LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lily
Whitby, Yorkshire.—The motor fishing coble Lily left harbour at 7 A.M. on the 19th April to haul crab pots. Later on the wind freshened considerably, and when the coble was seen making for home a strong N.W. breeze was blowing, with a...
New Ways of Raising Money
To celebrate the centenary of the establishment of the Walmer Life- boat station the Goodwin Sands and Downs branch of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild launched, at the suggestion of the branch secretary, Mrs. Cavell, a special campaign to...
Category: Donations
Life-Boat Grace
Mrs. A. Wooldridge, honorary secretary of the Stourbridge branch of the R.N.L.I., has suggested the following Grace for life-boat dinners: 'For men of brave heart and great courage; for willing workers in the service of others; and for...
Category: Articles
(Right) a Fairly Complicated Kit
(Right) A fairly complicated kit - a dismantled outboard powerhead shows how the engines are inversion proofed at the Centre.
(Below) Putting a brave face on it. James Magness from Wootton Bassett in Wiltshire gets the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Agm from Page 87
from page 87 Miss F. M. Coleman Honorary secretary of Shipston-on- Stour branch since 1940; awarded record of thanks in 1948 and silver badge in 1963.
Mrs A. L. Kenyon President of Bramhall and Woodford ladies' guild...
Category: Meetings
Wolverhampton (Left)
It may be hard to believe, but the same self-righting principle applies to these two lifeboats, separated by more than 125 years of development. The sails and oars may have given way to turbocharged diesels, but the raised fore-and-aft boxes... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Two Canoes
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 8.37 on the evening of the 6th of August, 1954, the Gorleston coastguard rang up to say there were two canoes half a mile east of the pier, one of which had capsized, and that three boys were in the...
Normandie
Torbay, Devon.—At eight o'clock oil the morning of the 19th of April, 1955, the French Vice-Consul rang up to say that the fishing boat Normandie, of Dieppe, had gone aground near Man- sands, and that two members of her crew of eight had...
Adventure, George and Margaret and Louisa Twyzell
Blyth, and Newbiggin, Northumber- land.—At 7.32 on the morning of the 10th of May, 1955, the coastguard telephoned the Blyth life-boat station to say a man at Cambois had reported that a fishing coble appeared to be in difficulties in...
Toronto, of Glasgow
On the evening of the 30th January the barque Toronto, of Glas- i gow, while on a voyage from Liverpool to | Ardrossan, was wrecked off the latter port | during a strong breeze at S.W. The Life- i boat Fair Maid of Perth was launched as j...