LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Boat from Sira
Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At three o'clock on the morning of the 18th of February, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small boat from the Swedish tanker Sira of Vaster- vik, with a crew of four, had not re- turned...
New Ways of Raising Money
LEEDS LADIES' LIFE-BOAT GUILD has formed a luncheon club whose object is to encourage interest in the work of the Life-boat Service generally, to publicise the efforts of the Guild and to persuade members of the luncheon club to join the...
Category: Donations
Epworth Ladies' Guild's
Cold and foggy weather in Humberside failed to deter supporters from Epworth ladies' guild's third threshing day in late December, 1984.
The event, inspired by a desire to preserve old farming methods, was hosted by... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Countryman John
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Countryman John make blinds to let you admire the wildlife of the countryside at your windows.
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Category: Advertisement
Marine Marketing
TRANSATLANTIC WITH STREET EXCITEMENT & INSTRUCTION Don Street, author of The Ocean Sailing Yacht' shares his lifetime of sailing experience on video.
More than twice as long as most yachting videos, you can settle...
Category: Advertisement
Life-Boat Conferences
South Eastern District.
CONFERENCES of Life-boat Workers in the South Eastern District were held at St. Leonards-on-Sea (for Branches in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Kent.
Surrey and Sussex) on 4th and 5th...
Category: Meetings
Fishing Cobles
SEPTEMBER 28TH. - NEWBIGGIN, NORTHUMBERLAND. A very strong N.N.E. wind was blowing, with a very heavy and rough sea, and as six local fishing cobles were out, the life-boat Augustus and Laura was launched at 10.40 A.M. She met five of the...
Gerlisa
Aground in a storm IT WAS BLOWING A GALE from the south south east, gusting to storm force 10 at times when, on the evening of Friday December 12, 1986, the honorary secretary of Clogher Head lifeboat station received news that a fishing...
"Stand By Vessel."
Anchor Chanty.
BY CAPTAIN Q. C. A. CRAUFURD, R.N., honorary secretary of the Dungeness life-boat station.
" She therefore stood by the vessel until dawn."—Honorary Secretary's...
Category: Songs
The Barges Maid of Munster, Asphodel, Adriatic and Vigilant
FOUR SERVICES IN SEVENTEEN HOURS Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 2.30 in the afternoon of the 23rd of April, 1947, a resident of Leigh telephoned that a fishing boat was ashore at Marsh End, off Leigh. A strong south-south-west gale was blowing,...