LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Another Foresters' Life-Boat
ADMIRAL OF THE FLEET SIR ROGER KEYES, BT., G.C.B., K.C.V.O., C.M.G., D.S.O., D.C.L., M.P., named at Shering- ham on 18th July a new motor life-boat, presented to the Institution by the Ancient Order of Foresters in com- memoration of its own...
Category: Donations
£17,000 from South Africa.
The Southern African Branch, which was formed at a meeting at the end of February, 1942, had within a year sent the Institution £9,000 out of the £11,000 which it aims to raise in order to provide a motor life-boat to be named...
Category: Articles
Service to a Greek Steamer at Cromer
AT 6.25 in the morning of the 9th October, 1939, the Cronier coxswain learned through the Humber radio and the coastguard that a vessel had gone ashore on Haisborough Sands, thirteen miles to the east. A breeze was blowing with increasing...
Category: Services
Coming Into Life-Boat House
Twenty men were present at the annual meeting, on l l th May, 1938, to receive awards for gallantry. This is the largest number which has ever attended the annual meeting.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Naval Launch No. 173
Sennen Cove.
On Saturday, the 29th November, 1919, three naval motor launches left •Queenstown, escorted by a destroyer, oa their way to Southampton to be paid off. During the night the wind got up from S.S.W., and by...
News
Man overboard! This is the cry no seagoer wants to hear but how much worse would it be to know that, as you slipped and fell into the water, no one knew you had gone? The lone fisherman or yachtsman has always been in grave danger if they...
Category: Articles
Fishing Boats
Gourdon, Kincardineshire.—Early in the morning of the 23rd November, 1938, the Gourdon fishing fleet put out to sea in fair conditions of weather.
At 7.45 a strong E.S.E. breeze sprang up, increasing later to gale force and...
Melba
Nov. 9TH. - BRIDLINGTON, YORKSHIRE.
At 7 A.M. a message was received that a vessel was making distress signals to the E.S.E. A strong southerly wind was blowing, with a short, sharp swell. The motor life-boat Stanhope Smart...
While Paul Squire
While Paul Squire, singer and comedian, was appearing in Bridlington for last summer's season, he helped to raise money for the RNLI time and time again—nothing was too much trouble. So, when the time came for him to leave. Coxswain Fred... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Motor Boat (1)
Anstruther, Fifeshire.—On the morning of the 27th June a motor boat left Methil, with seven people on board, pleasure fishing. At 9.48 A.M. the coastguard reported that she had gone ashore in Largo bay, but as the coastguard life-saving...