LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Life-Boatman's Sigh In the Tempest
JESU bless oar slender boat, By the torrent swept along; Loud its threatening—let them not Drown the music of a song Breathed Thy mercy to implore, Where these troubled waters roar! Guide our bark among the waves; Through the surf our...
Category: Poetry
The R.N.L.I Looks Ahead
For the first time in its history the annual meeting of the Royal National Life-boat Institution was held at the Royal Festival Hall, London, when the Chairman, Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E., K.C.B., D.S.O., referred to the decisions...
Category: Meetings
After the Wreck
ONLY a broken rudder, only a ruin'd sail— Only a shatter'd topmast, only a sea-bird's wail.
Here is the good ship's pinnace—all of her that is left— There are the yards and rigging—a tangled woof and...
Category: Poetry
Queen of the Fleet
On the afternoon of the 13th January a ketch was seen to anchor off Southsea -Castle and close to broken water, and as she was near to the shore and possibly bumping it, the coxswain of the Life-boat Heyland was informed, the crew were...
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain Harold Bradford of Exmouth.
Coxswain Bradford first joined the Exmouth crew in 1925. He was bowman from January 1939 to August 1943, when he became second coxswain.
Category: Articles
The Submarine Tijgerhaai
Weymouth, Dorset.—At four o'clock on the morning of the 19th of October, 1955, the Wyke Regis coastguard telephoned that the submarine Tijger- haai, of the Royal Netherlands Navy, had grounded in Weymouth Bay.
Half an...
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain Jeremiah O'Connell, of Valentia, Co. Kerry,He has been coxswain since 1946..
Category: Articles
The Keel Boat Courage
Scarborough, Yorkshire.—At 9.20 on the morning of the 10th of February, 1953, the coastguard telephoned that a fishing boat was off Hayburn Wyke in worsening weather. As a whole gale was blowing from the east-north-east, causing a very rough...
The Arklow Lightvessel
Arldow, Co. Wicklow. At 10.25 a-mon I3th September, 1964, an official of the Irish Lights Office telephoned the honorary secretary to request that the master of the Arklow lightvessel be brought ashore to see his mother, who was dangerously...
Above the Real Thing
Above. The real thing - visitors wait their turn to board the Arun class Duke of Atho/l.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs