LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Riddle of the Sands
The Riddle of the Sands
by Erskine Childers
Review by Sarah Bass
As Summer draws to a close, Carruthers is stuck in London at his Home Office job while his friends socialise outside of the city....
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat
TtrE day is spent ; the ied sun sinks Beneath the Western wave; The light bark gaily holds her course With her crew so stout and brave.
A few short hours, and all is changed; For loudly howls the Wast, And o'er the...
Category: Poetry
The Fundraisers
In brief A GENEROUS donation of £500 has been received from JAVA (the Jaguar. Alacrity, Vivacity Association) which is affiliated to the Royal Yachting Association.
AFTER Fort William and District branch invited the...
Category: Articles
The Three Mastered Schooner Guilia, of Palemo
On the 10th Oc- tober a three-masted schooner was seen at the entrance to the River Tay with a signal of distress flying, the wind blowing a. gale from S.E., with a high sea running. The steam-tug Sampson being sent from Dundee to her aid,...
The wreck of the Hindlea
The scars left by the wreck of the Royal Charter run deep among local people. The storm and the appalling loss of life have become a grim legend and on the centenary of the shipwreck in October 1959 a service of remembrance was held at...
Category: Articles
The Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Mr.
Harry Finch, who has been a member of the life-boat crew at Walton and Frinton, Essex, since May, 1907, except for the years 1914 to 1918, when he was on war service. He has taken part...
Category: Articles
The Cooperative Bank
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Category: Advertisement
Only 43 of the 65 Students That Took Part In the Gruelling Lyke Wake Walk Finished They Came from South Shields Marine and Technical College and Raised £555 for the Rnli Here Heather Ho
Only 43 of the 65 students that took part in the gruelling Lyke Wake Walk finished.
They came from South Shields Marine and Technical College and raised £555 for the RNLI. Here Heather Howard, the only girl Lyke Wake... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution—Continued
GREAT YARMOUTH AND CAISTER. — On the 24th September, 1871, while it •was blowing strongly from the S.E., and a heavy sea was running, a vessel at anchor on a lee shore, near Caister, ex- hibited signals of distress. The No. 1 Life-boat on...
Category: Services
Wreck Chart of the British Isles for the Year 1898-99
FOR THE YEAR 1898-99.
SHOWING ALSO THE PRESHNT LIFE BOAT STATIONS.
Of THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE BOAT INSTITUTION i-JW -•% SUM MART Dar-lfll, (flf yrOI- rndai tAt. 30* Kuir !SS3. thr fiuJni f ,if...
Category: Charts