LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Aldeburgh's new boathouse was designed to be modern yet relied the style and shape of the older buildings on the seafront.

Although it provoked some controversy when first erected it has met with a mostly favourable... - View image in PDF

SEPTEMBER 4TH. - MARGATE, KENT.

Two airmen had been reported down in the sea, but the life-boat was recalled by wireless when it was learned that it was two balloons that had come down and they had been mistaken for...

Walmer, Kent.—In the morning of the 2nd of January, 1949, a strong south-westerly gale was blowing, and at 9.30 the agents for the S.S. Baron, which was in the Downs, reported that she was in urgent need of food and asked the life-boat to...

At about 8 P.M. on the 14th March the coast- guard reported that a sailing vessel was in a dangerous position near the Lands End. A heavy sea was running vrith a light S.W. breeze. The Life-boat Ann Newbon was launched, and on getting south...

Ballycotton, Co. Cork.—At 8.30 on the morning of the 16th of November, 1955, the life-boat coxswain noticed a boat about seven miles to the east heading out to sea. She appeared to have stopped and was seen through a tele- scope to be...

at the annual meeting of the R. N.L.I.

on 18th May, Mr. Derek Scott, of Mumbles, who holds the B.E.M., the Institution's silver medal and bar and the bronze medal, belongs to the new generation of life-boatmen. He was...

THE 41-feet Watson motor life-boat is intended for those stations where a powerful life-boat, of the stable type, is needed, but where the conditions of service make it impossible or unneces- sary to place the 51-feet Barnett (Stromness) or...

Committee EXCELLENT SUPPORT has continued this quarter for the various projects of the Central Appeals Committee. Captain Phelps, master of John Biscoe of the British Antarctic Survey, on arrival at Southampton handed over more than £31...