LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Wreck at Sea
" Thy flitting form comes ghostly dull and pale, As driven by the beating storm at sea; Thy cry is weak and scared, As if thy mates had shared The doom of us. Thy wail— What does it bring to me ?" IT was perhaps an impious wish,...
Category: Articles
Crossing the Bar In a Hurricane
AT 2.20 on the afternoon of the 13th of November, 1959, the coastguard at Hartland Point informed the honorary secretary of the Appledore life-boat station, Captain P. Brennan, that the Polish vessel Gliwice was in distress ten miles west-by...
Category: Services
The Launch of the Life-Boat
THERE'LL be work for the Life-boat—God help it to-night, Where the foam of tiebreakers leaps np to the light.
God help it! It's ready to ride through the mist, And the men who shall man it the women have kissed.<...
Category: Poetry
The Services of Old Age. Workers of 85 and 95 Years
Workers of 85 and 95 years.
IT is no very uncommon thing to find Life-boatmen able to continue on active service until they have passed the three score years and ten ; but it is not only in the Life-boats that old age...
Category: Articles
A Capital Idea
GORDON STABLES, Esq., M.D., E.N., of Twyford, Berkshire, the well-known author, in a letter published a short time since in The Stock-keeper and Fancier's Chronicle, made the following admirable suggestion, which we trust may be carried...
Category: Correspondence
Resolutions Passed at the Annual Meeting for 1860
1.—Moved by THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., Chairman of Lloyd's Register of British and Foreign Shipping Society, Seconded by ALEXANDER BOETEFEUR, Esq. ; ; 1.—That the Report now read be adopted and circulated.
2.—Moved...
Category: Meetings
Letters
Support our volunteer crews It was an excellent idea to enclose the two eye catching Support our volunteer crews window stickers with the Spring 2003 issue of the Lifeboat.
Until a few years ago we used to have Support the...
Category: Correspondence
Double Toil and Trouble
Even experienced sailors can misjudge their situation. Carol Waterkeyn reports on a testing service to two yachts caught out close to harbour
Mr and Mrs Burris checked the forecast on 25 June 2007 as they prepared to sail...
Category: Articles
An Experimental Motor Life-Boat
THE Committee of Management of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION have now for many years had the problem before their mind of the suc- cessful employment of a motor in a Life-boat, so as to assist by mechanical means, and thus relieve...
Category: Articles
Second Life-Boat Medal Awarded Forty-Five Years Later
AT the age of 62 Coxswain Henry Nicholas, of Sennen Cove life-boat, has been awarded the bronze second service clasp for gallantry. Nearly 45 years earlier he won his first bronze medal at the age of 17 when the Sen- nen Cove life-boat...
Category: Services