LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Premuda (1)
JANUARY 16TH. - MARGATE, RAMSGATE.
AND WALMER. KENT. At 9.30 P.M. a message was received at Margate from the Margate coastguard that an Italian steamer was sinking close to the North Goodwin Light-vessel. A strong N.E. wind...
Book Reviews
The Men and the Boats by Bernard Ashley (Allman & Son, 15s.) is appro- priately the first book in a new series entitled 'Serving our Society'. Other volumes on the police and the fire service are in preparation. The book is...
Category: Articles
A Dinghy (1)
DINGHY ON ROCKS Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. At 2.15 p.m. on i3th March, 1964, a member of the crew told the honorary secretary that he had seen a man in a dinghy being carried out of the Conway Estuary on the ebb tide. Visibility was poor...
Yacht Auriga and Haliday
AT 7.15 on the evening of 22nd November, a wireless message was received at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, from the Sunk Lightship, reporting that the Lightship could see flares four to five miles to the north-west. A whole gale was blowing from...
Honorary Workers of the Institution. No. 10.—Miss Letitia French, Honorary Secretary of the Palling Life-Boat Station
OF the many hundreds of honorary workers for the Life-boat Cause, those on whom the chief burden and respon- sibility fall are the Honorary Secretaries of the Life-boat Stations. It is a responsibility resting on them the whole time, from...
Category: Articles
Plymouth Boat Show
PLYMOUTH 1-10 QUEEN ATTERY The 1 st April, 1988, sees the opening of the most exciting Marine Event to be held in Plymouth since the Spanish Armada approached the shores of England.
The Plymouth Boat Show, a ten day Marine...
Category: Advertisement
A Long Tow
BOWMAN B. A. C. LEGGE, of the Weymouth life-boat, has been awarded a framed letter of thanks, signed by the Chairman of the Institution, Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E., K.C.B., D.S.O., for the part he played in helping to bring in a yacht...
Category: Services
Ebro
MARCH 18TH. - FRASERBURGH, AND PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE. Just before nine o’clock in the evening the coastguard at Kinnaird Head reported that a white rocket had been seen off Rattray Head, and at 9.20 the Fraserburgh motor life-boat John...
Five War-Time Veteran and Four Serving Lifeboatmen Pictured In Hyde Park During the 50th Anniversary Commemoration on 6 May 1995
Five war-time veteran and four serving lifeboatmen pictured in Hyde Park during the 50th anniversary commemoration on 6 May 1995. Back row: (left to right) Billy Burrell, Maurice Smith, John Miller, Mark Ford, Tony Bebbington and Albert... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
WELLS, NORFOLK.—A new life-boat establishment has been formed by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION at Wells, on the coast of Norfolk. There was a considerable length of coast in the district without a life-boat, and as vessels frequently...
Category: Articles