LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

BOGGED and rough the rocks of Albion's coast Stretch forth into the billows reef on reef, And many gallant vessels, tempest tost, There yearly come to grief.

Still, week by week the weary winter through, Braving the...

The night was dark and stormy, The waves were rough and high ; A gallant ship was tossing,— Her crew were like to die.

But see! they've launched the life-boat; 'Tis manned by Britons brave, Who risk their life for...

CAISTER.—On the morning of the 23rd February, 1896, the Cockle Light-vessel fired guns and rockets. The Life-boat Covent Garden was taken out of her house, and while she was being launched a coastguardman arrived and informed the coxswain...

LAST December the Institution received from Mr. F. 0. Brown, of Bedford Park, London, a cheque for £28 10s., the amount which he had collected during the year in his Life-boat box. At the same time, he said that owing to ill- health...

At 8.30 P.M., on the 22nd January, the Coastguard at Rye Harbour reported that a vessel in the bay was making distress signals.

Without delay the Life-boat John William Dudley was launched and proceeded to the craft,...

In three years of war the life-boat service has not gone undamaged by enemy action. Of nineteen of its life-boats which took part in the evacuation of the B.E.F. from Dunkirk in May and June, 1940, one, the Hythe boat, never returned, and...

DON'T you see the signal seaward? Can't you hear the rocket scream? Men and women start and listen, children waken from a dream; All the village wakes to action, all the storm is on the yell—- Buckle on your life-belts, brothers!...

THE EVER INCREASING SPEED of Scientific and technological advance over recent years has naturally made itself felt in the design, construction and equipment of lifeboats throughout the world. So rapid have these changes been in the second...