LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
When God Comes Home from Sea
The life-boat skims the waters, the moon sails down the sky, The angry wind is blowing and the waves are mounting high; A line of clouds are floating above the ocean's breast, And every geabird falters with a feeling of...
Category: Poetry
Travelscope
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Fit for the Job
The request for medical assistance from a German cargo ship led to a call for Margate's Mersey class lifeboat, Leonard Kent, on New Year's Eve 1 998 when one of the ship's crew had to be evacuated after badly breaking his leg...
Category: Articles
Institution's Divisional Inspectors of Lifeboats By Joan Davies
A MONDAY MORNING IN JUNE, and a divisional inspector of lifeboats waits on an airfield for an early flight. An odd place, perhaps, to pick up the story of the day to day life of a DI, but then this DI's territory takes in an island and...
Category: Articles
Eleven Years on a Look at the Atlantic 21 Rigid Inflatable Lifeboat Some of Those Who Know Her Well
THE ATLANTIC 21 rigid inflatable has proved one of the most successful of the Institution's modern lifeboats and 30 are now on station. With an overall length of 22ft 9in, a rigid GRP hull and inflatable neoprene tube 'bulwarks',...
Category: Articles
News from the Branches. 1st February to 30th April, 1938
Mrs. JANE M. PEPPER, honorary secretary, Mansfield branch.
Mr. GEOROE PEARCEY, worker, Exmouth and Budleigh Salterton branch.
Mrs. ROSABEL STEVENS, worker, Ladies' Life-boat Guild,...
Category: Branches
The Life-Boat Stations of the United Kingdom
XVI.—BROADSTAIRS.
The Samuel Morrison. Collins, 36 feet long, 9 feet 2 inches beam, 12 oars.
THE Broadstairs Life-boat of the Institution is one of the largest class, and well adapted for ser- vice as a...
Category: Articles
Accounts of Services by Life-boats (8)
SEPTEMBER
Launches 52. Lives rescued 115.
SEPT. 2ND. - WICK, CAITHNESS-SHIRE.
At 6.36 A.M. the coastguard informed the life-boat authorities that the trawler Washington, of Grimsby,...
Category: Services
Life-Boat Services Round the Coasts
LAUNCHES AND LIVES SAVED BY LIFE-BOATS AND IRBs 1st September to 30th November: Launches 401, lives saved 195 SEPTEMBER SCOTTISH DISTRICT Wick, Caithness-shire - At 3.50 p.m.
on r6th September, 1966, a message was received...
Category: Services