LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

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WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX On the 19th January, 1941, the Walton and Frinton life-boat rescued the crew of three of the sailing barge Martha, of Rochester.

COXSWAIN THOMAS H. BLOOM was awarded the bronze...

RAMSGATE. — During a moderate breeze from the N.W., and in cloudy and misty weather, on the 21st January, guns were heard from the direction of the Goodwin Sands. The steam-tug Aid and the Lifeboat Bradford were at once manned, and left the...

BROADSTAIRS AND RAMSGATE. — The brigantines Glance and Glide, of Ramsgate, both bound for Ramsgate from the north with coal, came into collision off the North Foreland in a strong E.N.E. gale, snow squalls, and a heavy sea on the morning of...

DONNA NOOK, LINCOLNSHIRE.—On the 6th October the trawler Dr. Kenealy, of Hull, when about 150 miles from the Humber, found the Russian schooner Eva, of Abo, dismasted, and abandoned by her crew. She took her in tow, and two of the...

IN 1882 the Institution opened a store- yard at Poplar, on the Thames. Until about five years before that time its Iife-boats4iad all been fitted at the boat- builders' yards, ropes and gear for each boat being separately ordered from...

Lizard-Cadgwith: 52' Burnett lifeboat The Duke of Cornwall (Civil Service No. 33) on exercise with an RNAS Culdrose Wessex Mk I helicopter off the Lizard. Two of the RN aircrew launched with the lifeboat; three lifeboatmen spent a short... - View image in PDF

THE number of ropes and other stores which are perceived by anyone glancing into a Life-boat cause the admiring, if somewhat bewildered, landsman to ask what room is left for the rescued passengers; and even the seaman unused to Life-boat...