LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Aeroplane (17)
MAY 20TH. - SELSEY, SUSSEX. A bomber aeroplane had been seen to fall into the sea, but only wreckage was found. - Rewards, £7 8s. 6d.
A Penny a Week from 130 Firms
Two years ago the Lerwick Branch wrote to over 130 firms in the Shet- iands asking if their staffs and work- people would give a penny a week to the Life-boat Service. All but one firm agreed. The contributions for the first year amounted...
Category: Donations
B.E.M.S for Two Kirkcudbright Life-Boatmen.
Two life-boatmen of the Kirkcudbright crew serving with the navy, have been awarded the British Empire Medal. George Parkhill, son of the coxswain, serving as officer steward on one of H.M. trawlers, won it for rescuing wounded men from a...
Category: Articles
Surf Is a Way of Life on the North Cornwall Coast - Blue Peter Iv Is Seen (Below)
Surf is a way of life on the North Cornwall coast - Blue Peter IV is seen (below) launching on exercise through seas very much smaller than those encountered in the Vellumwinning service From the survivor's point of view… The RNLI's... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Life-Boat Conferences
South Eastern District.
CONFERENCES of Life-boat Workers in the South Eastern District were held at St. Leonards-on-Sea (for Branches in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Kent.
Surrey and Sussex) on 4th and 5th...
Category: Meetings
End of An Exercise: Dover's 44' Waveney Lifeboat Faithful Forester Tows In Two American Inflatable Assault Boats: August 19 1975 Photograph By Courtesy of Associated N
End of an exercise: Dover's 44' Waveney lifeboat Faithful Forester tows in two American inflatable assault boats: August 19, 1975. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of Associated Newspapers. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Andrew Holland a 13-Year-Old Sea Scout from Inverkeithing
Andrew Holland, a 13-year-old Sea Scout from Inverkeithing, Fife, undertook a sponsored 28-day camp out last summer to raise funds for his Scout group and the Institution. Andrew had the company of his brother David who camped with him for... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Freja Svea
Shortly before this issue went to press Hartlepool's Waveney Class lifeboat The Scout capsized twice while on service to the 97,000 ton tanker Freja Svea which was dragging her anchor and eventually went aground in Severe Gale Force...
The Life-Boat. By the Late Michael Henry
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FRESH launched to meet the swelling gale, At morn the gallant ship sets sail; All taut and trim, with canvas gay, Her stemson cleaves the sparkling spray.
The sky is fair—the prosperous breeze Floats...
Category: Poetry
Coxswain George Leng
COXSWAIN GEORGE LENG of Flam- borough died on the 6th of March, 1955, at the age of 75. He served as coxswain for 14 years, retiring at the end of 1945. He had previously served for more than 11 years as bowman.
In 1937 he...
Category: Obituaries