LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Star
The schooner Star, of St. Agnes, in attempting to come into Hayle, during a strong wind from the N.E. and a heavy sea, on, the 8th December, struck and grounded west of the bar. The Life-boat Isis quickly proceeded to her, and took off her...
A Fishing Boat (20)
NOVEMBER 17TH. - ARRANMORE, CO.
DONEGAL. A fishing boat had been reported missing, but she had sunk and her crew had landed on a small island. - Rewards, £10 11s..
(Far Left) the 'Picking' Is Under Way As Mary Thomson and Juliette Kay
(Far left) The 'picking' is under way as Mary Thomson and Juliette Kay check their baskets. A simple system checks the goods against both the order form and the delivery note. So mistakes can't happen, can they?. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Vessel (18)
JUNE 4TH. - MARGATE, KENT, The life-boat rendered assistance after a French warship had been mined, and landed sixty five French sailors who had been rescued by another ship. Later she went out again, with a naval officer on board, and...
Forty Years of Motor Life-Boats
IT was .in 1904 that, as an experiment, the first petrol engine was fitted in a pulling and sailing life-boat. It was an engine of 10 horse power. Two years later three other sailing life-boats were fitted with larger engines. The experiment...
Category: Articles
B.Y. 109
DUTCH SLOOP TOWED TO DOVER Dover, Kent. At 7.14 on the evening of Saturday the 7th September, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a 35-foot Dutch sloop had broken down between 300 and 400 yards astern of the South Goodwin...
The Beeching Model
THE famous life-boat model made by James Beeching of Great Yarmouth, which won the prize of 100 guineas offered by the Duke of Northumber- land in 1851 for the best design of a life-boat, can be seen today in the Municipal Museum of Science...
Category: Articles
New Ways of Raising Money
Collecting house flags of various shipping lines is the hobby of Mr. C. M. Pope, who lives near Sherborne in Dorset. For each flag received he sends a contribution to the R.N.L.I., this "consideration money" amounting to an average...
Category: Donations
Walking the Pier:
Walking the pier: Lennie Denton walked up and down Southend Pier for 24 hours to raise money for a new winch to launch Southend lifeboat. He aimed to beat the world 24-hour walk record of 133 miles 21 yards but despite his cracking pace he... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Aeroplane (29)
AUGUST 9TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE.
An aeroplane had fallen into the sea, but only a patch of oil was found.- Rewards, £4 12s. 6d..