LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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% From the Blue Circle Group, Portland House, Stag Place, London, S.W.I, comes news of an interesting cement application in ship building.
Recently cement mortar covering was applied to the largest yacht in the United...
Category: Articles
"Withhold Not Thine Hand."
BOGGED and rough the rocks of Albion's coast Stretch forth into the billows reef on reef, And many gallant vessels, tempest tost, There yearly come to grief.
Still, week by week the weary winter through, Braving the...
Category: Poetry
Mary and Martha
While a strong gale was blowing from the S., accompanied by a very heavy sea, on the night of the 5th October, signals of distress were shown by the schooner Mary and Martha, bound from Queensferry for Dundalk, laden with bricks, which had...
A Group of 8- to 13-Year-Old Children Living In the Llandegai Area of North Wales Planned and Ran a Mini-Fete In Dr and Mrs Tideman S Garden Last September Raising £52 F
A group of 8- to 13-year-old children living in the Llandegai area of North Wales planned and ran a mini-fete in Dr and Mrs Tideman s garden last September, raising £52 for the lifeboat service. In the photograph are Heather, Susy and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Bridesmaid
Islay, Inner Hebrides.—At 2.16 in the morning of the 30th of December, 1948, the Kilchoman coastguard telephoned that a distress call had been sent out by the Fleetwood steam trawler Brides- maid, which was ashore at the north end of Islay...
The Russian Life-Boat Service
THE Russian Life-boat Society, of which the Empress is the Patron, has now 125 Life-boat Stations; of these 60 are on the river banks and 65 on the coast.
The Committee of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION had in...
Category: Articles
An Aeroplane (63)
AUGUST 16TH. - DUNGENESS, KENT.
Shortly after 7 P.M. information was received from the coastguard and them ilitary authorities that an aeroplane had crashed.
The coxswain, who had seen a British fighter...
Last Spring It Was Announced That the Variety Club of Great Britain Had Agreed to Meet the Costs of the Payments Made By the Rnli to Dependent Children of Lifeboat
Last spring it was announced that the Variety Club of Great Britain had agreed to meet the costs of the payments made by the RNLI to dependent children of lifeboatmen who had lost their lives on service or exercise, and also that the Club... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Life-Boatmen In the Victory March
Twenty-four life-boatmen, from Walton-on-tlae-Naze, Clacton, Margate, Ramsgate, Walmer and Hastings, marched with the Royal Navy and the Merchant Navy in the Victory March on June 8th. The life-boats of these six stations rescued 839 lives...
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What's On
YEAR OF THE SEA EXHIBITION
Ongoing
National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth
Discover the impact of the sea on Welsh landscape and culture at the Tra Môr yn Fur: Wales and the Sea exhibition until Saturday...
Category: Articles