LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

JULY 5TH. - YARMOUTH, ISLE OF WIGHT. At 7.20 P .M. the coastguard reported two men were in danger on a-piledriver at Milford-on-Sea. A moderatesqually S.S.W. gale was blowing, with a rough breaking sea. The motor life-boat S.G.E. was...

ON page 100 there is reproduced a set of nine poster stamps, which repre- sents in brief pictorial form the history Of the Life-boat Service of Great Britain. These stamps are not for use on letters through the post but as a Commemorative...

some r e c e n t p u b l i c a t i o n s r e v i e w e d THE STORY OF THE PWLLHELI LIFEBOATS (1891-1991) by Jeff Morris THE STORY OF THE FRASERBURGH LIFEBOATS by Jeff Morris Both published by Jeff Morris at £2 including p&p The...

WHILE the King was afloat in April last j off the Scilly Islands with Mr. Dorrien- ! Smith, the President of the Scilly Isles Branch of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION, in the latter's steam- launch, Mr. Dorrien-Smith was...

Miss Alice Marshall, of Oxford ; Major H. E. Burton, O.B.E., R.E., of Tynemouth.

THE Committee of Management at their meeting last June elected Miss Alice Marshall, the retiring Honorary Secretary of its Oxford Branch, a...

In support of the Lord Mayor of Birmingham and BBC Pebble Mill lifeboat appeal, the BBC staged a Pebble Mill Dash last October; it was a competition to find who could arrive at the Birmingham TV studios by the most unusual means. The first... - View image in PDF

IN another column we give an account of the very fine service rendered by the crew of the Matthew Simpson, the Berwick-on-Tweed Life-boat, in rescuing the whole of the crew, eleven in number, of the Swedish barque Jacob Baiters, of...

JANUARY 2ND. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 12.10 in the afternoon the naval control told the coxswain that two ships had been in collision between No. 1 and No. 2 Sea Reach Buoys. There was a thick fog, with a light westerly breeze and a...