LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Launch Golden Hind
Barmoutb, Merionethshire. — At three in the afternoon on the 3rd of October, 1950, the coxswain and others saw the launch Golden Hind, of Plymouth, approaching Barmouth Bar. There was a heavy sea, with a strong south- westerly breeze blowing...
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
WALTON-ON-NAZE, ESSEX.—At 9.30 A.M. on the 26th Feb., 1904, a telephone message was received from the Gunfleet Lighthouse stating that a vessel was aground on the sands. The crew and helpers of the Life-boat James Stevens No. 14 were at once...
Category: Services
Portrait on the Cover
The portrait on the cover is of Coxswain Michael Harrington, of Bal- timore. He first joined the Baltimore crew in 1943 and was second coxswain from 1945 to 1950. He was appointed coxswain on the 1st of April, 1950.
Since...
Category: Articles
The Botnere Romanies
The Botnere Romanies, one of the more unusual entries in she 1981 Shrewsbury branch raft race on the River Severn, an event held on the last Saturday in Julv each vear. More than 60 craft took part in the mile-and-a-quarter race, raising... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
After the War.
It must not be thought that because receipts exeeeded expenditure, by over £100,000 the Institution is getting more money than it needs. That £100,000 would in a normal year have all been spent in building new boats, and, if the...
Category: Articles
From the Fighting Services.
In 1942 the Navy, Army and Air Force, with their Women's Services, contributed £19,385. All three contributions were much larger than in 1941. The Navy's was twelve times as much as in the last year of peace; the Army's...
Category: Articles
WINDOWS INTO THE PAST
A stunning collection of glass plate negatives brings the RNLI’s lifesaving history into a new light
The RNLI’s Heritage Team are always on the look-out for artefacts and materials that document the lifesaving work of the...
Category: Articles
The Hurricanes In the West Indies
ALTHOUGH the scene of the recent terrible disasters, caused by the hurricanes in the West Indies, is far distant from the sphere of the operations of THE NATIONAL LIF£-BOAT INSTITUTION, which finds ample scope for the full exercise of...
Category: Articles
Across the Revetment of the Mersey
THERE was a full southerly gale blowing off-New Brighton last September 15th, with frequent squalls of rain, and the sea was very rough. Soon after half- past one in the afternoon the coastguard noticed a three-masted schooner at anchor in...
Category: Services
The Life-Boat
IN safety we sit in our homes, I And read about storms on the sea, ' Of the dangers which men undergo, I And how brave in the danger they be.
We read of the waves mountain high, | Of the wind and its...
Category: Poetry