LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Value of the Self-Righting Property In Life-Boats
IN the year 1851 the first self-righting Life-boat was built by Mr. JAMES BEECHING, the well-known boat-builder, at Yarmouth, who had obtained the prize of 1007., which had been offered in the previous year by Admiral the DUKE of...
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Good buys
What’s the best way to beat the January blues? Why, to hit the January sales of course!
If you shop online, use Give as you Live and the retailer will make a donation of up to 5% of the purchase price to the RNLI. It costs...
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The White Star
CARNSORE, IRELAND.—At about 7 P.M. on the 24th December, a signal of distress was shown from the Tuskar Rock.
The Iris Life-boat proceeded there and found a wrecked vessel, which was hailed, but no answer was received. The...
In the picture
The RNLI has amassed a huge collection of inspirational photographs and paintings over the last 188 years. These images are not simply a record of the RNLI’s work – they tell the story of our social history and give a remarkable insight into...
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Open All Hours
Open all Hours Nearly all of the Institution's 215 lifeboat stations held a special open day during the Spring Bank Holiday Weekend, most of them opening on the Sunday, 28 May.
An estimated 65,000 people visited... - View image in PDF
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A Hundred and Twenty-Five Years Old .The End of the Ketch "Ceres."
ON 24th November the ketch Ceres, of Bude, Cornwall, left Swansea for Bude with a cargo of eighty tons of slag.
Her crew was a skipper and a mate.
They intended to go over Bideford Bar for the night, but...
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Sea Gull, of Dublin
AUGUST 12TH. - WICKLOW. At four in the morning a yacht was reported to be dragging her anchor on to a lee shore, off the breakwater. A moderate north-easterly gale was blowing, with a heavy sea. The life-boat crew assembled and when distress...
Irene and Brighter Hope
Bridlington, Yorkshire. — On her re- turn from the service to the John Watt, the life-boat remained in the harbour and was not returned to her house as the weather was getting worse and there were fishing boats still at sea.' At about 11...
The Bradford Exchange.
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The Sailor Boy
HE rose at dawn, and, flushed with hope, Shot o'er the seething harbour-bar, And reached the ship and caught the rope, And whistled to the morning star.
And while on deck he whistled loud, He heard a fierce mermaiden...
Category: Poetry