LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Still Doing Good Work In Retirement: Dowager Ex Rnlb Rosa Woodd and Phyllis Lunn When Acting As One of the Escort Boats for the 1977 Gravesend to Greenwich A
Still doing good work in retirement: Dowager, ex RNLB Rosa Woodd and Phyllis Lunn, when acting as one of the escort boats for the 1977 Gravesend to Greenwich and back sponsored row, organised by Gravesend branch, towed in two boats with... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Electric Logs
IN our last issue we gave a brief description of the ordinary ship's log, -which has been in use during the last 275 years, and of patent logs also in use for the last half century. In continuation of that article, we have now to...
Category: Articles
The Open Motor Launch Y-Not
TOW FOR MOTOR LAUNCH DRIFTING ON TO LEE SHORE Falmouth, Cornwall. At 5.18 on the afternoon of the 29th September, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht at anchor off Restronguet Point was dragging on to a lee...
Two Steam Drifters and Five Motor Boats
Anstruther, Fifeshire.—At 6.15 A.M.
on the 28th March, 1939, a message was received from the Anstruther coastguard that there was a heavy swell at the harbour entrance and that the fishing fleet was returning. A moderate...
Firms and Their Products
% From the Blue Circle Group, Portland House, Stag Place, London, S.W.I, comes news of an interesting cement application in ship building.
Recently cement mortar covering was applied to the largest yacht in the United...
Category: Articles
Billow’s Crown, of St. Abbs
OCTOBER 20TH. - ST. ABBS, BERWICKSHIRE.
During the morning the motor fishing boat Billow’s Crown, of St. Abbs, was caught in a south-east gale, with a rough sea, while returning from fishing. She had a crew of four. The...
All That Remained of the 19Ft Sum Speed After She Caught Fire on the River Orwell In Suffolk Both of Harwich's Lifeboats
All that remained of the 19ft Sum Speed after she caught fire on the River Orwell in Suffolk. Both of Harwich's lifeboats were called to the scene and the photograph was taken from the lifeboat by the crew.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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Category: Advertisement
Man the Life-Boat
WHAT task on earth can man perform More noble or more brave, Than risk his days, and all he hath, Another's life to save ? Yet thanks to Him who rules above, Such men are to be found, 'Mong whom the sturdy Life-boat crews That watch...
Category: Poetry
News from the Branches
Since the War only three issues of THE LIFEBOAT have been published annually. Owing to the great increase in the amount of matter for publication, particularly in reports of the work of Branches, the Committee have dec ded to revert to the...
Category: Branches