LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Ramsgate, Kent.—About 10.33 in the morning of the 15th of August, 1948, the coastguard reported that a yacht, which had been heading for the Goodwin Sands, had ignored a warning fired by the East Goodwin Lightship and was now lost to sight....
Some Ways of Raising Money
In December last, the Viscountess Hawarden was chairman of the Central London Women's Committee 150th anniversary Lifeboat and Mermaid Ball at the Dorchester Hotel. The event was graced by the presence of the Duke and Duchess of Kent and...
Category: Donations
Naming Ceremonies
Padstow April 15, 1985 The strong gales that had lashed the Cornish coasts during the weekend subsided in time for Monday April 15, which dawned overcast but calm and dry. By mid-day the crowds were beginning to line the tiny harbour's...
Category: Inaugurations
South African
FORMBY AND NEW BRIGHTON. The barque South African, of Belfast, bound from Eio Grande for the Mersey with a cargo of bone ash, stranded on Taylor's Bank in a strong W. wind with a heavy sea on the llth April. On the vessel being observed...
The Alacrity
COLLIER AGROUND IN THICK FOG Sennen Cove, Cornwall. At 12.6 pjn.
on Friday the 13th September, 1963, the St. Just coastguard reported that a vessel was aground at Portheras Cove and the services of the life-boat might be...
Response and Responsibility
For the hard-pressed citizens of 1940s Europe, the truth of the slogan ‘waste not, want not’ was proven every day. In 2010, the message is being embraced anew by the RNLI to help it meet its responsibilities and to stretch donations ever...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Louisiana
At 5.45 on the morning of the 2nd June the Coastguard at Blyth received informa- tion, by telephone that a steamer was ashore on the rocky beach at Seaton Sluice, about four miles to the south of Blyth Harbour. The message was at once passed...
"The Blessing of Him That Was Ready to Perish Came Upon Me."
THE LIFE-BOAT.
Hark! an awful tempest Breaks upon the night.
Winds and waves are roaring: 'TSs a fearful sight! See the noble vessel, Wrecked upon the deep.
Many a heart is failing...
Category: Poetry
The Fund Raisers
Kipling in the Borders On Saturday March 9 The Duke and Duchess of Roxburgh kindly allowed their home, Floors Castle in the Borders, to be the magnificent setting for a Kipling evening organised by the Honourable Mrs Henry Douglas-Home and...
Category: Articles
I. E. Chase
On 30th January at 9 A.M., in consequence of a signal from the Hock Lighthouse, at the entrance of the Mersey, that a ship was in distress at the back the banks on "Square 43," the Lifeboat Willie and Arthur proceeded down the...