LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
On a Visit to Hastings Earlier This Year Hm Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Patron of the Rnli for 43 Years Stops for a Word With Coxswain John 'Joe' Martin and Members of the Lifeboat Cre
On a visit to Hastings earlier this year HM Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, Patron of the RNLI for 43 years, stops for a word with Coxswain John 'Joe' Martin and members of the lifeboat crew.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Ubari
Southend - on - Sea, Essex. — On the afternoon of the 21st January a report was received from the watchman at the pierhead that a small steamer was ashore on the Nore Sands. A very squally wind was blowing, with a rough sea. The motor...
Benton, of South Shields
About midnight on the 24th January the Thomas Wilson life-boat put off in reply to signals of distress, and brought safely ashore the crew of 6 men belonging to the brig Benton, of South Shields, which was totally wrecked, during foggy...
56 Days on the Atlantic
THE 61-feet former Padstow life-boat Princess Mary, now the converted life-boat Aries, crossed the Atlantic in both directions in 1954. She was commanded by her owner, Mr. Cecil Harcourt-Smith, and had a crew of four.
The...
Category: Articles
The Annual Meetings
The RNLI's annual meetings - the AGM and Presentation of Awards - were held on 16 May at the Barbican, in the City of London, for the second year running. The 'new' venue provides enough space for the Institution to set up...
Category: Meetings
The S.S. Dolphin
HOYLAKE, CHESHIRE.—The Coastguard on duty haying observed a vessel aground on the East Hoyle bank, while a S.W.
gale was blowing with a rough sea on the 29th May, informed the Coxswain of the Life-boat Coard William Sguarey...
The S.S. St. Patrick
Fishguard, Pembrokeshire. — During the morning of the 28th February the Great Western Railway local marine superintendent asked if the motor lifeboat White Star would place a crew on board the railway's s.s. St. Patrick, which was lying...
The S.S. Granfoss
Lerwick, Shetlands.—At 1.6 early on the morning of the 26th of November, 1954, the coastguard reported that the S.S. Granfoss, of Oslo, needed help thirty-five miles south-by-east of Sun- burgh Head, about fifty-three miles from Lerwick. At...
The Walmer Luggers
A TABLET has been placed on the side of the life-boathouse at Walmer, Kent, commemorating the Walmer luggers which were, in the words of the Institution's honorary secretary at Walmer, " the cradle of the life-boat- men " of...
Category: Articles
Launching the Life-Boat
Ho ! build the Life-boat, heart and hand ; Quick ! ake the many- voiced command ! The black-winged tempest downward dips, Like death, on night-bewildered ships.
Let wrinkled age and valiant youth Close rib it as with ribs...
Category: Poetry