LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
33Ft Brede Class
A 33FT BREDE class lifeboat, 33-02, is now at Oban undergoing station evaluation trials.
The Brede is a new type of lifeboat based on a commercial GRP hull. As a result of initial development work her wheelhouse has been...
Category: Articles
The Stranding of the "Eider."
The " Eider " rode on the open sea With her safety in God's own hand For a thousand miles—-ay, two, and three, With never a sight of land.
A shell of steel on the world of waves That severs the hemispheres,...
Category: Poetry
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In gully INFORMATION WAS RECEIVED from HM Coastguard by St Ives ILB station at 1531 on Thursday, July 28, that there were people cut off by the tide on the north side of Carbis Bay Beach. The assembly signal was made immediately and the ILB...
Buxey
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. — At 2.59 in the afternoon, on the 23rd of March, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that H.M. Customs at Brightlingsea had reported a yacht apparently in diffi- culties and dragging her anchor off Colne Point. At 3.0 the...
Centenary of the Institution, 1924. Appeal to Honorary Secretaries
Appeal to Honorary Secretaries.
THE Secretary of the Institution pro- poses, if possible, to compile its history for publication in 1924, and he will be most grateful to all Honorary Secre- taries, especially of Station...
Category: Articles
The Royal Life-Boat Matinee
THE second annual Life-boat Matinee at the Lyceum Theatre, organised by the Central London Women's Committee of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild, was held on the llth December, and realised £992 after all expenses had been...
Category: Articles
Centenary of the Institution, 1924
THE Secretary of the Institution pro- poses, if possible, to compile its history for publication in 1924, and he will be most grateful to all Honorary Secre- taries, especially of Station Branches, for every assistance which they may be good...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Wilh. Colding
COLLISION IN A FOG Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.—At 5.5 in the afternoon of the 20th of August, 1947, the coastguard received a mes- sage from a vessel five miles north-east of Rattray Head that she was sinking after collision with a trawler...
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boat Men
DURING May, June, July, August, and September, 1921, the following awaids were made to Coxswains and Life-boat men :— To THOMAS HENRY NICHOLAS, on his retire- ment, after ten years' .service as Coxswain of the Sennen Cove Life-boat, and,...
Category: Awards