LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

You plan for things that might happen.

•1 GOLDEN CHARTER Pre-Paid Funeral Plans How about planning for something that definitely will? THERE COMES A TIME in life when it's natural to consider your own funeral...and to...

A Magnificent Group of Services.

19th~21st November, 1916.

SELDOM, if ever, has there been concentrated within three days of Life-boat work a more splendid series of achievements than those which are...

The wreck of the German barque Hera in Gerrans Bay on the 1st February was unfor- tunately attended by the loss of nineteen lives. The vessel, which was a four- masted barque, of nearly 2,000 tons, was bound from Pisagua with a cargo of...

AT 1.25 on the afternoon of the 15th August, 1961, the Cromer coastguard received a message from the coastguard look-out at Cley that a motor yacht was burning a smoke distress flare some four to five miles north-east-by- east of the...

Launches 61. Lives rescued 79.

DECEMBER 1ST. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.

While the fishing fleet was out the northerly wind increased until it was blowing strongly, with squalls, bringing a rough sea, which...

THR Second Coxswain, who is also a harbour pilot, was put aboard with three men, and they tried to get the vessel* to the harbour, but the tide and wind set her into Dunwich Bight close to the shore ; at one time it looked like the barge...

A CRANE MOVED into the boatshed at William Osbornes one day last autumn to lift first the twin engines and then the superstructure aboard the 37ft 6in Rother class lifeboat which will be RNLB Shoreline.

The engines are twin...

• No one could be better fitted to write Mayday! Mayday!: A History of the Guernsey Lifeboat Station than Jurat Guy Blampied, QBE, who, an RNAS seaplane pilot himself in the first world war and an RAF officer in the second, has been an...