LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Life-Boat Sculptor
THE following announcement appeared in the Morning Post on 9th May :— " Mr. Frederick Thomas Callcott, the sculptor, died recently in a nursing home at Hastings. Born at Newcastle Street, Strand, in 1854, he was educated at St. Clement...
Category: Obituaries
Foreign Awards and Thanks
EWARDS or thanks for the help of 'e-boats have been received during ie present year from the Governments "[ five foreign countries, Belgium, Jenmark, Finland, Italy and the Jnited States of...
Category: Awards
Knit One Sell One
Keen knitter, Mrs Lillian Hammond, a resident of a nursing home in Hunstanton, has raised £80 for Hunstanton lifeboat through the making and selling of soft toys. Mrs Hammond, who is bed-ridden, sells the toys to friends, visitors and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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Swimmer saved by lifeboat crew A short but dramatic rescue in which three members of Hastings lifeboat station (one of them the coxswain of the station's Mersey class lifeboat) went into the water to save a young man in danger of being...
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
ROSSLARE HARBOUR, co. WEXFORD.— During a moderate E.S.E. gale on the 1st January signals of distress were observed at 9.30 A.M. on a schooner lying at anchor in Rosslare Bay. The crew of the Life-boat Tom and Jennie were assembled, and in a...
Category: Services
A Place In the Boat
A UPE-BOAT MAN'S SONG.
A mild wind, or a wild wind, a sky of blue or black, The boat must go and we must row to the rocky bar and back— To the rooky bar and back, boys, where the breakers boom and roar; But...
Category: Songs
Shoreline
Bronze medallist David Wilson, of Thornhill, Dewsbury.
West Yorkshire, plans to be in Rome next year to take part in the World Model Powerboat Championships, flush with his success in the 1987 event at Schwerin, East...
Category: Articles
Toogo, of Esthonia and Corinthian, of London
North Deal.
In then* long record of service the.
men of the North Deal Life-boat have rarely been so severely tried as they were in the galea, at the beginning of last November. A whole gale from E.N.E....
June
FOUR GALWAY BAY MEDALS On the 16th January, 1962, the Galway Bay life-boat rescued eight men and a dog from the Dutch coaster June.
A full account of this service, for which four bronze medals for gallantry were awarded,...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
SCARBOROUGH.—The Institution has sent a new 37 feet, twelve oared Life-boat •with transporting carriage to this well- known port and watering place, the cost having been provided by HERBERT A. FOSTER, Esq., of Queensbury Works, Bradford, and...
Category: Articles