LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Launch of the Life-Boat
THERE'LL be work for the Life-boat—God help it to-night, Where the foam of tiebreakers leaps np to the light.
God help it! It's ready to ride through the mist, And the men who shall man it the women have kissed.<...
Category: Poetry
Unseaworthy Ships
UNSEAWORTHY SHIPS.
To the Editor of the Life-Boat Journal.
SIR, As the saving of life from shipwreck must always be a subject of great interest to the public of this country, by whatever means it may be...
Category: Correspondence
Magic moments
They have helped Harry Potter out of a few scrapes on the big screen – but what real lifesaving antics have cinema’s favourite twins been getting up to?
Filmgoers have been under Harry Potter’s...
Category: Articles
The Converted Yacht Thoma II,a Tug and a Fire-Float
OCTOBER 26TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 7.45 in the evening the naval control asked the life-boat coxswain to assemble his crew, as a vessel, somewhere in the east anchorage, was sending out a wireless SOS, and a tug and a fire-float...
When the London Steamer Barnhill Was Attacked from the Air Off Beachy Head and Set on Fire on March 20 1940 the Eastbourne Lifeboat Went to Her Help and Put Two
When the London steamer Barnhill was attacked from the air off Beachy Head and set on fire on March 20, 1940, the Eastbourne lifeboat went to her help and put two of her crew aboard to rescue the si'earner''s master who had been... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
CZ Scientific Instruments Ltd
THE WORLD'S FINEST BINOCULARS There is an extravagant pleasure owning something which represents the ultimate in quality and craftsmanship . . . bearing a name which is always mentioned with pride. This is why everyone wants to own a...
Category: Advertisement
Your Letters
Whilst reading the winter 1999/00 issue of the lifeboat, I came across the piece about the refurbished lifeboat Queen Victoria which was said to be thought as the oldest RNLI lifeboat in existence.
It is not the oldest boat...
Category: Correspondence
United States Life-Saving Service
WE have received the Annual Report 01 the operations of the United States Life- Saving Service for the year ended the 30th June, 1890, issued from the Govern- ment Printing Office at Washington in 1892, the Service being a branch of the...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the February and March Meetings of the Committee of Management
February Meeting.
Appledore, and Clovelly, Devon.—-Dur- ing the afternoon of the 7th August, 1937, signals were seen coming from a small motor yacht oft Westward Ho, A moderate N.N. W. breeze was blowing, with a smooth to...
Category: Services
Life-Boat Establishments
THE following Circular*, which has been issued by the Board of Trade to Life-boat Committees throughout the United Kingdom, provides, under certain indispensable conditions, for the increased efficiency of the lifeboat service.
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Category: Articles