LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Little Knits!
Little knits! Over the last two years Mrs Morley from Cowes has been knitting little lifeboatmen. - View image in PDF
Most are sold during Cowes Week and so far she has raised £80 for the lifeboats in this way.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Life-Boats In the Battle of Britain.
The defeat of Germany's air attack on this country in the autumn of 1940, known as the Battle of Britain, lasted, according to the official accounts, from August 8th. to October 31st. During these 85 days life-boats were launched to the...
Category: Articles
General Index
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Category: Index
Kelpie, of London
On the 28th December this life-boat again went off, in reply to signals of distress from a vessel which was observed to stop in her course near the shoal of the Barber Sand.
On the -life-boat arriving alongside, the vessel...
New Ways of Raising Money
When the Barnt Green ladies' life-boat guild had their annual meeting the collecting box from the Barnt Green sailing club was opened. It contained over £3 —mostly in half-crowns. This is because there is a local rule in the sailing...
Category: Donations
Motor Life-Boats of the Institution. No. 2.—The 51-Feet Barnett (Stromness) Type
THE 51-feet Barnett (Stromness) Motor Life-boat is a modification of the 60-feet Barnett Motor Life-boat which was described in The Lifeboat for last February. She is nearly as fast as the larger type (only half a knot less), but she has not...
Category: Articles
Service to a Tanker of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary
AT 3.40 on the afternoon of 17th November, 1962 the honorary secre- tary of the Clovelly life-boat station, Mr. J. C. Hilton, learnt from the coast- guard that a tug was firing red flares three miles north-west of Hartland Point. Five...
Category: Services
Fiona
Swanage, Dorset - At 1.19 p.m. on 2ist June, 1967, information was received that a cabin cruiser had broken down one mile south of Hopelake and that the crew of two were signalling for assistance. The life-boat R.L.P. was launched at 1.26 in...
United States Life-Saving Service
AT the close of the year ended the 30th June, 1906, the United States Life-Saving Establishment comprised 278 stations, an increase of one station as compared with the total of the preceding year. All the stations were comprised in thirteen...
Category: Articles
A Smack
Singularly enough, the services of the Life-boat were again called into requisition, after an interval of three days had elapsed, making the third time she had been actively engaged in the course of a week.
A small open,...