LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Returning from a Service
The Lowestoft Motor Life-boat after standing by a ketch for six hours. - View image in PDF
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Category: Photographs
Some Ways of Raising Money
In December last, the Viscountess Hawarden was chairman of the Central London Women's Committee 150th anniversary Lifeboat and Mermaid Ball at the Dorchester Hotel. The event was graced by the presence of the Duke and Duchess of Kent and...
Category: Donations
"The Life-Boat and Its Story."
WE have received a copy of " The Life- Boat and Its Story," by Noel T. Methley (Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd., price 7s. &d.) too late for review in this issue of the Life-boat Journal. We can, therefore, at the present moment,...
Category: Articles
Town & Country Driveways
Driveways that create a lasting impression Although a Town & Country driveway is beautiful to look at, its beauty is more than skin deep. Beneath the surface is a unique fibre reinforcement that helps prevent sinking and...
Category: Advertisement
Two Views of Henry Browne's 'Port-Hole' Compass: Fitted Into Main Bulkhead It Projects Fore and Aft Into Cabin and Cockpit
Two views of Henry Browne's 'Port-hole' compass: fitted into main bulkhead, it projects fore and aft into cabin and cockpit.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Tekwiji
At about 12.30 P.M. on the 10th of October, a schooner was seen driving dangerously near the outer end of Teignmouth bar. A strong S.S.W.
gale had been blowing all night, but it had then moderated somewhat; the seas however...
Gorsethorn
DECEMBER 6-7TH. - NEW BRIGH-TON, CHESHIRE. Shortly after five in the evening a message was received from the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board that the Liverpool steamer Gorsethorn had sent an SOS that she was disabled fifteen miles N.W. by W....
Six Men Lost from Rowing Boat
ALBERT COTTIER, assistant motor mechanic of the Ramsey (Isle of Man) life-boat station, lost his life, together with five other men when a rowing boat capsized on the 8th of March, 1956. An unsuccessful search by the Ramsey life-boat was...
Category: Obituaries
Harwich's New Atlantic 21 Dedicated on Saturday May 27 By the Reverend J Chelton the Branch Padre Was Provided By Dudley Hunt; Mr and Mrs R Aitken Member
Harwich's new Atlantic 21, dedicated on Saturday May 27 by the Reverend J. Chelton, the branch padre, was provided by Dudley Hunt; Mr and Mrs R. Aitken, members of the family, were present. Also present were members of Harwich and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Motor Boat
Broughty Ferry, Angus.—At four o'clock in the afternoon of the 10th of April, 1949, the Carnoustie coastguard telephoned that a small motor boat, with two on board, was alongside the North Carr Lightvessel. She had sprung a leak. The...