LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Bell Buoy
BALLYWALTER, Co. DOWN.— On the evening of the 4th April, 1881, information was brought from the Coastguard Station that the Bell Buoy, a vessel which is placed about two miles off the shore to warn vessels off the Stullmartin Reef, had...
The Fundraisers
Rallying round Neil Parullo and Nairn Brown entered a 72-hour classic car rally from Land's End to John O'Groats and raised a total of £5,100 for Strathmore branch - making them the clear winners of the shield awarded to the car...
Category: Articles
Sketch of the Progress Made In the Construction of Coast Life-Boats. 1785-1900. No. 4
THE years 1850-1, next to the year 1785, were those of the greatest importance in the history of the Coast Life-boat, and in fact of- the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION also, for, as has often been pointed out, apathy in the Life-boat...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Classified
LIFEBOAT CLASSIFIED TIME AND TIDE at your fingertips TIDEMASTER' PILOT • Quart accuracy • Guaranteed working depth 75ft • Clear luminous hands and batons • Automatic calendar • Quick set date change • Tide bezel' monitors tidal state...
Category: Advertisement
Letters
Thanks, Whitby (see photograph, page 187) I am one of the pupils of Brinsworth Whitehill Junior School and I am writing to say how grateful we are to the RNLI at Whitby for rescuing us from the cliffs on Tuesday, March 19. It was the second...
Category: Correspondence
Relatives and Friends Watching the Arrival from Scrabster of the Kirkwall Lifeboat Bringing Home to Hoy the Seven Coffins
Relatives and friends watching the arrival from Scrabster of the Kirkwall lifeboat bringing home to Hoy the seven coffins. …. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Bradford Editions
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Our Sailors
THE tide is full, the wind is fair, The hour is striking now, And word goes round, with hearty cheer, "Up anchor to the bow." The capstan creaks as bars are manned By sailors stout and true; The captain smiles as from the strand...
Category: Poetry
Margaret, Boy Don and Alsace Lorraine
APRIL 24TH. - PENLEE, CORNWALL. At 6.30 A.M. the coastguard reported a fishing boat in distress S.W. of Penzer Point, and the motor life-boat W. and S. was launched at 6.50 A.M.
An E.S.E. gale was blowing, with a rough...
Dear Reader
As we draw into the last quarter of 2012, we can reflect on a year of awards and celebrations.
Our Patron continued her travels around the RNLI (see page 4), we appointed an inspiring new Council member (28), and...
Category: Articles