LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Help of Coxswains and Crews
THE Institution is fortunate in often having the help of its Coxswains and Crews, not only in manning the Life- boats, but in raising funds, sometimes by their personal efforts and sometimes in the form of gifts out of salvage money which...
Category: Donations
Seven Houses Are Being Built at Spurn Head for the Humber Lifeboat Crews This Is a Desolate Spot of Land and If the Rnli Did Not Provide Housing There Would Be No Crew F
DONATE A HOUSE? Seven houses are being built at Spurn Head for the Humber lifeboat crews. This is a desolate spot of land and if the RNLI did not provide housing there would be no crew for the boat.
The total cost is... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Below: the Remains of Tynemouth Boathouse
Below: The remains of Tynemouth boathouse and the John Pyemont lifeboat, which were destroyed by a German bomb on 9 April 1941.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Life-Boat Transporting-Carriage
The Life-boat transporting-carriage is a very important auxiliary to the boat.
Nearly every Life-boat, except a few of the larger size, is provided with a carriage, on which she is kept in the boat-house ready for immediate...
Category: Articles
Appeal for the Life-Boat Institution
To help support this noble cause May we not plead in vain; God help the hearts that risk their lives For others on the main.
Far on the angry billows deep, Mid lightning's vivid gleam, "Where heav'n's...
Category: Poetry
The L.C.T. 2263
DECEMBER 3RD. - BRIDLINGTON, YORKSHIRE. At seven in the morning a vessel - the L.C.T. 2263 - was seen to be in difficulties close to the South beach behind the pier. She was driving ashore in broken water and was making signals by red lights...
As reported in the September Issue of the Life-Boat, T.V. Announcer Guy Thomas, on Behalf of T.W.W. Ltd., Presented a Television Set to the Crew of 70-001 When She Visited Bristol Earlier This Year
As reported in the September issue of THE LIFE-BOAT, T.V. announcer Guy Thomas, on behalf of T.W.W.
Ltd., presented a television set to the crew of 70-001 when she visited Bristol earlier this... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Emma and the Boy Billie
Southwold, Suffolk.—On the morning of the 20th August the coastguard reported that two motor fishing boats inDunwich Bight which were trying to make Southwold harbour were in danger. A moderate to strong S.S.W breeze was blowing and the sea...