LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Love(Life)Boat
On 20 March newly weds Anthony and Cherie Summers of Holyhead got the surprise of their life when they left the church to find that their traditional Rolls Royce had been replaced by Trearddur Bay lifeboat, Dorothy Selina.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Record Number of Visitors to This Year's International Boat Show at Earls Court, London, Visited the R.N.L.I. Stand Between 4th-14th January, 1967
A record number of visitors to this year's International Boat Show at Earls Court, London, visited the R.N.L.I. stand between 4th-14th January, 1967. Principal exhibits were the new 44-foot steel life-boat John F. Kennedy, open for... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Women and the Life-Boats
WE have received the following letter from the Honorary Secretary of the Acton and Chiswick Branch :— " The Institution often holds up to women the example of those heroic women on the Northumbrian coast who help to launch life-boats,...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat: An Appeal
WHEN the wrath of the tempest bursts over the deep, And the woe-laden winds from their fastnesses sweep, And revel and shriek in their terrible glee, As they whirl o'er the breast of the pitiless sea: When the foam-crested billows surge...
Category: Poetry
The Launching the Runswick Life-Boat By Women
ON the 12th April, 1901, the fishing cobles belonging to Runswick, a small village on the Yorkshire coast, were afloat when a heavy sea sprung up imperilling their safety. It became evidently a case for the Life-boat, but unfortunately the...
Category: Articles
Margaret and William, the Ina and the Douglasses
BIyth, Northumberland. — On the morning of the 6th May the coastguard telephoned that three or four fishing boats were at sea between Blyth and St. Mary's Island, and that owing to very heavy seas across the bar it would be dangerous for...
Last August Taunton Achieved a Total of £227 for the Rnli With a 'Mile of Money' First Off the Mark Was the Mayor Hzre Seen Laying His Coins on the Tape Photograp
Last August Taunton achieved a total of £227 for the RNLI with a 'Mile of Money'. First off the mark was the Mayor, hzre seen laying his coins on the tape . . . - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of Jack Beale. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Cox- swain George Tart of Dungeness. He was appointed coxswain in July 1947.
Since then Dungeness life-boats have been launched on service 97 times and have rescued 27 lives..
Category: Articles
The Met Office
DIAL BEFORE YOU SAIL PORTSMOUTH BRIGHTON BOURNEMOUTH Now, before sailing, you can check the latest coastal weather conditions anywhere in the UK, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week — simply by picking up your telephone.
The...
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Lifeboat Services
ONLY TOP OF YACHT'S MAST VISIBLE IN SEAS Five saved as yacht drifts on to shoal in gale force windsA service in severe conditions to a disabled yacht with five people aboard has earned Robert Wright, the coxswain of Pwllheli lifeboat,...
Category: Services