LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Life-Boat House
The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...
Category: Articles
Mr. Harold Cowie, S.S.C.
MR. HAROLD COWIE, s.s.c., a former member of the Committee of Management, died on the loth December, 1963.
Mr. Cowie served on the Committee of Management from 1949 until his resignation a few months before he died. He was...
Category: Obituaries
Inland Lifeboat Loan
Shoppers 30 miles inland got a surprise in June when they were greeted by a Brede class lifeboat 'manned' by local volunteers in Brentwood High Street.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Sea Plane
Shortly after 9.30 A.M. on 17th February, the Coastguard telephoned that a sea- plane had made a forced descent at sea, about a mile east of Foreland Lookout.
Signals for help were also seen. The Motor Life-boat Langham was...
The S.S. Sea Venture
OCT. 20TH. - LERWICK, SHETLANDS.
At 2.10 P.M. a message was received from the senior naval officer that the S.S. Sea Venture, of London, had been sunk by enemy action fifteen to twenty miles east of Flugga, and that the...
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Category: Advertisement
The Silhouette Class Yacht Last Scrap
At 2 p.m. on 20th May, 1970, it was learnt that a yacht in Moelfre sound was unable to make headway against the wind and tide. The IRB was launched at 2.10 in a strong south westerly wind with a rough sea.
It was three...
Safely home
Tynemouth’s Severn class all-weather lifeboat Spirit of Northumberland is pictured towing a disabled fi shing boat to her home port of North Shields on 11 August. Trudie May’s skipper made an emergency call after his salmon nets got caught...
Category: Articles
From a Life-Boat Collector
The following letter has been received from a lady who for over fourteen years has been a collector for one of the Institution's branches:—• "I wish to assure you that all my efforts on behalf of your great caus have been well...
Category: Correspondence