LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Third Boat
The Third Boat by Leila Mackinlay (Ward Lock & Co. Ltd., I2s. 6d.) takes its title from a Manx superstition and this pleasant but somewhat fragmentary tale is rarely out of sight or sound of the sea. Moving from Morecambe Bay to the Isle...
Category: Articles
Fred Olsen Fund Another
Fred Olsen fund another Fred Olsen, who have been fantastic supporters of the RNLI for several years, are also very close to completing the funding of another Atlantic 75. In fact, Its probably more accurate to say that the passengers and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Royal Human Society Award
Anstruther Lifeboat Crew Member Barry Gourlay has received an award from the Royal Humane Society for his rescue of a capsized kayaker on 19 September 2010. Barry was out for a Sunday walk with his wife and daughter when he spotted the man...
Category: Articles
Window In a Parish Church
THE coxswain of the Tynemouth life- boat, Mr. P. Denham Christie, and the crew had the happy idea of presenting to the Seamen's Chapel of Christ Church, North Shields, which is the parish church of Tynemouth, a stained glass window. The...
Category: Articles
The Safety Fishing-Boat of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
The accompanying figures show the general form, the nature of the fittings, aircompartments, shifting-coamings, and hatches of one of the safety boats, 40 feet in length and 14 feet in breadth.
In figs. 1 and 2, the...
Category: Articles
Mary Tatham
From the coast near this i port, on the 2ud January, by the first light 1 of breaking day, the masts of a vessel were | observed looming faintly through the haze of a S.W. storm. It was presently ascer- tained that the vessel herself...
The Life-Boat
" MAN the life-boat! man the life-boat! Hearts of oak, the tempest brave; See, the shatter'd vessel staggers; Hound her billows foam and rave.
See the ark of refuge launching: See her hardy crew prepare For the...
Category: Poetry
Royal National Life-Boat Institution. Its Object and Work
(Supported solely by Voluntary Contributions.) ITS OBJECT AND WORK.
The work of the Institution mainly consists of— 1. Building, equipping and maintaining Life-boats, transporting carriages, boathouses and slipways,...
Category: Articles
Listings
New D class at Trearddur BayNew D class at Trearddur BayThe crew of the Treaddur Bay lifeboat have already undergone intensive training on the new lifeboat.
On average the station's lifeboat is launched over 50 times a...
Category: Articles
An Aeroplane (1)
Dungeness, Kent, and Hastings, Sussex.
—15th September, 1938. A steamer had reported that an aeroplane had come down in the sea, but nothing could be found.—Rewards: Dungeness,.