LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Brought Ashore from Dutch Ship
Mrs. S. van der Veen, wife of the skipper of the Lea and her three children (see page 81). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lifeboat Services (From Page 226)
(from page 226) Bridlington, Humbcrside August 3, 20, 22 and 24.
Broughty Ferry, Tayside August 28 and 29 (twice).
Calshot, Hampshire June 10, 19 (twice), July 18 (twice), 19, 29 (twice), August 22 and...
Category: Services
Focus on Dungeness
A visit to the Kentish life-boat station and its crew is described in what is hoped will become a regular series on life-boat stations by Margaret Peter.
The men of Dungeness who form the life-boat crew are proud of their...
Category: Articles
Life-Saving Hammocks
AMONGST the various articles designed to save life on occasions of disaster to ships, perhaps one of the most natural was a seaman's bed or mattress, composed of buoyant materials. Since the space on shipboard for the stowage of anything...
Category: Articles
Barra Island Lifeboat the 52Ft Burnett R a Colby Cubbin No 3 Her Emergency Air Bag Inlfated After She Had Been Capsized and Had Righted
Barra Island lifeboat, the 52ft Burnett R. A. - View image in PDF
Colby Cubbin No. 3, her emergency air bag inlfated, after she had been capsized and had righted. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of HMS Gannet. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
(Right) Sir Charles Mcgrigor Convenor of the Scottish Lifeboat Council and Miss Lloyd Jones on February 9 Visited Ardrossan Ladies' Guild This Year Awarded a Vellum
(right) Sir Charles McGrigor, Convenor of the Scottish Lifeboat Council, and Miss Lloyd Jones on February 9 visited Ardrossan ladies' guild, this year awarded a vellum by the Council. From 1960 to 1976 its annual totals have risen from... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Routledge & Kegan Paul
UNDERCOVER The Men and Women of the Special Operations Executive PATRICK HOWARTH The Special Operations Executive, generally known as SOE, was one of the most remarkable creations of the Second World War. In July 1940. Winston Churchill...
Category: Advertisement
Rnli News
Blowing up a Storm The RNLI's Storm Force junior club will be known to a much wider audience now, following the naming of an InterCity 125 locomotive 'Storm Force' on Saturday 27 April.
The ceremony was held at...
Category: Articles
Their Business In Great Waters. Mr. Louis N. Parker's Life-Boat Play
WHEX the programme for the Royal Life-boat Matinee, at the Lyceum, on the llth December, was being arranged Mr. Louis N. Parker, the author of many plays, and the organiser of some of the most successful historical pageants, was asked if he...
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Trapped_men rescued from pier supports Sometimes the need to save a life over-rides all other considerations...
When Eastbourne lifeboat station heard that a person was trapped on a narrow ledge under Eastbourne Pier it was...