LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Lifeboat Service— Past and Present
50 Years Ago The following two items were first published in THE LIFEBOAT of February, 1935.
Stories of a Life-boat Day.
ST. ALBANS, Hertfordshire, has the distinction of the help of many of its ex-mayors...
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 Aerial
The 46 feet Watson cabin motor life-boat at Portpatrick, Wigtownshire, fitted with the aerial (or R/T receiving and transmitting sets of the International Marine Radio Company.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Alexandra, of Whitstable
SEPTEMBER 14TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 5.55 in the evening a message was received from a call-box at Westcliff that men could be seen clinging to the mast of a yacht which had sunk, close to the Loway Buoy. A strong squally...
The Mail Boat Hibernia
Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin. At 5.45 p.m. on 6th October, 1965, a British Railways representative informed the honorary secretary that the mail boat Hibernia was fog bound in Scotsmens Bay. She had been there since 6.30...
The Sailing Barges May and Portlight
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—On the morn- ing of the 21st of February, 1955, it was thought that the sailing barges May. of Ipswich, and Portlight, of Harwich, each with a crew of two, were in a dangerous position because of the bad weather. They...
The Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
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Category: Articles
Richard Dimbleby of the B.B.C., In the Newlyn Life-Boat
(See page 31). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Bishop of Blackburn Preaches from the Blackpool Life-Boat
(See "A Life-boat Diary"). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs