LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ceremonies
There was an expectant buzz around the Scarborough boathouse as the crowd awaited the arrival of HRH The Duchess of Kent in the warm, late summer sunshine on 9 September 1992. In a lively and enthusiastic speech by branch president Gilbert...
Category: Inaugurations
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D class lifeboats help nearly 600 people to safety from floodingThe sterling efforts of the crews of three North Wales lifeboats during the severe flooding which hit the area in late February 1990 have earned the stations special...
The Life-Boat Service and the War
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 144 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 16 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to 31st October, 1939 ... - 66,604 The Life-boat Service and the...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Services of the World: Iceland
WE are very glad to record the founding of another Life-boat Service. It is in Iceland, is a voluntary Service like'our own, and makes the number of National Life-boat Services seventeen, of which number four are maintained by the State,...
Category: Articles
A Life-Boat Song
'Tis a stormy night, and the wild winds roar, The waves roll mountains high, And the Life-boat crew are called to the shore, For a ship to the rocks in nigh.
Not a moment waver our heroes bold, As their boat they...
Category: Poetry
Chr. Christensen
Signals of distress called out the Life- boat Forster Fawsett at 4.40 A.M. on the 16th February. She found the steamer Chr. Ghristensen, of Copenhagen, ashore on the south end of the Longstone Island, where she had stranded whilst bound to...
"Launch!" An Appreciation of General Seely's Book
I AM sure that readers who are not attracted by a tale of perils at sea in open boats will find much to surprise and hearten them in General Seely's " Launch ! " It is an animating book, for it has implications which involve...
Category: Articles
The Merchant Shipping Act, 1876
THERE can be few Englishmen who are not aware that during several years past a very uneasy feeling has pervaded the British mind as regards the general status of our "Mercantile Marine," alike as regards the vessels of which it is...
Category: Articles
Anastassios Pateras (1)
Clogher Head, Co. Louth; Cloughey, and Newcastle, Co. Down.—At 11.15 A.M., on the 17th November, 1937, the Clogher Head motor life-boat Mary Ann Blunt was launched in an easterly gale, with a very heavy sea and rain, to search for a vessel...
Provider, Success and Pilot Me
Whitby, Yorkshire.—The" local motor fishing boats Provider, Success and Pilot Me put out at 4 A.M. on the 24th February, in a nasty sea. At $ A.M. a thick fog settled, and, as the sea was making, the motor life-boat Margaret Harker...