LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Life-Boat Service In 1948. A Comparison With Ten and Twenty Years Ago
IN 1948 the life-boats of the Institution were called out 603 times to vessels in distress.
Ten years ago the number was 485.
That was then a record year for time of peace. In each of the three years since...
Category: Articles
God Bless the Life-Boat
WHEN in dark night of winter, fierce storms of wind and rain Howl round the cosy homestead, and lash the window pane, When over hill and tree top, we hear the tempest's roar, And hurricanes go sweeping on, from valley to the shore, When...
Category: Poetry
Royal National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck (1)
National Institution FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.
ESTABLISHED IN SUPPORTED BY VOLUNTARY SUBSCRIPTIONS.
PATRONESS.
HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE...
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Medallists of 1927 at the Annual Meeting
Top Row: Second Coxswain Roberts and Captain Owen Jones (Moelfre, Anglesey), Coxswain Upcraft (Southwold), Coxswain Fleming (Great Yarmouth and Gorleston). Second Coxswain Balis and Coxswain Blogg (Cromer).
Bottom Row:... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
That sinking feeling
MACDUFF AND BUCKIE | 21 JUNE
A lone skipper triggered an early morning rescue on Father’s Day after snagging a propeller and finding that his vessel had been holed. The boat – a decommissioned trawler...
Category: Articles
The Launch St. Patrick and The Dredger Teardach
LIFE-BOAT OUT FOR 17 HOURS Galway Bay, Co. Galway. At 11.10 on the evening of Thursday the 29th of August, 1963, the honorary secretary received a telephone message from the harbour master at Galway that the 35-foot launch St. Patrick of...
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Blue Peter 7 at Littlehampton Littlehampton's new Blue Peterfunded lifeboat Blue Peter 1 has been named and welcomed into the RNLI fleet at a special ceremony of dedication in October. This was a double celebration, as the new...
Category: Articles
The Prime Minister -•- and An Onion.
A gift of two pounds has come from the recreation club of a motor works.
It was raised by the sale of a model of the Prime Minister and — an onion..
Category: Articles
During the Recent Golden Wonder Promotion
During the recent Go/den Wonder promotion where money, in exchange for tokens from crisp packets, was donated to the RNLI, the pupils of Chennestone Middle School, Sunbury- on-Thames, collected 1,500 tokens. At a rate of 5p donated for every... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Villager, of Inverness
About 9.30 P.M.
on the 30th July last, the tug-boat Ex- pert arrived in this harbour with the infor- mation that she had passed a schooner at anchor on the lee side of the bay, in dis- tress from leakage, and in expectation...