LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Life-Boat
LOUD beat the treacherous breakers on the shore; The boiling waves like mountains rise on high, Seeming to vent their wild, tumultuous roar To the dark pall that erstwhile was the sky.
The billows,...
Category: Poetry
The Newarp Lightvessel
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 9.38 on the night of the 16th of March, 1953, the Gorleston coastguard passed on a report from the Trinity House Superintendent that a member of the crew of the Newarp lightvessel had been injured...
The Motor Coble Resolution
Whitby, Yorkshire.—On the 27th of January, 1950, it was reported that the local motor coble Resolution, with a crew of three, was overdue. The life- boat Mary Ann Hepworth was launched at 2.40 in the afternoon in a calm sea with a light...
Resolutions Passed at the Annual General Meeting for 1898
His GRACE THE DUKE or LEEDS IN THE CHAIR.
Moved by His Grace The DUKE OF LEEDS.
Seconded by Colonel SAUNDER- SON, M.P.
1. That the Annual Report be adopted, printed and circulated, and...
Category: Meetings
The Life-Boat Service In 1948. A Comparison With Ten and Twenty Years Ago
IN 1948 the life-boats of the Institution were called out 603 times to vessels in distress.
Ten years ago the number was 485.
That was then a record year for time of peace. In each of the three years since...
Category: Articles
Personal Assistant to the Secretary
LIEUT.-COL. CHARLES EARLE, D.S.O., O.B.E., has been appointed Personal Assistant to the Secretary of the Institution, Colonel A. D. Burnett Brown.
Lieut.-Colonel Earle was born in 1913 and educated at Wellington and the...
Category: Articles
The Earl of Shaftesbury, K.G., and the Lifeboat Cause
At the Annual Meeting of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, on the 17th March last, the EARL off SHAFTESBURY was present, and delivered the following interesting speech. He said:— " The Committee of this society has conferred ! upon me...
Category: Articles
The Goodwin Sands
THE Goodwin Sands have earned over and over again their grim description as '; the graveyard of ships." In them are sunk the timbers of hundreds of ships and the bones of thousands of seamen.
At low tide men have...
Category: Articles
R. H. Tucker of Winconsin U.S
On the 7th September, the ship R. H.
Tucker, of Winconsin, U.S., struck on the Blackwater Bank, on the Irish coast, and the following day was totally destroyed by fire. The Cahore life-boat put off early in the morning,...
Destruction of the Passenger Steam-Ship, "Austria," By Fire
THE steam-ship, Austria, of 2,500 tons, one of the Hamburg line of screw steam-packets, running between that place and New York, sailed from Southampton on the 4th Sept.
last for New York. Her passengers numbered 425, and...
Category: Articles