LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Aeroplane (27)
JUNE 27TH. - DUNGENESS, KENT. At 12.27 P.M. a message was received from the Sandgate coastguard that a Hurricane fighter aeroplane had come down in the sea about six miles S.S.W. of Dungeness. A light westerly breeze was blowing and the sea...
Index to Advertisers
Birds Eye Foods Limited Inside Back Cover Cogswell & Harrison Limited 71 Evett Sailwear Limited 68 Functional Clothing Inside Front Cover David Jolly (Tiller Master) 72 Manuscript Limited Back Cover Maritime Book Society (Readers Union)...
Category: Advertisement
Fishermen and Fishing-Boats
Although this Journal is chiefly intended to circulate information respecting life-boats and other means of saving life from ship- wreck, we cannot overlook the fact that in many, if not in most cases, it is to fisher- men we must look to...
Category: Articles
Alarm, of Belfast
On the 23rd March, the ship Alarm, of Belfast, was driven into Ballycotton Bay, during a strong gale of wind, and came to anchor under shelter of the island. As the gale increased, however, she dragged her anchors and drifted towards the...
Island Belle
On the 21st December, at 6 A.M., the brig Island Bdle, of Guernsey, bound from Wilmington to Bristol, drove ashore near the entrance to this harbour. It was at the time blowing hard from the west- ward, with a heavy sea running. The Bude...
The Admiralty Trawler Moray and Empire Ned
DECEMBER 13TH - 14TH. - DUNMORE, EAST, CO. WATERFORD, AND KILMORE, CO. WEXFORD. Just before half-past five in the evening the coast watcher at Hook Point telephoned to the Dunmore East station that a vessel was off the Hook showing flares....
A Patchwork Quilt Big Enough for a Double Bed Was Handmade By Members Ofbangor Ladies' Guild Co Down the Material for the Multi-Coloured Quilt Was Generousl
A patchwork quilt, big enough for a double bed, was handmade by members ofBangor ladies' guild, Co. Down. The material for the multi-coloured quilt was generously donated by Whiteweave of Belfast. The ladies who assembled the quilt are... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Fig 4 (Below): Plating of the First of the Two Prototype Fast Slipway Lifeboats Is Complete And
Fig. 4 (below): Plating of the first of the two prototype fast slipway lifeboats is complete and the hull has been turned through 180 degrees so that it is now right way up. A welder is at work attaching deck fittings to the deck stringer... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Helping the "Little Boats"
IN July Coxswain Roland Moore, coxswain of the Barrow life-boat, received a letter from four very young supporters. It contained a £i contribution.
"Dear Mr. Moore," they wrote. "Last month our Melanie,...
Category: Donations
The Government Sea Plane No. 79
At 8.25 P.M. on the 24th April a request was made that the motor Life-boat Albert Edward should be sent out to pick up the Government seaplane No. 79, and also a Government motor launch which had gone to her assistance, but had broken down....