LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Appeal for the Sailor
YOU, who dwell in homes of comfort, Circled by the friends you prize ; Don't forget the vessels tossing, Can't you hear the Sailor's cries ? Cries for help, where no one hears him, Cries for mercy from above, Can't...
Category: Poetry
Schools for Sailors. First Article
EVERYTHING that concerns the moral welfare and improvement of the sailor is of primary importance to a Maritime Power, such as that of the British Empire. Her strength and her commercial prosperity are alike dependent on her strength at sea,...
Category: Articles
Silver Medal for Sheringham Coxswain
AT 8.20 on the morning of the 31st of October, 1956, the Sheringham honorary secretary, Brigadier A. L.
Kent Lemon, learnt from the Cromer coastguard that the S.S. Wimbledon, a ship of 1598 tons, had reported by radio that...
Category: Services
Some Special Gifts
In Gratitude.
ON 23rd September last, the steamer City of Osaka, belonging to the Hall Line, went on the rocks south of Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, and was holed. A moderate gale was blowing, with a rough sea, when the...
Category: Donations
Prepare for the Worst
LAST YEAR'S capsize of the roll-on roll-off ferry Herald of Free Enterprise close to Zeebrugge Harbour entrance, brought sharply into focus the need for emergency services on land and at sea to be alert and ready to cope with the myriad...
Category: Articles
Going Alongside and Survivor Recovery
WHEN A LIFEBOAT reaches a vessel in distress in gale or storm force winds she has come to the heart of her problem; how best the people on board may be brought safely to shore. Can she go alongside and take off the survivors. Or is there a...
Category: Articles
Top Award For Polzeath Five
Sunny days at the beach may seem like a distant memory, but the bravery and skill of five RN Ll lifeguards last Summer has recently been recognised with the Alison Saunders Lifeguarding Award- one of our top...
Category: Articles
Classifieds
RNLLDVD SOUTHERN Lifeboats Featuring the building and never-before-seen action of the RNLI's latest all weather and inshore lifeboats Tamar and Atlantic 85 i_y.yy Please send this slip with a cheque payable to RNLI(Enterprises) Ltd to...
Category: Advertisement
News from the Branches. April 1st to June 30th
Greater London.
CARSHALTOX (SURREY).—Whist Drive.
CRANFORD (MIDDLESEX). — Whist Drive.
ELSTREE (HERTFORDSHIRE). —• On 28th June a Garden Party given by Sir Trevor and Lady Dawson at...
Category: Branches
The Importance of the System of Electrical Communication Established on the Coast for Life-Saving Purposes
IN 1889 Mr. EGBERT BAYLY, of Torr Grove, Ply month, a member of the Local Committee of the Port of Plymouth Branch of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTI- TUTION, published, with the sanction of the Plymouth Chamber of Commerce, of which he...
Category: Articles