LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
On the Night of Sunday May 28 Bridlington Ilb Launched to Go to the Yacht Pinkers Ablaze In North Bay the Yacht's Crew of Nine Had Taken to Their Dinghy But Could No
On the night of Sunday May 28 Bridlington ILB launched to go to the yacht Pinkers ablaze in North Bay. The yacht's crew of nine had taken to their dinghy but could not propel her and both boats were drifting together with wind and tide.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
No Life-Boat There!
BY NICHOLAS MICHELL, ESQ.* (With Ittuslration.') IT was a wild and lonely shore, Girded by rocks; the sea-bird's cry, The billow's everlasting roar, The tempest, howling through the sky, The only sounds—as though Despair Sat...
Category: Poetry
Cover Picture
by Paul Ferraby The Institution's fundraisers take advantage of the glorious June weather to display their wares against the backdrop of Swanage Bay and the town's new Mersey class lifeboat Robert Charles... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Exetet Friendly Society
BEFORE YOU BUY OR RENEW YOUR PRIVATE EDICAL INSURANCE IT WILL PAY YOU TO READ THIS.
When you have cover with Exeter Friendly Society, we never increase your premiums simply because you get older*.
So the...
Category: Advertisement
Remus
Three saved .from stranded vessel Aservice to a fishing vessel in gale force winds, darkness, shallow water and heavy breaking seas has earned Wells lifeboat station a letter of commendation from the Institution's Chairman.On 17 November...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
NORTH DEAL.—A new life-boat station has been established by the NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION, at the north end of the town of Deal on the Kentish coast, as it was thought that a life-boat placed there might be useful on occasions of wrecks...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Montferland
APRIL 21ST. - WALMER, KENT. Cries for help were heard coming from the sea, and found later to be from a man who had jumped overboard from the S.S. Montferland, of Amsterdam, but he was picked up by a boat from a Norwegian steamer. - Rewards,...
Life-Boat Families. The Cables of Aldeburgh, Suffolk
By Walter Riggs, Hon. Secretary of the Aldeburgh Branch.
THERE has been a Life-boat Station at Aldeburgh in Suffolk for over a century.
The earliest record of it which the Institution has, is that in...
Category: Articles
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Cox- swain Henry Albert (Buller) Griggs, of Hythe, Kent. He was second cox- swain for two and a half years, and for over nineteen years has been coxswain; so that he has been an officer of the life-boat for...
Category: Articles
Third Gold Medal Since the War
AT 3.15 on the afternoon of 5th February, 1963, Niton radio informed St. Peter Port radio in Guernsey that the Norwegian motor vessel Johan Collett needed help immediately. Her position was fourteen miles west-north- west of Les Hanois...
Category: Services