LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Centenary of the Padstow Station
THE Life-boat Station at Padstow has celebrated its Centenary this year.
The first mention of it in the records of the Institution appears under the date, 24th January, 1827, when it was decided to make a grant of £10...
Category: Articles
The Whitethorn Morris Dancers Donated £25 to the Rnli
The Whitethorn morris dancers donated £25 to the RNLI after performing in the Harrow area last Boxing Day, a traditional busking day. They specialise in traditional north west clog morris dances.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Crew of Porthcawl's D Class Lifeboat During the Service
The crew of Porthcawl's D class lifeboat during the service - Helmsman Stuart Roberts in the foreground (Silver Medal), flanked by crew members Carl and Wayne Evans (Thanks on Vellum). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Royal Life-Boat Matinee
THE third annual Royal Life-boat Matinee organised by the Central London Women's Committee of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild was held at the Savoy Theatre (lent by Mr. Rupert D'Oyly Carte) on 5th December, in the presence of H.R.H....
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 10th February, 1938.
Sir GODFREY BAKING, Bt., in the chair.
Reported the receipt of the following special contributions :— £ s. d.
Anonymous .... 500 0 0...
Category: Committee
Pushing the Boat Out: Members of the Running Team Based at the Green Man Stamford
Pushing the boat out: Members of the running team based at the Green Man, Stamford pushed a 14ft dinghy, dressed as a lifeboat, around the Stamford Festival half marathon and raised £1,000 for the Stamford and District branch. Later in... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Destroyer H.M.S. Walrus (1)
Teesmouth, and Scarborough, Yorkshire.
—At 4.20 P.M. on the 12th February, 1938, a request was received from the coastguard at Whitby for the motor life-boa.t J. W. Archer, as the destroyer H.M.S. Walrus had broken from her...
The Wreck Register and Chart for the Year Ended the 30th June, 1893
WE heartily congratulate the BOARD OF TRADE on the very satisfactory information it has been able to place before the public, in its recently-issued Annual Blue Book, relative to the shipping casualties on the coast of the United Kingdom...
Category: Articles
Heroes of the Oar. (From "Watchers By the Shore," With the Author's Permission.)
HIGH flies the spray, and landward leap The hungry savage seas, Whose white manes curl in seething hate Before the lashing breeze, That shrieks its thousand league-long self Across the spume-flecked waste, To line the coast with wrecks and...
Category: Poetry
The Motor Fishing Coble Maggie
— Several motor fishing boats and cobles put out early on the 2nd November, but were caught in a strong N.N.W. gale, with a very heavy sea. All except the motor fishing coble Our Maggie returned to harbour, and the motor life-boat Herbert...