LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Call for the Life-Boat
BOOM! Booml The sound of the signal gun Thrills the heart, as it startles the ear, And swift as their flying feet can run The men rush out as the sound they hear; And swift as their strong hands can undo, Shackle and fastenings are undone...
Category: Articles
Peep Into the Past
A fascinating glimpse of the Lifeboat archives 100 years ago The winter 1906 edition of the Journal revealed how John Owston, Coxswain of the Scarborough lifeboat, met King Edward VII after being asked by Lord Londesborough to assist a...
Category: Articles
The RNLI and me: Simon Gregson
He's spent 26 years living on the UK's best-known street- but, this father and lifeboat station volunteer is as much about water as he is soap
You've been on...
Category: Articles
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Cox- swain Patrick Power of Dunmore East.
He first joined the Dunmore East crew in 1925, became bowman in 1928 and second coxswain in 1934. He was appointed coxswain in January,...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Scillonian and the Launch Kittern
St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly.—On the 10th of September, 1951, the S.S.
Scillonian was bound from Penzancefor St. Mary's with eighty-three people.
The sea was smooth, but there was a very...
Bottom Right: Bill Callaghan Is a Yeoman at the Tower of London - and a Volunteer at the RNLI's Tower Pier Station
Bottom Right: Bill Callaghan Is A Yeoman At The Tower Of London - And A Volunteer At The RNLI's Tower Pier Station. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Smacks John & Grace, of Milford, & Mary of Cardigan
The smacks John and ftrace, of Mjlford, and Mary, of j Cardigan, having, from the violence of the gale, then blowing from N.E., parted their cables and driven on to the Grood- wick Sands, the Life-boat Sir Edward Perrott was launched and...
The Right Hon. The Earl of Plymouth, G.B.E., C.B., D.L., P.C.
The Right Hon. the Earl of Plymouth, G.B.E, C.B.,D.L,P.C By the death of the Earl of Plymouth on 6th March last, the Institution has lost a friend who was always ready to place his name and great influence at the service of the...
Category: Obituaries
New Ways of Raising Money
A LORRY decorated by the chairman and secretary of the Luton branch, Lieut-Commander Bernard McDonald, R.N.V.R., and Commander W. R. S.
Smith, R.N.V.R., with equipment supplied by the Institution's depot won the first...
Category: Donations
Highland Chief, of London & Tavestock, of Plymouth
Also, on the 12th February, the life-boat and steamer were again off in reply to sig- nals of distress from ships in the neighbour- hood of the Goodwin Sands. The wind had shifted from a southerly to a north-westerly direction, and in a few...