LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Duke of Northumberland's Life-Boat Essay Competition, for Elementary Schools, 1938
" Imagine that You are the Coxswain of a Life-boat. A Vessel is sending up Rockets of Distress. Describe the Rescue by Your Life-boat." THE essay competition in 1937, in which the writers were asked to imagine that they had...
Category: Articles
Mrs Grace Agate
Mrs Grace Agate, president of Aldeburgh Ladies' guild from 1965 until her death. In 1966 she was elected chairman but had to retire from this post in 1987 due to ill health. Mrs Agate was awarded a silver badge in 1977 and a gold badge...
Category: Obituaries
Sir Alec Rose, Like the True Sailor He Is, Has Spoken With Reverence of the Power of the Sea: 'No One Knows the Sea, Which Is a Great Leveller That Soon Cuts the Big-Headed Sailor Down to Size. In Th
Sir Alec Rose, like the true sailor he is, has spoken with reverence of the power of the sea: 'No one knows the sea, which is a great leveller that soon cuts the big-headed sailor down to size. In the tremendous gales I have experienced... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 5th June, 1877: THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., Chairman of the Institution, in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Corre- spondence, and Wreck and...
Category: Committee
Battling in a boiling torrent
Experience and compassion combined when three volunteers faced the toughest test
The call came at 8.19am on Easter Sunday 2012. All that Damien Bolton, Nicola Bradbury and Matthew Main knew was...
Category: Articles
Books
The sailor's word-book By Admiral WH Smyth Published by Conway Maritime Press ISBN 0851779727 paperback Price £9.99 Although first published in 1867, this digest of nautical terms is far more than just a period piece and should...
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Feature Building Into the Millennium
Building into the millennium Shoreworks manager Howard Richings reaches the final leg of his epic voyage - travelling from Aith, in the Shetland Islands, to Eyemouth on the Scottish mainland.It is appropriate that we commence the final leg...
Category: Articles
Iris
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 12.31 in the afternoon of the 9th of December, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that the West Mersea police had reported a fishing boat drifting towards Colne, and at 12.48 the life-boat Edward...
Two Dinghies (2)
Seven lifeboat stations involved in 21 hour search for missing anglersA complex service on 14 April 1991 involved all seven lifeboat stations from Dover to Newhaven, lasted 21 hours and involved searching of an area of 3,400 square miles for...
Life-Boat Societies Abroad
THE LIFE-BOAT [DECEMBER, 1954 Life-boat Societies Abroad The Royal National Life-boat Institution agreed to a request made at the International Life-boat Conference that it should act as a distributing centre for information which may be of...
Category: Articles