LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Boatmen of Britannia
RUN quick, ring out the Life-boat, and quick ring out the crew, No tempest that could daunt them o'er England ever blew.
Where wood upon the water can ever float and save.
The boatmen of Britannia...
Category: Poetry
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
At the Sharp End
A selection of lifeboat services from around the country Wells East Division Three saved .from stranded vessel Aservice to a fishing vessel in gale force winds, darkness, shallow water and heavy breaking seas has earned Wells lifeboat...
Category: Services
Around the Coast
FROM AN ARTICLE on Horton and Port Eynon ILB station by Mr C. R. Chatterton published in the Newsletter of Reardon Smith Line. Mr Chatterton is chairman of both the shipping line and the ILB station branch: 'Operating an inshore lifeboat...
Category: Articles
The Holyhead Anglesey Life-Boat St. Cybi (Civil Service No 9) Took Part In a Double Rescue on 6th April 1969 When She Brought Into Holyhead a Yacht and a Sailing Dinghy
The Holyhead, Anglesey, life-boat St. Cybi (Civil Service No. 9) took part in a double rescue on 6th April, 1969, when she brought into Holyhead a yacht and a sailing dinghy.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Heritage Group,
FACING DANGER TOGETHER k The St. Ives lifeboat 'RNLB The Princess Royal' with a Royal Navy rescue helicopter of 771 Squadron by Christopher Southcombe The original painting was commissioned by Mr Leslie Leek of Tregenna Castle...
Category: Advertisement
Notes of the Quarter
THE PRESENTATION of no fewer than 23 medals for gallantry, an exceptionally high number for any one year, provided the central feature of this year's annual general meeting and served as a reminder to the large number of supporters...
Category: Articles
The Tilbury Ferry Edith
NO FOOD ON BOARD At 6.47 p.m. on loth November, 1964, the honorary secretary was told that the Tilbury ferry Edith, on passage from Harwich to Tilbury, was anchored near South Shoebury buoy because of thick fog without food, water or...
The Arklow, of Windsor
ABERYSTWYTH.—On the 7th October, during the severe storm which worked wide devastation over a great portion of the United Kingdom, a vessel was seen to be labouring heavily and showing signals of distress, some two or three miles from the...