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
48 Hours of Gale
66 Launches, 7 lives rescued, 21 vessels savedSEPTEMBER WAS USHERED IN by a Week of very high winds rising to gale and storm force—a week when there were many calls on the lifeboat service all round our coasts. Reports of boats in trouble...
Category: Services
The S.S. Akka
Troon, Ayrshire.—At 9.46 on the night of the 9th of April, 1956, the Port- patrick coastguard reported that the S.S. Akka, of Gothenburg, had wire- lessed that she had gone aground on the Gantock Rocks, Dunoon, and that she was sinking. At...
The S.S. Dagenham and the S.S. Sherbrooke
NOVEMBER 16-20TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At about 2.45 P.M. the coxswain received a message from the Warden Point coastguard that a ship was sinking close to the Mouse Light-vessel. A strong easterly gale was blowing, with a rough sea...
The S.S. Alchymist
Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 8.36 on the morning of the 26th of March, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the s.s. Alchymist of Lon- don, which had a sick man aboard, would be off Bembridge in about one hour and had...
Surf Is a Way of Life on the North Cornwall Coast - Blue Peter Iv Is Seen (Below)
Surf is a way of life on the North Cornwall coast - Blue Peter IV is seen (below) launching on exercise through seas very much smaller than those encountered in the Vellumwinning service From the survivor's point of view… The RNLI's... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Life-Boat Saturday Fund
THE unusually fine weather of the last three months has been most favourable to Life-boat Saturday demonstrations throughout the country, and hardly a Saturday has passed without one or more of such functions being held. The popu- larity of...
Category: Articles
The Grp Arun's Hull Plug Is Double Diagonal Construction Coated With 18 Coats of Furane Resin, Rubbed Down Hard Between Each Coat. the Ultimate Finish of a Glass Rei
The GRP Arun's hull plug is double diagonal construction coated with 18 coats of Furane resin, rubbed down hard between each coat.
The ultimate finish of a glass reinforced plastic hull is dependent on the fine quality... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Blyth Motor Life-Boat: The Inaugural Ceremony
THE Blyth station is one of the oldest on the coast — it was established in 1826, two years after the Institution itself was founded — and the inaugural ceremony of the Joseph Adlam, the Motor Life-boat which arrived at the station on 4th...
Category: Inaugurations
The S.S. Speedwell
GOELBSTON.—The No. 1 Life-boat, the Mark Lane, was launched at 1.45 P.M. on the 17th of January, during a strong S.E.
by E. wind and a heavy sea, to the assistance of the s.s. Speedwell, of Yarmouth, which had grounded on...