LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Marquess of Ailsa
THE committee of management greatly regret the death in April of their colleague, the Marquess of Ailsa, at the age of ninety-one. Lord Ailsa was not only the oldest, but the senior member.
He joined the committee of manage...
Category: Obituaries
Shoreboat Services. For Which Rewards Were Given at the May, June and July Meetings of the Committee of Management
For which Rewards were given at the May, June and July Meetings of the Committee of Management.
Skegness, Lincolnshire.—At about 5 P.M. on the 23rd April an aeroplane fell into the sea about two hundred yards from the...
Category: Services
At Reigate Blackie (Below I) Races After Coins Thrown In the Long Bar at the Market Hotel and Takes Them to James Ware for the Lifeboat Box Bobbie (R) Delivers Papers To
At Reigate, Blackie (below, I.) races after coins thrown in the long bar at The Market Hotel and takes them to James Ware for the lifeboat box. Bobbie (r.) delivers papers to handicapped readers and earns Ip per head per day which his owner,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Codling Bank Lightvessel
SON HAD DIED Wicklow. On I5th November, 1964, the inspector of the Irish Lights Office told the coxswain that the son of the master of the Codling Bank lightvessel had just died and the master had asked to be brought ashore. The sea was...
The Men Who Man the Life-Boat
WHEN a shrieking, thund'rous tempest Breaks the stillness of the night, And a ship in seething waters Wages impotential fight; As the life-croft to the rescue, Gallant oarsmen speed afloat— Do we realise the perils Of the men who man the...
Category: Poetry
The Screw Steamer Barington
MAHTPOBT, CTOBEBUHB,—At about 4.30 P.M. on the 26th September a smaE screw steamer, the Sarington, of Maryport, was observed to be making for the port. The wiad was blowing a strong gale from the W. by S.W., accompanied by a very rough sea,...
The Nicholsons and the Donors' Families
The Nicholsons and the donors' families celebrate the first Tamar naming. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Grimsby Trawler Owners and the Life-Boat Service
FOR some time past it has been felt by the Institution that its Branch at Grimsby did not receive from the trawler owners the support which it bad reason to expect in view of the fact that Grimsby is the chief centre of the British Fishing...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat to the Rescue
By permission of-the Penny Illustrated Paper.
RlCHARQSON.
THE LIFE-BOAT TO THE RESCUE.
Category: Drawings
the Evelyn and Margaret, and the Courage
MAY 11TH. - SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE.
Cobles were out fishing, and at 11.45 in the morning, as a strong easterly wind was blowing, with a rough sea, the life-boat coxswain decided that it was not safe for them to come in...