LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
For Major Osman Gabriel (Right) of Hove Who Donated Her to the RNLI the Successful Selfrighting Trials Carried Out at Littlehampton on 8th September 1972 on The
For Major Osman Gabriel (right) of Hove, who donated her to the R.N.L.I., the successful selfrighting trials carried out at Littlehampton on 8th September, 1972, on the Pother class life-boat of that name which he witnessed must have been... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
£100,000 from the Civil Service
THE ' Civil Service Life-boat Fund held its sixty-eighth annual meeting at the Home Office on 15th May. The Right Hon. Lord Southborough, P.C., G.C.B., G.C.M.G., G.C.V.O., K.C.S.I., the chairman and honorary treasurer of the fund and a...
Category: Articles
H.M. Submarine Truculent
Margate, Kent, and Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—On the 12th of January, 1950, the life-boats from these two stations were out on service, assisting with the transhipment of survivors from H.M.
Submarine Truculent.—Rewards: Mar-...
Arbel
APRIL 13TH. - SENNEN COVE, CORNWALL.
Red flares had been reported, but nothing could be found. Later it was learned that the flares were Holmes lights of the lifebuoys of the Belgian steamer Arbel, of Antwerp, which were...
A Trawler
Hastings, Sussex - At 7.20 a.m. on I3th July, 1967, it was learnt that the Bexhill police had reported a trawler in difficulties half a mile off the De La Warr pavilion. The life-boat Fairlight was launched at 7.40 in a light northerly...
The Life-Boat House
The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...
Category: Articles
Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Benevolent Association
THE Annual Meeting of this Society was held on the 25th May last, at Willis's Rooms, under the chairmanship of his Grace the Duke of MARLBOROUGH, President of the Society. There were also present a large number of the friends and...
Category: Meetings
A Small Boat
Lytham-St. Anne's, Lancashire.—7th January, 1939. A small boat was swamped. One of her crew of two got ashore unaided. The other could not be found.—Rewards, £11 14s..
A Motor Fishing Vessel
NOVEMBER 21ST. - GIRVAN, AYRSHIRE.
A motor fishing vessel had been reported in distress, but she reached safety without the life-boat’s help. - Rewards, £13 14s. 6d..
A British Fighter Aeroplane
JULY 15TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK. An airman had baled out from a British fighter aeroplane, but he was picked up by a boat lowered from a steamer. - Rewards, £13 14s. 6d..