LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Swimming under the sky
Why are more and more swimmers shunning heated, chlorinated indoor swimming pools in favour of rivers, lakes and the sea?
Outdoor swimming has enjoyed a resurgence recently, whether people are bathing in backwaters, bays,...
Category: Articles
Feature: Volunteer Lifeguards
RNLI Beach Lifeguards currently operates only in the South West of England, but the RNLI is working hard to ensure the development of lifeguarding all around the coastThe RNLI is committed to maintaining its volunteer ethos. This does not...
Category: Articles
Some Ways of Raising Money
The second annual raft race organised by York branch on the River Ouse was held on a sunny Saturday in July and about 40 entries mustered at the starting point, the Viking Hotel. The Lord Mayor of York and Mayoress judged all entries for the...
Category: Donations
St.Ives Lions Club Has Chosen As Its Special Project for 1977 the Funding of a Replacement Ilb for the Lifeboat Station; Club Members With Lifeboatmen and Branch Offici
St Ives Lions Club has chosen as its special project for 1977 the funding of a replacement ILB for the lifeboat station; club members with lifeboatmen and branch officials are already making slipway collections, teddy bears are being raffled... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea
THE commerce of the world has increased, and is increasing so rapidly, and especially that of this great commercial nation, that the danger of collision between the innumerable ships that are passing and repassing each other, and crossing...
Category: Articles
Penthesilea
BRAUNTON AND APPLEDORE, DEVON.— On the llth of January, the ship Penthesilea, of Liverpool, manned by a crew of 30 hands all told, left Newport, Monmouthshire, laden with coal, for the Mauritius. She was towed down the Bristol Channel and...
The Duke of Northumberland's Competition Prize Essay
THE second year of the Essay Com- petition, full details of which were given in The Life-Boat for November, 1918, has produced a very interesting crop of essays, both the number and the quality varying greatly and, in some ways, surprisingly...
Category: Articles
The Caister Life-Boat Disaster
THE terrible disaster which overtook one of the Life-boats belonging to the Institution, stationed at Caister on the coast of Norfolk, in November last will be fresh in the minds of our readers.
The expressions of sympathy...
Category: Articles
An Aircraft,and Medea
At noon on 26th August, 1966, the Air Commandant, Guernsey Airport, told the honorary secretary that an aircraft had crashed off Alderney and asked if the life-boat could be sent to investigate.
Three aqua-lung divers, who...
Wrecked!
SHE put to sea on Christmas Eve, And through their tears they saw her leave, And in that happy time of peace The strife of waters well might cease; Bat far away across the foam The sailor found another home.
No more, no...
Category: Poetry