LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Life-Boat Station
THE following brief description and diagrams illustrative of a complete Life-boat Establishment, including the House for the protection of the boat, will serve to convey an idea of the general character of one of the 281 Life-boat Stations...
Category: Articles
Return of the Native
Return of the native The former Aberdeen lifeboat Ramsey Dyce - which served at the station between 1957 and 1976 before being transferred to the relief fleet - visited her old station during September 1995. She had previously called at... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Resolutions Passed at the Annual Meeting for 1878
THOMAS CHAPMAN, ESQ., F.R.S., V.P., CHAIRMAN OF THE INSTITUTION, IN THE CHAIR.
1.—Moved by the CHAIRMAN :— 1.—That the following Noblemen and Gentlemen be the Officers of the Institution for the current year:—(vide next...
Category: Meetings
Her Royal Highness the Princess Anne
Her Royal Highness The Princess Anne speaks to members of Southend-on-Sea's Atlantic 21 crew (from left to right, John Foster, David Goodbourn and Paul Henshaw), watched by station honorary secretary Colin Sedgewick (extreme right).... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Tale of the Life-Boat Service. Ned Ellis, a Life-Boatman of Lowestoft
A Tale of the Life-Boat Service Ned Ellis A Life-Boatman of Lowestoft. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Winston Churchill
IN January, 1948, the latest life-boat provided by the Civil Service Life-boat Fund, a 46-feet Watson cabin boat, went to Blyth in Northumberland.
She is one of eight Civil Service motor life-boats now in the fleet. Since...
Category: Inaugurations
The Sailing Boat Kenya
On the 15th August three young men from a camp went out sailing in the boat Kenya, of Colwell Bay. A strong south- west wind was blowing, with a rough sea, and the boat was capsized. This information was sent by telephone from Cliff End...
Marriage of the Secretary of the Institution
A marriage has been arranged, and will take place on 28th July, between George F. Shee, second son of the late Richard Jenery Shee, of the Inner Temple, Barrister-at-Law, and Mrs. Shee, and Helen Dorothea, younger daughter of the Rev. T....
Category: Articles
A Cheque for £160 Was Presented on 7Th January, 1970, to the Lizard-Cadgwith Life-Boat,
A cheque for £160 was presented on 7th January, 1970, to the Lizard-Cadgwith life-boat, winners of Westward TV's life-boat competition run in conjunction with the regional quiz programme 'Treasure Hunt'. Every time a... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Life-Boat's Crew
WHEN raging seas the bark assail, And hope recedes before the gale, Who follow in the storm's fierce trail? The Life-boat's crew.
Who shrink not from destruction's throes, Nor quail before the dreadful blows,...
Category: Poetry