LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Coming from As Far Afield As Ireland and Humberside
Coming from as far afield as Ireland and Humberside, 116 entries made the third Great Tweed Raft Race a huge crowd puller with 15,000 people lining the river bank. There were two categories: fancy dress rafts and speedsters, all of which had... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The American Ship Edward O'Brien
On the 13th February, the Life-boat John Ashlury put off to the assistance of the American ship Edward VBrien, of St. Thomas, U.S.A., which, while on a voyage from Mobile to Liver- pool, got on the Morpha Bychan Sand, Cardigan Bay, in a...
An Income Tax Concession. How Subscribers Can Increase Their Contributions Without Cost to Themselves
WE wish to bring to the notice of sub- scribers to the Institution a method by which those who already give generous subscriptions can still further increase their support without any additional cost to...
Category: Advertisement
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Web of support
Silverware, a blue tick and tens of thousands of fans: all signs that supporters like you are enjoying keeping in touch with the RNLI using the internet.
The RNLI's website, relaunched in Summer 2012, recently won Best...
Category: Articles
The Storms of Winter. The Return of the Missing Crew
( With an Illustration.") " THERE'S two ends to every trouble, Mary; there's the end that goes downward and drags us to the earth, and there's the end that goes upwards and draws us to...
Category: Articles
A Call for the Life-Boat
Dark is the night, and fierce are the winds— , On, gallant bark! to the sinking ship, When lo, a cry Nor wind, nor wave Kings wildly forth—"A ship on the rocks, | Can daunt the hearts...
Category: Poetry
The S.S. West Hika
Seaham, Durham.—On the evening of the 15th January the s.s. West Hika, of Mobile, U.S.A., sent out a wireless call for help. She was a vessel of over three thousand tons, carrying a crew of thirty-eight, and had gone...
The Bradford Exchange.
was a floating palace filled with high society and high hopes.
Setting sail from Southampton to New York, she carried the cream of Edwardian society js well as hundreds who sought a better life in America. It was her maiden...
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Terrible Twins
Caister, Norfolk. At 9.35 on the morning of the llth of May, 1958, the motor mechanic saw a small ship's boat, which had broken down with engine trouble north of Caister Elbow buoy.
Ten minutes later the life-boat Jose...