LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services of Foreign Life-Boats to British Vessels In 1933
IN the last issue of The Life-boat particulars were given of services to British vessels during last year by the life-boat services of Denmark, France, Germany, Holland, Iceland, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Turkey and...
Category: Services
The Life-Boat
The following drawings show the general outline and principal fittings of a 34 feet by 7£ feet self-righting boat. Figure 1 gives the profile or broadside view, the shaded part showing that devoted to the air-cases, which give extra...
Category: Articles
Mr Charles Noden, of Blackpool
By the death, on 16th April, of Mr.
Charles Noden, of Blackpool, at the age of 82, the Institution has lost a very warm friend and devoted worker. He was a firm advocate of the Life-boat Cause, and his cheery personality...
Category: Obituaries
Rescue By a Grimsby Trawler
THE Institution has presented its Thanks inscribed on Vellum to be hung on board the steam trawler Cuirass, of Grimsby, an inscribed Binocular Glass to the skipper, Mr. W. Brewster, and a monetary reward to each member of his crew for their...
Category: Services
Safeguard Security
Alarms and double glazing are not sufficient to deter burglars Safeguard your home and your office SLIDING INTERIOR WINDOW PROTECTION • •••M H M Now you can sleep with your windows open without fear of intruders It is now widely accepted...
Category: Advertisement
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DECEMBER 3RD. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. At about 11.20 P.M. on the 2nd December a terrific explosion was heard, followed by a series of small explosions, and then rockets were seen going up from the Tuskar Rock...
Unsung Heroes: Frances Hudson
A volunteer describes her recent experience helping to preserve old photographs for future generations
What is your role?
I’ve been cleaning and digitising glass plates, part of a large collection of old lifeboat...
Category: Articles
A Convoy of Ships
AUGUST 8TH. - YARMOUTH, ISLE OF WIGHT. A convoy of ships had been attacked from the air and some of them had been sunk. The life-boat. put out with the honorary secretary of the station, a naval surgeon and a policeman on board, but a...
The Fishing Cobles
APRIL 27TH. - FILEY, YORKSHIRE. As a strong north-west wind had suddenly sprung up, raising a rough sea, the motor life-boat The Cuttle was launched at 12.20 in the afternoon to escort the fishing cobles to harbour.
Some of...
The S.S. Brookside
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At 3.15 on the morning of the 31st of March, 1954, the Walton-on-the-Naze coastguard rang up to say that he had intercepted a wireless message from the S.S.
Brookside, of Sunderland, which said...