LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Sailor's Mother
One morning (raw it was and wet— A foggy day in winter time) A woman on the road I met, Not old, though something past her prime: Majestic in her person, tall and straight; And like a Roman matron's was her mien and...
Category: Poetry
Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
THE object of this Institution, as declared in its title, is to afford assistance to every Shipwrecked Person around the coasts of the United Kingdom.
The chief means by which it hopes to carry this object into effect are—...
Category: Advertisement
The S.S. City of Bristol and the S.S. Selnes
Southend'On-Sea, Essex.—At 5.40 in the evening, on the 26th of November, 1950, the pier head signal station re- ported a message from the Walton-on- Naze coastguard. The S.S. City of Bristol, of Glasgow, had been in collision with the...
The Sir Godfrey Baring, of Clacton
Ox the llth of June Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., who, in the Birthday Honours List was made a Knight of the British Empire, presented to the life-boat station at Clacton-on-Sea, Ess'ex, the new life-boat which bears his name, and Lady Baring...
Category: Inaugurations
Letters
Lottery—win and share This morning I had numerous bills in the first post and was wondering how to pay them when I opened your letter of July 21 notifying me of my tremendous luck in winning £1,000 in the RNLI national lottery. I thank...
Category: Correspondence
R.N.L.B.I. Headquarters' Staff In the War
IN The Life-Boat for November, 1918, it was indicated that in due course an effort would be made to furnish some details regarding the war services ren- dered by members of the Institution's staff in the Great War. At that time —the...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat House
The boats of the ROTAL NATIONAL LIFB-BOAT IHSTITUTIOH and all belonging to them are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains and under the general superintendence of local honorary committees...
Category: Articles
The Town of Ipswich Lifeboat
THE town of Ipswich has come forward in a novel and spirited manner in support of the life-boat cause. Although not actually on the coast, it has occurred to benevolent gentlemen resident at Ipswich, that inland towns might especially be...
Category: Articles
Coastguard Lt-Cdr Tim Fetherston-Dilke the New Chief Coastguard Talks of the Re-Organisation Taking Place Within the Servjce
Coastguard . . .
LT-CDR TIM FETHERSTON-DILKE, the new 'Chief, talks of the re-organisation taking place within Her Majesty's Coastguard, emphasising that its long-standing traditional relationship with the lifeboat...
Category: Articles
Above: the Wrecked Anzio Off the Lincolnshire Coast In 1966 Top Right: the Lifeboat Cottages at Spurn Head Are to Be Replaced
Above: The wrecked Anzio off the Lincolnshire coast in 1966. Top right: The lifeboat cottages at Spurn Head are to be replaced.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs