LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Five Fishing Cobles
Filey, Yorkshire.—At 10.20 on the morning of the 27th of March, 1952, the life-boat coxswain reported that the weather was deteriorating and that five fishing cobles were at sea.
At 10.37 the life-boat The Cuttle was...
The Wood for the Trees
The air is heavy with the unmistakable smell of sawn timber and Stockholm tar and jangles gently to the sound of a distant bandsaw as I watch a boatbuilder ease a plank into place around the gaunt frames of an 18ft launch under construction....
Category: Articles
A Motor Boat and a Dinghy
LOST THEIR DINGHY St. David's, Pembrokeshire. At 6.15 p.m. on i8th October, I963,thecoastguard told the acting honorary secretary that two fires and a flashing light had been seen on Ramsey Island. At 6.19 the lifeboat Joseph Soar (Civil...
The Life-Boat
TtrE day is spent ; the ied sun sinks Beneath the Western wave; The light bark gaily holds her course With her crew so stout and brave.
A few short hours, and all is changed; For loudly howls the Wast, And o'er the...
Category: Poetry
Ada (1)
On the 14th November, at about 5.30 P.M., an easterly gale suddenly sprang up, accompanied by a heavy sea. The schooner Ada, of Beaumaris, bound from Plymouth to Buncorn, with china clay, had taken refuge in the bay, as she was leaking badly...
No Sea Room—And Other Things
No Sea Room -and other things ROCKS, SHALLOWS or obstructing lines reduced the lifeboats' manoeuvring room in four of the services (described briefly below) for which medals for gallantry were presented at the Royal Festival Hall in May...
Category: Articles
February
FEBRUARY Launches 88. Lives rescued 248.
FEBRUARY 1ST. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL.
At 4.6 P.M. the naval authorities at Penzance sent a message through the coastguard asking for the life-boat to go out with a...
Category: Services
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, 3rd Sept., 1868. Sir EDWARD PER- ROTT, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Corre- spondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub-Com-...
Category: Committee
1924: (Right) on London's Rnli Centenary Flag Day the Duke and Duchess of York Touring Collection Depots Talk to Captain Lawson Smith In Diving Kit Outside the Mansion House
1924: (right) On London's RNLI centenary flag day, the Duke and Duchess of York, touring collection depots, talk to Captain Lawson Smith, in diving kit, outside the Mansion House.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Ada
BOAT FOUND AFTER ALL-NIGHT SEARCH Workington, Cumberland. At 9.10 on the evening of the 15th March, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the fishing boat Ada was overdue and asked for the life-boat to stand by. At 9.21...