LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Life-Boat to the Rescue. By a Fisherman
THE night was dark and stormy, The sea rolled mountains high, When our coxswain came in haste, And thus did breathless cry : Make haste and launch the Life-boat, A vessel's on the rocks; Be quick and get all ready; Now overhaul these...
Category: Poetry
A Small Boat (2)
At 6.50 P.M. on the 30th April a message was received from the Coastguard at Shoreham that a small boat had cap- sized about half a mile off the Towers, West Worthing. The Motor Life-boat Samuel Oakes was launched at 7.12...
A Rowing Boat (1)
Moelfre, Anglesey.—At 9.40 on the evening of the 7th of August, 1953, the coxswain received a message that three people had gone out fishing at six o'clock in a small rowing boat fitted with an outboard motor, and that they had not...
The Centenary: In the North of England
CHESHIRE.
Century Life-boat Days were held at Crewe, Hollingworth, Nantwich, Sand- bach and Whaley Bridge.
Poynton had a House-to-House Col- lection.
Congleton had a Garden...
Category: Articles
A Rubber Dinghy
At 3.30 p.m. on 28th August, 1967, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that two teenagers who had set out soon after breakfast in a rubber dinghy had not returned.
In view of the dense fog and the number of boats...
2012: A Jubilee year!
We’re proud to call HM The Queen the RNLI’s Patron. In this, her Diamond Jubilee year, we’re celebrating extraordinary commitment – Her Majesty’s commitment to the RNLI, our volunteers’ commitment to saving lives at sea, and your commitment...
Category: Articles
From the Princess Elizabeth
IN 1947 the Princess Elizabeth sent the Institution £180, the balance of her wedding present from Kimberley.
At the beginning of 1948 her wedding dress was displayed in Edinburgh.
The Lord Provost...
Category: Donations
Mizpah. The Danish Barque Aurora Borealis, of Rebe
On the morning of the 5th January, the wind blowing fresh from E.S.E. with thick fog, guns were heard at in- tervals of five minutes, apparently from the North Sand Head and Gull light-ships; and the life-boat Bradford and the harbour...
Notes of the Quarter
AT a press conference held in London on 24th October, Commander F. R. H. Swann, O.B.E., R.N.V.R., Chairman of the R.N.L.I., announced a colourful programme of events to celebrate in 1974 the 150th anniversary of the foundation of the R.N.L.I...
Category: Articles
Three Fishing Cobles
MCH. 25TH. - FILEY, YORKSHIRE. At 7.30 A.M. the life-boat coxswain reported that three fishing cobles were out north of the Brig. The weather was bad, with heavy snow and showers, and it was decided to keep a look-out. Later the weather...