LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Appeal on Behalf of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
The Angel of Death laughed aloud in his glee, As he wildly careered o'er the pitiless sea : To the winds and the waters he spake but a word, And the wind and the waters grew mad as they heard.
He laid his cold hand on...
Category: Poetry
R.I.B.S
Newhaven, Sussex - At 2.30 p.m. on 26th July, 1969, the coxswain of the life-boat, while at sea on exercise, received a radio message from the fishing vessel Edith May that the motor boat R.I.B.S., with one man aboard, had broken down 12...
Life-Boat Services In 1892
Agenese, brig, of Sandefjord—as- sisted to save vessel.
Alice, ketch, of Milford 2 Alonso, 8.8., of Hull 7 Arbroath fishing boats—remained in attendance.
Arne,& schooner.of Soon—assisted to...
Category: Articles
Ellen
The Life-boat, John Burch, had just returned from exercise and been replaced in her house on the 25th August, when a vessel was observed near the Scroby Sands with her sails blown away. The vessel brought up but commenced to drive on to the...
Captain Gordon Butterworth (I) Chief Marine Superintendent Royal Fleet Auxiliary Presented a £14000
Captain Gordon Butterworth (I), Chief Marine Superintendent, Royal Fleet Auxiliary, presented a £14,000 cheque to Rear Admiral W. J. Graham, director of the Institution, on board RFA Sir Lamorak at Marchwood, Southampton, on April... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Disaster of 63 Years Ago Recalled
AMONG the names of honorary workers to whom awards have been made this year is Mrs. Ellen Surman, who for twenty-seven years has been an honorary worker at Neath, Glamorganshire.
In accepting the reward, Mrs. Surman...
Category: Articles
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OCTOBER 10TH. - AITH, SHETLANDS. A distress signal had been reported, but a long search, in which a naval vessel and a Sunderland aeroplane took part, was without result.
- Rewards, £20 13s. 6d..
Manne de Ciel
GREAT YARMOUTH.—At 11.30 A.M. on the 18th January, a ketch was observed on shore on the North Beach. The Lifeboat Abraham Thomas immediately proceeded to the spot, and succeeded in rescuing the crew, consisting of four men.
Advent
Dungeness, Kent.—At 7.57 on the morning of the 17th of March, 1957, a message was received from a fisher- man that a vessel was ashore at Great- stone. The life-boat Charles Cooper Henderson was launched at 8.25 in a smooth sea. There was a...
Warragaburra
Dover, Kent.—At one in the morning of the 6th of October, 1948, the Eastern Arm Signal Station reported that a yacht was making S.O.S. signals in Langdon Bay,, and at 1.20 the motor life-boat J. B. Proudfoot was...