LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Lobster Creel Boat
Fishing vessel skipper rescues stranded man in severe conditions The rescue of a fellow fisherman stranded on an island in Storm Force winds earned Scalloway fisherman George Williamson an RNLI Bronze medal for Gallantry. The three members...
The Civil Service Life-Boat Fund
AT the annual meeting of the Committee of the Civil Service Life-boat Fund, on the 12th ultimo, presided over by Mr. C. G. TURNER, Controller-General of la- land Revenue, it was reported by Mr.
CHARLES DIBDIN, the Hon....
Category: Meetings
A Dinghy
Ramsgate, Kent. — At 8.15 in the evening of the 1st of October, 1948, cries for help could be heard off the pier, and at 8.27 the motor life-boat Mary Scott, on temporary duty at the station, was launched in a light south- westerly breeze...
A Sailing Dinghy
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 6.55 in the evening of the 1st of May, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that a fourteen- feet international class sailing dinghy, with a crew of two, had capsized half a mile south-east of the harbour, and at 7.15...
Hyannis Massachusetts to Rockland Maine By M G K Pennell
THE OPPORTUNITY to visit overseas lifeboat organisations is usually limited to the four-yearly International Lifeboat Conference; to be invited, and spon-' sored privately, to spend a week in the United States for what was to prove a...
Category: Articles
Dagenite Batteries
Lifeboats depend on Dagenite Batteries So can you.
Dagenite batteries are used extensively by the RNLI; and they don't take any chances. Isn't this the kind of dependability you want for your car ? Dagenite...
Category: Advertisement
The House-Boat Petrina
Dungeness, Kent, and Hastings, Sus- sex. At 10.12 on the night of the 1st of January, 1959, the coastguard at Fairlight informed the Hastings honor- ary secretary that two flares had been seen south-east of the look-out. At 10.45 the...
Henry Blogg, G.C., B.E.M., of Cromer
HENRY GEORGE BLOGG, coxswain of the Cromer life-boat, retired at the end of last September, at the age of 71, after serving for over fifty-three years as a life-boatman. His record is unequalled in the 124 years of the Life-boat Service and...
Category: Articles
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Category: Advertisement
A Sailing Dinghy (1)
Dinghy and canoe A SAILING DINGHY with two boys on board capsized in a fresh south westerly breeze, force 5, about three miles west north west of Redcar lifeboat station on Saturday May 22. The D class lifeboat launched at 1612 manned by...