LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
My Pilot. (A Sailor's Hymn.)
THEBE'S a port beyond the sky-line, Though its lights I cannot see, But my Pilot's in the offing, And He's watching there for me.
Though my bark be old and batter'd, And is wanting many a spar, Yet He'll...
Category: Songs
Top Award For Polzeath Five
Sunny days at the beach may seem like a distant memory, but the bravery and skill of five RN Ll lifeguards last Summer has recently been recognised with the Alison Saunders Lifeguarding Award- one of our top...
Category: Articles
Two Vessels
Again on the night of the 17th December, I in answer to signals of distress in Cardiff | Eoads, this Life-boat went off when it was ! blowing hard at N.W., and remained by \ two vessels which had come into collision and until they were out...
Dagenite Batteries
LIFEBOATS DEMAND THE DEPENDABILITY OF DACENITE So does your car. Make sure you choose a Dagenite Easifil-it means what it says. Dagenite Batteries are used extensively by the R.N.L.I.
They don't take chances..
Category: Advertisement
Cover Picture
Bembridge lifeboat, Jack Shayler and the Lees, at full speed. She is a 48ft 6in Solent class lifeboat, built in 1969. She has a steel hull and is launched down a slipway from her boathouse. The photograph was taken by David... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Portsmouth's Atlantic 21 City of Portsmouth
Portsmouth's Atlantic 21 City of Portsmouth pictured earlier on exercise. During the service for which the Thanks on Vellum was awarded she was operating in gale force winds and a stong tide which kicked up seas so steep that she could... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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PATIENT TAKEN OFF ISLAND ESf NEAR GALE Howth, Co. Dublin. At 8.20 on the morning of the 6th April, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a message had been received from the Baily lighthouse keeper that a suspected case...
Mayflower
When the mail steamer Isle of Sark arrived from Jersey on the morning of the 9th January, the captain reported to the harbour master that a small steamer appeared to be in difficulties about three miles S.W. of Sark. He had seen large...
Blackpool Illuminated
Jon Jones visits Blackpool's new all-singing, all-dancing lifeboat station and gets thoroughly rained on in the process..
Blackpool, with its Pleasure Beach, Illuminations and Golden Mile of amusements, night clubs,...
Category: Articles
An Aeroplane (8)
Margate, Kent, and Southend-on- Sea, Essex.—9th September, 1939.
An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea off Leysdown. The Margate life-boat was launched just after eleven at night in a thick fog and reached Leysdown...