gun booms out on the water wild, and the brave men closer press; And John has gone with the other men away from our fireside warm, Out where the maddened breakers...
Category: Poetry
A Lifeboat Cake Made By Mrs Ann Griffin of the West Bromwich and Wednesbury Branch
A lifeboat cake made by Mrs Ann Griffin of the West Bromwich and Wednesbury branch was the star attraction at the dinner and dance held by the branch at the Gala Suite, West Bromwich. Weighing 25lb the bottom layer, which represented the sea... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
In All Respects Ready for Sea By Joan Davies
SPEAKING AT the annual general meeting of the RNLI last April, Major-General Ralph Farrant, Chairman of the Committee of Management, made it quite clear that, whatever economies might be necessary in these days of inflation, the first...
Category: Articles
Services by Life-boats
During the year life-boats were launched 1,081 times. Of these launches 640 were to vessels and aeroplanes in distress through attack by the enemy or from other causes due to the war.
The Record Month by Month 1940 January...
Category: Services
. . . .Received By Way of Exchange, a Box of Chocolates
.... received by way of exchange, a box of chocolates. Alison, whose obvious surprise and delight caught the photographer's attention, is the daughter of a member of the Civil Service Life-boat Fund's executive committee.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Notes of the Quarter
A PASSAGE up the Thames by the new Walmer life-boat in March, 1959, gave civil servants in appreciable numbers an opportunity of inspecting one of the boats which has been provided for the Institution by the civil servants' own...
Category: Articles
The Society of Arts and Life-Saving Apparatus
THE "Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce," com- monly known as the " Society of Arts," as most of our readers will be aware, offers from time to time its Gold Medal to be competed for by...
Category: Articles
The End of the Beginning
On 30 November 1993 the Mersey class lifeboat Freddie Cooperarrived at Aldeburgh to mark the beginning of a new era - an era in which there are fast lifeboats at every one of the RNLI's stations.
It was also...
Category: Articles
The Reports of the Meteorological Council of the Royal Society for 1889 and 1890
THESE reports contain matter of very considerable general interest, showing, as they do, what has been and is being done to perfect the system of weather forecasts in this our ever-changing climate, as well as to compile a register of the...
Category: Articles