LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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WHEN one travels from Norwich, roughly north west, one soon begins to sense that the sea is not far away. The trees on exposed ground have a stunted look caused by the prevailing wind: their limbs are bent in a certain...
Category: Articles
Praise from the Pensioners
Two letters of appreciation of the life-boat service, both enclosing donations, have recently been written to the Institution by old age pensioners.
Eighty-two year old Mrs. Emily Stabback, of Greenwich, London S.E.io,...
Category: Correspondence
Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
For tlie Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.
SUPPORTED SOLELY BY VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS.
Services of the Life-boats of the Institution in 1875.
A tice, cu tter, of Yarmon th—as-...
Category: Advertisement
The Restless Ocean and The Dutiful
A Disaster at Arbroath.
EAELY on 30th November last, two fishing yawls, the Restless Ocean and the Dutiful, put out from Arbroath, the weather being fine and the sea smooth.
About seven in the morning the...
"God Help the Poor Fellows at Sea!"
FAR away inland, when tempests blow Wild through the dark'ning night, We list to the roar of the winds as they go, On their hurricane steeds to the fight; For the hosts of the Storm King are gathering fast Where the white-crested waters...
Category: Poetry
Dinner to the Ramsgate Life-Boat Men
(From Pullen's Kent Argus, 1st Dec., 1888.) THE triennial dinner to Ramsgate Lifeboat men, the expenses of which are defrayed by the interest of 200Z. left by the late Admiral Sir George Back, F.B.S., took place on the 29th November, at...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Monkwood
At 4.20 A.M.
on the 20th January a telephone message was received from the Coastguard report- ing that a vessel was ashore at Thorpe- ness. The No. 2 Life-boat Edward Dresden was launched and found the s.s. Monkwood, of...
The Harbour Motor Boat Duchess of Normandy
St. Helier, Jersey.—About nine o'clock on the evening of the 28th of Septem- ber, 1954, it was reported that the harbour motor boat Duchess of Normandy, which had ten people on board, including a party of workmen, was over- due on a...
Although Not Part of the Little Ships Flotilla African Queen
Although not part of the Little Ships flotilla African Queen, the boat made famous by Humphrey Bogart in the film of the same name, attempted to make the passage to Dunkirk. She got into difficulties and had to be towed into Ramsgate by the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
"The Book of the Life-Boat."
THIS interesting work, which is beauti- fully illustrated, is, as its title indicates, well calculated to fulfil the object for which it was written. Any seeking information relative to the LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, its operations and its work,...
Category: Articles