LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Life-Boat's Crew
Is it the hireling's greed of grain Urges them o'er the seething main ? Is it to glean with wrecker's glee The doleful harvest of the sea ? Is it to grasp with iron grip The riddled flag of the foeman's ship— To haul to port...
Category: Poetry
The kapok enquiry
Kapok offers great advantages over cork as regards weight, buoyancy, the ease with which it can be adjusted to any shape, and the protection which it affords against cold. Kapok is a vegetable fibre found chiefly in the East Indies, the best...
Category: Articles
Wild is the wind
The wind brings us clear blue skies and storms, makes a sailboat sail and chills us to the bone. But have you ever wondered where it comes from? Here the Lifeboat gives you a beginner’s guide to wind and its extreme effects<...
Category: Articles
The Whitby Pulling and Sailing Life-Boat Leaving the Barge After Rescuing the Crew of Four. The Whitby Motor Life-Boat Is at the Entrance to the Harbour
The Whitby Pulling and Sailing Life-Boat Leaving The Barge After Rescuing The Crew of Four The Whitby Motor Life-Boat Is at The Entrance To The Harbour. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Humber Lightvessel
The Humber, Yorkshire.—At 7.45 P.M.
on the 17th December, 1937, the lifeboat watchman reported two rockets in a south-easterly direction. A strong N.W. breeze was blowing, with a rough sea, and squalls of rain and sleet.<...
The Phillip Rex
The Humber, Yorkshire.—Just after seven o'clock in the evening of the 9th of August, 1948, the Withernsea coast- guard reported a small motor yacht in difficulties two miles south of Withern- sea, and the motor life-boat City of Bradford...
The Lady Violet
MARCH 10TH. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX. At 4.30 in the afternoon the Fairlight coastguard telephoned that all the fishing boats had returned except the Lady Violet, which appeared to be in difficulties to the southsouth- east, about one and a...
Into the Dragon's Mouth
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 156 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to December 31st, 1949 ...
76,724 Into the Dragon's Mouth IN the...
Category: Services
Landing the Rescued
Seventy passengers from the Scillonian which went aground in a fog (See page 291). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Storeyard's Children's Party
THE fifth Christmas party given by the Staff at the Storeyard at Poplar, with the help of the Staff at Headquarters, to poor children of the district, took place on the 22nd December last at the Poplar Town Hall. Over 150 children were...
Category: Articles