LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Lucifer Lightvessel
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—At 1.20 P.M. on the 10th October, 1938, a telephone message was received from the inspector of the Coast Life-Saving Service at Dublin that the Lucifer Light-vessel was flying distress...
Alexandra, of Whitstable
SEPTEMBER 14TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 5.55 in the evening a message was received from a call-box at Westcliff that men could be seen clinging to the mast of a yacht which had sunk, close to the Loway Buoy. A strong squally...
The Stars of Howard's Way Drawing the Winning Tickets at Poole's Arndale Centre
The stars of Howard's Way drawing the winning tickets at Poole's Arndale Centre.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Film Opportunity
The Industrial Life Offices Association have made a film about life insurance and there will be 500 showings during the winter to audiences such as women's institutes, community associations, church and chapel social groups and so on.<...
Category: Articles
The Campbeltown Inaugural Ceremony
The Lord Provost" of.GIasgow speaking. On the right of the table the Duke of Montrose and the Duke of Argyll.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Lifeboat Cake Made By Mrs Ann Griffin of the West Bromwich and Wednesbury Branch
A lifeboat cake made by Mrs Ann Griffin of the West Bromwich and Wednesbury branch was the star attraction at the dinner and dance held by the branch at the Gala Suite, West Bromwich. Weighing 25lb the bottom layer, which represented the sea... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Peverill
At about 6 A.M.
on the 30th December it was reported that a vessel had stranded on the Whitby Rocks. Coxswain Langlands at once summoned his crew and pro- ceeded to the vessel, which proved to be the s.s. Peveril, of Leith,...
Pride of place
Lough Swilly Lifeboat Station has welcomed its new vessel – the Shannon class Derek Bullivant, named after the generous supporter
who helped fund it. Derek Bullivant started one of the biggest aluminium recycling companies in the...
Category: Articles
Coxswain Edward J. Smith, of Kessingland
COXSWAIN EDWARD J. SMITH, of Kes- singland, who retired in February, 1937, at the age of fifty-eight, on the closing of the station, died four months later. He had served as coxswain for seven and a half years and as an officer of the...
Category: Obituaries
Here and There
Southampton Boat Show The eleventh Southampton International Boat Show was opened by Sir Alec Rose on Monday September 17 in brilliant sunshine, and in the week that followed all exhibitors reported business beyond their expectations: orders...
Category: Articles