LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Fisherman's Wife
WILL the storm ne'er blow over ? How the blast sweeps by the door! Broader and broader grows the line of white foam around the shore.
I sit cowering by the window, too sick at heart to pray; "Will the great God...
Category: Poetry
The Life-Boat Station
TUB following brief description and diagrams illustrative of a complete Life-boat Establishment, including the House for the protection of the boat, will serve to convey an idea of the general character of one of the 273 Life-boat Stations...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution—(continued.)
PADSTOW, CORNWALL.—On the night of the 24th October, 1868, during a whole | gale from the W.N.W., the steamer Au- gusta, of Bristol, went on the Doom Bar i Sand. When her signals of distress were i seen from the shore, the " City of...
Category: Services
The Berwick Life-Boat
The Life-boat Grace Darling was launched on the 3rd February to assist the crew of the Berwick-on-Tweed Life- boat to make the Holy Island Harbour safely.
The Berwick Life-boat had put off in a strong northerly gale and...
the Silver Cloud
Coverack, Cornwall.—On the 22nd September a fisherman took three visitors out fishing in his motor launch, the Silver Cloud, of Coverack. They were expected back by seven in the evening, but as they had not returned by midnight, and anxiety...
The Lynwell Lightvessel
DENTAL CARES Skegness, Lincolnshire. At u a.m.
on 15th January, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a man aboard the Lynwell lightvessel required urgent dental treatment and the use of the life-boat...
The South Rock Lightvessel
Cloughey, and Donaghadee, Co. Down.— At three o'clock in the morning of the 31st of January, 1950, the Tara coast- guard telephoned the Cloughey life- boat authorities that the South Rock lightvessel had fired a white rocket. At 3.15 he...
The Lady Louisa
RHYL.—A steamer was observed flying signals of distress about three miles N.N.E. of Rhyl pier, in a strong W.N.W.
breeze and a heavy sea at 5 P.M. on the 5th February. The Life-boat Jane Martin put off to her assistance...
The Sailing Boat Ripple
Torbay, Devon.—At 8.55 on the morn- ing of the 30th of September, 1954, the Brixham coastguard telephoned that a small yacht was burning flares south- west of Thatcher Rock. At 9.12, at high tide, the life-boat George Shee put out. The sea...
Notes to the Accounts
NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS 1 LIFE-BOATS The cost of replacing the existing fleet is approximately £13,000,000 (1970 £12,000,000). The committee has at present resolved to replace certain life-boats, the cost of which is estimated at...
Category: Accounts