LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Wreck Chart of the British Isles for 1879-80
FOTL 1879-80 A® SHOWING ALSO THE PRESENT LIFE BOAT STATIONS.
Category: Charts
An Evening By the Sea
IT is a beauteous evening, calm and free; The holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration; the broad sun Is smiling down in its tranquillity; The gentleness of heaven is on the sea; Listen!—the Mighty Being is awake, And doth with...
Category: Poetry
Heroes of the Oar. (From "Watchers By the Shore," With the Author's Permission.)
HIGH flies the spray, and landward leap The hungry savage seas, Whose white manes curl in seething hate Before the lashing breeze, That shrieks its thousand league-long self Across the spume-flecked waste, To line the coast with wrecks and...
Category: Poetry
Notes of the Quarter By Patrick Howarth
THE 13TH INTERNATIONAL LIFEBOAT CONFERENCE, on which a report appears on page 148, was as always an extremely harmonious and friendly affair. Indeed it would be difficult to find a gathering of pleasanter people anywhere in the world. To...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats During the Storms of November and December, 1867
The following is a list of the services of the boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION during the recent heavy gales:— - ' NO. of Lives saved.
Nov. 16-17,1867.—The Manky Wood life-boat at Poole rescued the crew of...
Category: Services
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
THURSDAY, 14th January, 1909.
The Right Hon. the EARL OF HARDWICKE in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.
Also read those of the Building, Finance and...
Category: Committee
List of the Principal Rewards Voted By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution from the 1st January to the 31st December, 1859
Dec. 12, 1858. — The French lugger Louise Amelie, of Nantes, was wrecked, during a gale of wind, in Dundrum Bay. The Institution's lifeboat, stationed at Newcastle, put off and rescued the crew of 5 men.—Expense of service,...
Category: Articles
Notes of the Quarter By the Editor
LIFEBOATS, IT IS OFTEN SAID, put OUt when other vessels are seeking the shelter of harbour. An example of how a lifeboat was able to carry out a mission while other well-found vessels were unable even to leave harbour occurred on the night...
Category: Articles
Accounts of Services by Life-boats (6)
JULY
Launches 47. Lives rescued 31.
JULY 5TH - YARMOUTH, ISLE OF WIGHT. At 7.20 P .M. the coastguard reported two men were in danger on a-piledriver at Milford-on-Sea. A moderate squally S.S.W. gale was...
Category: Services
Tap
Weymouth, Dorset - At 7.20 p.m. on 25th October, 1969, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a red flare had been sighted about one mile seawards of Church Ope Cove.
The life-boat Frank Spiller Locke slipped her...