LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
On a Visit to Hastings Earlier This Year Hm Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Patron of the Rnli for 43 Years Stops for a Word With Coxswain John 'Joe' Martin and Members of the Lifeboat Cre
On a visit to Hastings earlier this year HM Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, Patron of the RNLI for 43 years, stops for a word with Coxswain John 'Joe' Martin and members of the lifeboat crew.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Present Life-Boat House and Slipway Were Built on the Beach a Mile from Wells Because of the North Winds. Also Shown Is the New Inshore Rescue Boat House. the Photograph (Below) Is of Th
The present life-boat house and slipway were built on the beach a mile from Wells because of the north winds.
Also shown is the new inshore rescue boat house. The photograph (below) is of the memorial on the quay at Wells... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Best Essay In the Competition
The Best Essay in the Competition.
By BKENDA DARLINGTON (aged 9J), of Summerbank Girls' School, Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent.
THE QUALITIES THAT MAKE A GOOD LIFE-BOATMAN.
Just as a man...
Category: Articles
She Had to Reverse Off the Beach Launchers Stood By to Re-Connect Winch Wire Should It Be Necessary
. . . she had to reverse off the beach. Launchers stood by to re-connect winch wire, should it be necessary.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The American Ship A.Z.
On the 20th October, a large ship was observed to be stranded on the Blackwater Bank, when the Cahore life-boat was again brought into requisition. Before reaching the bank, the ship was observed to have got off and to make sail to the...
"The Life-Boat Men."
The following are the words of a spirited and striking song, set to music by the well-known composer Stephen Adams, recently published by Messrs. Boosey & Co., of Regent Street, London. The words, it will be observed, are by F....
Category: Songs
The Song of the Life-Boat
When the tempest raves, and the angry waves Break crashing on the shore ; When the vessel cracks, and drops in her tracks, I face the ocean's roar.
I dance o'er the heaving surge and the foam, For the stormy sea is...
Category: Poetry
The Red Cross of the Sea
"Peace hath her Victories No less renown'd than War."
THUS wrote the great poet of a war which he deemed, as we do our mighty conflict of to-day, one of Liberty against Tyranny, of the oppressed against...
Category: Articles
Firecrest the 15' steamdriven Paddleboat Built By David Garrick She Is Powered By a Single Coalfired Boiler Developing One Quarter Horsepower
Firecrest, the 15'steamdriven paddleboat built by David Garrick. She is powered by a single coalfired boiler developing one quarter horsepower.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs