LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
My Pilot. (A Sailor's Hymn.)
THEBE'S a port beyond the sky-line, Though its lights I cannot see, But my Pilot's in the offing, And He's watching there for me.
Though my bark be old and batter'd, And is wanting many a spar, Yet He'll...
Category: Songs
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Wednesday, 11th May, 1921.
The Rt. Hon. the EARL WALDEGRAVE, P.O., in the Chair.
Reported the receipt of the following special contributions :— ANCIENT ORDER OF FORESTERS £. s. d.
Category: Committee
When Col J. T. Benn the District Organising Secretary for the Midlands Attended the Annual Meeting of the Caister-On-Sea Branch In Norfolk He Presented a Silver Badge
When Col. J. T. Benn, the District Organising Secretary for the Midlands, attended the annual meeting of the Caister-on-Sea branch in Norfolk, he presented a silver badge to Miss Alice Brown, a vice president of the Caister ladies'... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
SCARBOROUGH.—On the morning of the 2nd December, 1886, during a heavy gale from the N., the dandy Gustave, of and from St. Yalery-en-Canx for North Shields with flint stone, brought up in the roads about a mile S.E. from the piers, showed...
Category: Services
A £20,000 thank you - 65 years later
Richard Tookey was just 14 when Shoreham lifeboat crew rescued him and his family from their stricken yacht in 1948. Now the station has enough funds to fuel their lifeboat for 5 years after he donated £20,000 as a thank...
Category: Articles
In London for the Annual Meeting
Left to right, Coxswain Strachan, Motor Mechanic Wiseman, Mrs. Brignall, Coxswain Stanton, Coxswain Roach, Mrs. Oilier, Coxswain Oilier.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Inga
On the 7th December, during a fearful gale of wind from W.S.W., the Edward Wasey life-boat went off, and brought safely ashore the crew of 12 men and a pilot from the Norwegian barque Inga, which was at anchor, in a dis- masted state, near...
The S.S. Briardene and the S. S. Roine
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 2.8 early on the morning of the 20th of March, 1953, the Gorles- ton coastguard rang up to say that the S.S. Briardene, of Sunderland, had collided with the S. S. Roine, of Helsi...
There Are Many Facets to the Running of a Nation-Wide Lifeboat Service and Transport Is a Vital If Usually Inconspicuous Aspect
There are many facets to the running of a nation-wide lifeboat service, and transport is a vital, if usually inconspicuous, aspect.
The latest addition to the RNLI's road fleet is this 17 ton Mercedes 1726, a 260hp, V8... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Inaugural Ceremonies, England
H.R.H. The Prince George, K.G., at Newhaven. H.R.H. The Princess Mary, Countess of Harewood, at Scarborough and Bridling ton.
EIGHTEEN Inaugural Ceremonies of new Motor Life-boats have been held during the five months...
Category: Inaugurations