LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Waiting for the Lifeboat
As cruising yachtsmen most of us will go through life without needing a lifeboat.
Growing experience, natural caution and a healthy respect for the sea backed up with good safety equipment should see us through. But the...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat House
The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...
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Lifesaving on the edge
When lifeguards found a seriously injured man in the water, it would take three RNLI teams to bring him to safety over an island’s rocky ledges
Hoylake volunteer Marcus Swaine was already...
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The Danish Schooner Sif
Pwllheli, Caernarvonshire.—2nd Julv, 1939. The Danish schooner Sif, of Marstal, appeared to be in difficulties, but she was only waiting for a pilot.— Rewards, £5 15s. Qd..
Ken Tickles the Crowds
Lifeboat coffers were boosted by almost £23,000 during Hoylake lifeboat station's open days which were held over the August Bank Holiday.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
On the Goodwin Sands
The Walmer life-boat and wrecks of American ships. - View image in PDF
(See page 333). - View image in PDF
From a photograph by Mr. Amos Burg, of Portland, Oregan, U.S.A.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Books for the Young
Two selections of stories for the young which have recently been published contain accounts of the exploits of the great Cromer coxswain, Henry Blogg.
All in the Day's Work (Hamish Hamil- ton 6/6) opens with an extract...
Category: Articles
"The Old Cork Buoy."
THE night was dark, the tempest roared, The waves ran mountains high: It seemed to every hand on board As if the sea and sky In one commingled mass was blent And welded by the gale, Save where the quiv'ring light'niag rent The...
Category: Poetry
Dover Lifeboat the 50Ft
Dover lifeboat, the 50ft Thames class Rotary Service, leaving harbour on Wednesday September 10, 1980, in a south-westerly gale to go to the help of an approaching West German yacht, Aquis Guana. The yacht, with a crew of nine, was on... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Crew Approach Cautiously,
The crew approach cautiously, aware that on-board distress flares could explode at any moment. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs