LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Well Dressing Is An Old Custom In Derbyshire and Here Is a Magnificent Example of the Art Created at Holymoorside Last August Usually Well Dressings Have a Religious Theme But Last Year Chest
Well dressing is an old custom in Derbyshire and here is a magnificent example of the art, created at Holymoorside last August.
Usually well dressings have a religious theme but last year Chesterfield and District branch... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
New Ways of Raising Money
'Just Men' was the title of a long poem written by Mr. Anthony S. Burry, of Wickmead Close, Southend, in honour of the Moelfre life-boat and sold in booklet form by the Moelfre branch on their flag day on 28th August, 1967. The poem,...
Category: Donations
Night Distress Signals
' For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle ?" UNTIL the year 1873, vast as were the interests at stake, there was no recognised system of night signals to be shown by vessels in distress...
Category: Articles
A Book on the Cornish Life-Boats
THE seaboard of Cornwall can present two faces—the milder one—that usually seen by the summer visitor—is a pleasant one of sun-baked sands, regular lines of surf delightful for bathing, quaint houses and harbours, and granite rocks arranged...
Category: Articles
A Place In the Boat
A UPE-BOAT MAN'S SONG.
A mild wind, or a wild wind, a sky of blue or black, The boat must go and we must row to the rocky bar and back— To the rooky bar and back, boys, where the breakers boom and roar; But...
Category: Songs
Front Cover
Front Cover A Pooie lifeboat crew member prepares to be winched from the station's Brede class lifeboat to Portland Coastguard Helicopter Whisky Bravo during an exercise off Studland last Autumn.
The photograph is just... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Barry Dock Glamorganshire 44-Foot Steel Life-Boat Arthur and Blanche Harris Alongside the Grounded MV Amalia at Nash Point on 21st May 1969 the Vessel Had Gr
The Barry Dock, Glamorganshire, 44-foot steel life-boat Arthur and Blanche Harris alongside the grounded m.v. Amalia at Nash Point on 21st May, 1969. - View image in PDF
The vessel had grounded in fog.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Spirit
PAGe tItLe sPIRIt It’s a kind of magic Over 115 years after the first rattle of an RnLi collecting tin in manchester, Rory stamp discovers how young musicians are ensuring that the charity still strikes a chord in the city ‘there’s a great...
Category: Articles
Roaring water
Two fishermen faced the reality of the most dangerous profession as they drifted off Co Cork
Just before 9am on Wednesday 22 June, as many of the lifeboat and shore volunteers of Baltimore were...
Category: Articles
March
MARCH Launches 90. Lives rescued 132.
MARCH 2ND. - PLYMOUTH, DEVON. At 4.30 A.M. information was received from the King’s Harbour Master that signals of distress were being shewn in Jennycliffe Bay, and the motor life-boat...
Category: Services