LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Seine-Net Fishing Vessel Mizpah
Cullercoats, Northumberland. At o.30 on the evening of the 27th April, 1961, the life-boat Isaac and Mary Bolton was launched on exercise in a light north- easterly breeze with a slight sea and fog.
Half-a-mile from the...
Focus . . . on Plymouth
This series of descriptive articles on visits to life-boat stations was begun by Margaret Peter. It is being continued by Stephen Mogridge, who writes about Plymouth in the first of his contributions.
WITH the Navy watching...
Category: Articles
Star of Hope, Freda and Minnie
On the morning of the 1st May the local motor fishing cobles put out to haul crab pots. A moderate N. wind was blowing, with a considerable ground swell, and at 10.30 A.M. with the tide ebbing the sea broke heavily across the bay, making the...
Sea Fog Lifting at Pentreath, the Lizard
Sea Fog Lifting at Pentreath The Lizard From The Painting By Mr Claude M Hart.
Category: Drawings
The Gratitude and Evelyn and Margaret
APRIL 4TH. - SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE.
During the early afternoon a heavy ground swell was running from the north-east. Incoming fishing cobles reported that the seas were growing, with broken water at the harbour entrance. A...
A Donor at the Wheel
Miss Paterson, of Paisley, in her life-boat, Jeanie Speirs, at Portpatrick. - View image in PDF
(See page 399, and for another photograph of the !ife-boat, page 373.). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Three Cutters
SEPTEMBER 7TH. - DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN. At 11 A.M. the naval authorities reported that a naval cutter, being used for training purposes off Douglas, was being driven on to the rocks at Onchan Head. A strong W.S.W. breeze was blowing, with a...
Gifts from the Fighting Services.
Here are some of the many gifts received recently from the fighting services: £63 from a battalion in the Middle East; £36 from a battalion in Gibraltar; £128 from British troops in Iceland; £42 from an R.A.F. maintenance...
Category: Articles
A Doctor's Ten Hours at Sea
Mr. James Hall, M.B., B.S., F.R C.S., who went out four times in the Walmer life-boat in forty hours to the help of sick seamen. In the first six months of the war, he went out to sick seamen more than eighty times, eight of them in the life... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Maldon Little Ship Club's New Year's Day Sponsored Yacht Tender Rowing Race Was Won By Brian Watkins (I) and Malcolm Holland Twenty-Six Boats Took Part and £203 W
Maldon Little Ship Club's New Year's Day sponsored yacht tender rowing race was won by Brian Watkins (I.) and Malcolm Holland.
Twenty-six boats took part and £.203 was raised for the lifeboat... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs