LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Barrus
BARRU MARINE DIVISION Suppliers of OUTBOARD ENGINES D MI IINSHORE to the [ IXLI LIFEBOATS for over 25 years As a result of an appeal to raise funds by the Lawnflite garden machinery division of E.P.BARRUS Ltd.
A new 'D...
Category: Advertisement
Launching Ceremonies of New Motor Life-Boats
Scarborough, Bomber (Spurn Point), Hartlepool, Selsey and Bognor, Sennen Cove, New Brighton.
DURING the summer of this year the launching ceremonies have taken place of six Motor Life-boats.
Category: Inaugurations
Canton of Scarborough
On the 29th No- vember, the smack Canton, of Scarborough, was observed with signals of distress during a strong wind. The Annie life-boat went off and succeeded in placing the vessel in comparative safety outside St. Andrew's Harbour at...
The Life-Boat
The following drawings show the general outline and principal fittings of a 34 feet by 7i feet self-righting boat. Figure 1 gives the profile or broadside view, the shaded part showing that devoted to the air-cases, which give extra buoyancy...
Category: Articles
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JUNE 6TH. - TYNEMOUTH, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At 5.32 P.M. the South Shields coastguard reported that three boys were marooned on rocks. The tide was half flood, and the weather fine, with a slight sea.
A motor...
Foreign Awards
THE French Maritime medal in bronze and certificates were awarded to Coxswain H. Nicholas, Second Coxswain J. H. Nicholas, Bowman E. George and Motor Mechanic R. George of Sennen Cove for the service to the French trawler Jeanne Gougy on 3rd...
Category: Awards
Cetus
Nov. 19TH. - ALDEBURGH: SUFFOLK.
At 4.45 A.M. a message was received from the Orfordness coastguard that a vessel was in distress about two miles from Orfordness Lighthouse. A strong N.W. gale was blowing, with a rough sea....
Far Flung Fame:
Far flung fame: Alistair Mdntosh of The United Kingdom Foundation for the Peoples of the South Pacific sent in this photograph to show the extent of the RNLI influence. The small boy in the middle of the picture is wearing an RNLI tee-shirt.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Books for Review
Laurence Gilding is to be warmly congratulated on successfully carrying out the tasks he set himself in his new work The Book of Sea Rescue (Frederick Warne, los. 6d.).
He describes the work of ±e life-boat service, of...
Category: Articles
The Steamers Stella Maris and Oria
About 10 P.M. on the 7th January, two steamers, the Stella Maris, of Glasgow, and Oria, of Bilbao, collided off the Skerries.
Within five minutes of the collision the latter vessel sank, but happily her crew were able to...