LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Life-Boat Broadcasting. Appeals In Ireland and Wales
DURING the summer four Life-boat appeals have been broadcast in Ireland and Wales. On 30th May, just before Life-boat Day was held in Belfast, Sir Frederick Moneypenny, C.V.O., C.B.E., the City Chamberlain of Belfast and Private Secretary to...
Category: Donations
Obituaries
Deaths It is with regret that we report the following deaths Marjofie Berry Falmouth guild president Hugh Bryan Chew Valley branch former chairman Henry 'Shrimp' Davies Former Cromer coxswain (see right) Andrew Forbes Former...
Category: Obituaries
Patrol Vessels
FEBRUARY 8TH. - NEWHAVEN,SUSSEX. Patrol vessels had been reported missing, but nothing was found and, later, all were accounted for. - Rewards, £10.
Sabine
The ketch Sdbine, of Treguier, when bound from Colchester to London on the 7th April, stranded on the Buxey Sand. The northerly wind was moderate and the sea smooth, but as she was on a lee shore with the tide falling it was con- sidered...
Review of Books
' THE MATE AND HIS DUTIES.' By flw late Capt. JOSEPH J. KELLY. Third Edition.
TAYLOR, IMRAY, and SON, Minories, London; ROCKLIFF and SON, Liverpool.
Price 2s.
IN our 29th...
Category: Articles
Some Fishery Statistics
In the first Number of this Journal we showed the intimate connexion between fishermen and life-boats, and stated that in the fisheries of the United Kingdom there were employed on the 1st January, 1850, the large number of 36,000 boats,...
Category: Articles
Cover Picture
Return from exercise: Portrush's 46' 9" Watson lifeboat Lady Scott (Civil Service No. 4) returns to harbour. A housed slipway boat built in 1949, she has, since going on station, launched on service 127 times and rescued 69... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
(Left) With Coxswain Malcolm Macdonald
(Left) With Coxswain Malcolm MacDonald at her helm, the 52ft Arun, Sir Max Aitken II demonstrates her handling to Princess Alexandra and other guests in Cowes Harbour. - View image in PDF
photographs by Colin Watson. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Trawler (6)
JULY 21ST. - FENIT, CO. KERRY. The life-boat put out at 8.45 P.M. in a dense fog to the help of a trawler which was reported to have struck Sibyl Head and to be making for Blasket Sound in a sinking condition. Mr....
Life-Lines
BONNIE little Life-boat! Going out to seat What a splendid picture, Wherever she may be! Valiant little Life-boat! We know the signal well; Of vessels in distress, As rings the Life-boat bell.
Useful little Life-boat I...
Category: Poetry