LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Opening of the New Headquarters: the President Hrh the Duke of Kent With (I to R) the Director Captain Nigel Dixon and the Chairman Major-General Ralph Farrant
Opening of the new headquarters: The President, HRH The Duke of Kent, with (I. to r.) the Director, Captain Nigel Dixon, and the Chairman, Major-General Ralph Farrant.
photograph by courtesy of Bournemouth News and Picture... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
"God Help the Poor Fellows at Sea!"
FAR away inland, when tempests blow Wild through the dark'ning night, We list to the roar of the winds as they go, On their hurricane steeds to the fight; For the hosts of the Storm King are gathering fast Where the white-crested waters...
Category: Poetry
Shore-Boat Services Rewarded By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution In 1888
Jan. 5.—Voted 21. 1 Os. to 15 ve men for rescuing, by means of lines from the shore, the crew of four men from the schooner Anne Knox, of Glasgow, which had dragged her anchors and stranded on the bench, at Douglas, Isle of Man, during; a...
Category: Articles
Services of the Ramsgate Life-Boat
THE following is the Coxswain's report of the important services rendered on the night of 3rd Dec. last, by the Ramsgate life-boat, to the passengers of the emigrant ship Fusilier, of London; and to the crew of the ship Denierara, of...
Category: Services
The Steamers Coniston Fell and Ribble
SWANSEA.—The Wolverkampton Lifeboat was launched at 9.35 P.M. on the 26th January to the assistance of two steamers, the Coniston Fell, of Liverpool, and the Ribble, of Whitehaven, which had been in collision about half a mile N.E. of...
The Austrian Brig Zorniza, of Lucine
About -9.30 P.M., on the 7th December, the St, Nicholas lightship was observed throwing .up rockets, and a light was seen as if from a vessel in distress on the Scroby Sands. The Yarmouth large life-boat was immediately launched, and...
Bishop's Comment on the Life-Boat Service
THE Bishop of St. David's, the Right Reverend John Richards, gave an address from the bandstand at Aberyst- wyth on the 9th May, 1962, in which he said: "No organisation in the whole of our history has revealed more truly the spirit...
Category: Articles
The Boy Was Landed on the Other Side of the Cove Where There Was a Path (Right)
The boy was landed on the other side of the cove, where there was a path (right), and handed over to waiting police and ambulance men; the lifeboat then returned to the rock base to take off two fire- men who had been helping the youth and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Inset: the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight
Inset: The Battle of Britain Memorial Flight salutes the fleet with the evocative sight and sound of Lancaster, Spitfire and Hurricane.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The American Motor Vessel Markay
NOVEMBER 16TH. - STORNOWAY, ISLAND OF LEWIS. The American motor vessel Markay, a tanker, of Wilmington, had run aground, but a tug was found to be standing by. - Rewards, £9 8s..