LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

'Tis a stormy night, and the wild winds roar, The waves roll mountains high, And the Life-boat crew are called to the shore.

For a ship to the rocks is nigh. : Not a moment waver our heroes bold, As their boat they...

'Year of the Lifeboat' I pint Queens Ware mug by Wedgwood is illustrated (black on cream) with portrait of Sir William Hillary, founder of RNLI, and reproduction of painting of a lifeboat attending a wreck at the mouth of the Tyne,... - View image in PDF

WHEN 1 first visited Ring, Co. Waterford, in 1925, the Helvick Life-boat was housed at road-level in a kind of hanger built out over the water on stilts. A barometer was fixed outside, with the two legends familiar to seamen—'First rise...

ANOTHER of those terrible visitations which have so frequently of late years befallen the fishing population on the east coast of Scotland, has again occurred, by which calamity no less than 44 men, mostly in the prime of life, have lost...

Ponies and carriage lent to the branch by Mr. Herbert Hagenback, of the Tower Circus, Blackpool.. - View image in PDF

Lenvick, Sunday August 19, 1979:52ft Arun lifeboat So dian manoeuvring Norwegian fishing vessel Fr yvarden alongside Lenvick Harbour after towing her about 60 miles to safety.

Fr yvarden was disabled by a net round her... - View image in PDF

ALAS! How many wholesale shipwrecks have the last few months witnessed! How many human beings, who might otherwise, like ourselves, have been now enjoying the many and varied blessings which life affords, have been cut off by these sad, sad...

IT is now six years since the first experiments were made with Motor Caterpillar Tractors for launching Lifeboats off flat beaches. Tractors have been placed at a number of Stations, and although the type used has not been suitable for...