LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Dover, Kent.—At 6.35 in the even- ing of the 3rd of May, 1952, the police reported that six boys were trapped by the tide between Fan Bay and St.
Margaret's, and at 8.50 the life-boat Thomas Markby, on temporary duty at...
The Drowned at Sea
NEVER bronze or slab of stone May their sepulchre note; O'er their burial-place alone, Shall the shifting sea-weed float.
Not for them the quiet grave .Underneath the daisied turf; They rest below the restless wave,...
Category: Poetry
Peel - Mersey Class Ruby Club
Mrs Karin Bache Norali, descendant of a survivor rescued from the wreck of Sf George in 1899. names Peel's Mersey class lifeboat Ruby Clery. Photo John C. Hall. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.
Founded in 1824.—Supported by Voluntary Subscriptions.
PATRONESS—HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE QUEEN.
Category: Advertisement
Letters of Thanks to Skippers
FOR a service which led to the rescue of six people from the motor fishing vessel Castle Dawn, Mr. Samuel McCullough, skipper of the motor fishing vessel Be Ready, and Mr. Ernest McKee, skipper of the motor fishing vessel Ambitious, have...
Category: Services
Solent Swan and Oriana
Angle, Pembrokeshire.—At 7.10 in the morning of the 9th of .January, 1952, the Tenby coastguard telephoned that a vessel was in distress fifteen miles south-south-west of Smalls, but that a steamer was standing by her.
Then...
Commander Edward Drury
COMMANDER EDWARD DUMERGUE DRURY, O.B.E., R.D., R.N.R., late chief inspector of life-boats, died on the 24th of January at the age of 72.
He was the elder son of Dr. Drury, Bishop of Ripon, was educated at Merchant...
Category: Obituaries
Two Royal Naming Ceremonies
H.R.H. THE DUCHESS OF KENT, Presi- dent of the Royal National Life-boat Institution recently named two new motor life-boats; one in March and one in May. The first, on March 29th, was at New Brighton, to whose station a 52-foot Barnett...
Category: Inaugurations
Lord Runciman and Sir Lionel Halsey
THE Institution lost last year two very distinguished members of the com- mittee of management, the Viscount Runciman and Admiral Sir Lionel Halsey, G.C.M.G., G.C.V.O., K.C.I.E., C.B.
Lord Runciman, who died on the 14th of...
Category: Obituaries