LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Launching the Life-Boat
Ho ! build the Life-boat, heart and hand ; Quick ! ake the many- voiced command ! The black-winged tempest downward dips, Like death, on night-bewildered ships.
Let wrinkled age and valiant youth Close rib it as with ribs...
Category: Poetry
Inset- the Red Arrows
Inset- The Red Arrows take time out of their busy schedule to put on a stunning display.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
We Ask the Questions
The media team Television, radio and newspapers allow the RNLI to speak to the public and this can enhance public perception, attract new supporters and reinforce current support. The RNLI employs a small team who regularly communicate with...
Category: Articles
The St.Davids Lifeboat Crew
The St Davids Lifeboat crew (l-r): Robin Copley, David John, Michael Phillips, Roland Bateman, Malcolm Gray, jestyn Martin and Nicholas Phillips. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Covering the Atlantic Coast
The West coast of Ireland saw a dramatic increase in its number of lifeboats over the last decade-and-a-half - representing the largest number of new stations to be established in such a short space of time this century. Nicholas Leach,...
Category: Articles
Services of Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
TORQUAY, DEVONSHIRE.—On the 2nd May a large four-masted barque was observed at anchor in Torbay flying a signal for assistance. The Coastguard reported the matter to the Harbour Master, and within a quarter of an hour of the crew being...
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
Lily of the West
PORT ERIN, ISLE OF MAN.—The Lifeboat Annie and Mary of Manchester was launched at 9 A.M. on the 31st January to the assistance of the trawler Lily of the West, of Douglas, which had been disabled by loss of sails. A strong wind was blowing...
Returning With the Rescued
The Droughty Ferry motor life-boat coming in from the service to the Abertay Lightship, 30th January, 1937. (See opposite fage.). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Arklow Lightvessel
Arklow, Co. Wicklow.—At 6.25 on the evening of the 25th of January, 1955, the Commissioners of Irish Lights tele- phoned that a relative of a member of the crew of the Arklow lightvessel was seriously ill, and asked if the life-boat would...