LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Meetings of the Committee
Tuesday, 6th May, 1858. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., V.P., F.R.S., in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance, Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward...
Category: Committee
From the Director
Brian Miles, Director of the RNLI, looks back on 1990 - and forward into the new decade and beyond The deadline for the Winter journal brought home to me that another year has elapsed, a year which I believe has been one of continuing and...
Category: Articles
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 Suction Dredger Porteur
The motor Life-boat Charterhouse was called out during a whole N.N.W. gale and very heavy sea on the 21st October, to the assistance of the suction-dredger Porteur, of London, which had been at anchor in Fishguai'd Harbour, but was cast...
The Control Board
A closer view, with the engine-hatch open, showing the engine-room and the two 35-h.p. petrol engines. - View image in PDF
These two photographs are of the 41-feet Watson life-boat Mary Ann Hepwortli, stationed at Whitby in 1938.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover of H.R.H.
the Duchess of Kent, President of the Institution, is from a photograph by Mr. Cecil Beaton, of Kensington, and is reproduced by his very kind per- mission..
Category: Articles
The Willing Boys
FISHING VESSEL TOWED TO BEACH Aith, Shetlands. At 6.10 on the morning of the 1st April, 1962, the honorary secretary was informed by a man living in Sandness that a motor fishing vessel was in difficulties at the north end of Papa Stour as...
The Heaving Line
The heaving line. photograph by courtesy of Ambrose Greenway. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Life-Boat Station
THE following brief description and diagrams illustrative of a complete Life-boat Establishment, including the House for the protection of tho boat, will serve to convoy an idea of the general character of one of the 303 Life-boat Stations...
Category: Articles