LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
February (1)
FEBRUARY MEETING IN ERKEITHING, FIFESHIRE. On the afternoon of the 9th January, 1940, the S.S.
Elizabeth Bromley was taken from harbour to an anchorage four hundred yards out, in readiness to sail in the morning. The...
Category: Services
Sleuth Hound
Two men who had gone out at 1 P.M. on the 23rd June for a few hours' pleasure fishing in the motor boat Sleuth Hound were overtaken by a thick fog. As they did not return it was thought that they had landed somewhere along the coast, but...
From Navy, Army and Air Force
IN 1938, in response to the Institution's appeals, the Navy contributed £343, the Army, £412, and the Air Force £303. This year the Navy, to which the appeal is made at the beginning of "the year, has contributed...
Category: Donations
John Nelson and Sea Gull
ORME'S HEAD.—On the afternoon of the 1st February the Life-boat Sunlight No. 1 was launched in response to signals of distress shown by vessels in the bay while a strong gale was blowing from W.N.W. with a rough sea. The boat took off...
Wreck of H.M.S. Anson
THE following narrative of the wreck of H.M.S. Anson will, we doubt not, be read with interest. Certainly, it is not a recent occurrence; but there are incidents in it, as in many others of a similar character, which are deserving of being...
Category: Services
Mercury Direct,
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A Fishing Boat and a Dinghy
MARCH 27TH. - TORBAY, DEVON. A vessel coming in reported that she had found a small fishing boat and a dinghy with no one on board, and the life-boat made a wide search for her crew, but found nothing.- Rewards, £4 5s..
Three Cromer Life-Boatmen Drowned
THE three life-boatmen who lost their ! lives when the crab boat Boy Jimmy sank a hundred yards off shore near Cromer were all members of the Cromer No. 2 life-boat.
One was the coxswain, James William Davies, who was...
Category: Obituaries
Past and Present
25 Years Ago From the pages of THE LIFEBOAT, June, 1963 Issue.
Notes of the Quarter THE first quarter of 1963 was a period in which a number of important advances were made in the development of life-boat design and in the...
Category: Articles
Harbour Lights UK
This 141 ft. tall lighthouse, built in 1906, guards Weymouth Bay and the treacherous currents on the South Coast.
Portland Bill Dorset nes.
Eddystone Lighthouse Devtin ,V .v -f timed limited edition ,n:ii!...
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