LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Life-Boat Stations of the United Kingdom
IT is intended in this and each future number of the Life-boat Journal to give our readers a short account of two or more of the stations of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION.
These sketches—for they will be of that...
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
The Service In 1943.
In 1943 life-boats rescued 469 lives and helped to save 47 boats and vessels from destruction. Of their 411 launches, 249, or nearly two-thirds, were to ships and aeroplanes in distress on account of the war. Life-boatmen won 30 medals for...
Category: Articles
Notes of the Quarter
THE sad story of the acting Selsey coxswain, Douglas Arnell, who was obliged to relinquish his post because of colour blindness, was widely reported in the press earlier this year. It may therefore be helpful to explain the RNLI's...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 14th February, 1935.
SIR GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the chair.
Reported the death of the Rt. Hon. and Rev. the Earl of Devon, a vice-president of the Institution since...
Category: Committee
Of the Four Periods In the History of the Lifebout the First Covering the Days of the Pulling and Sailing Boats Is By Far the Longest Launch of the 35Ft Liverpool Lifeboat Samuel Lewis at Skegness In
Of the four periods in the history of the litcbodt. lilt' f i r s t , covering the days of the pulling ami sailing bouts, is by far the longest. Launch of the .Ifft Liverpool lifeboat Samuel Lewis tit Skegness in 1906.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Parliamentary Inquiry. The Management Vindicated and Justified
IN view of the constant serious and un- founded charges against the administration of the Institution which have for the last few years been made in certain quarters and diligently circulated, mainly through the medium of the Press, such...
Category: Articles
The Walmer Boathouse
Above the door is a clock in memory of Captain R. Coleman, honorary secretary 1932-41, presented by his widow and erected by his daughter. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs