LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Life-Boat
The following figures show the general form,, the nature of the fittings and air-chambers of one of these boats, 33 feet in length and 8 feet in breadth. In figs. 1 and 2, the elevation and deck plans, the general exterior form of the boat...
Category: Articles
Black Maria
Fowey, Cornwall.—On the evening of the 16th of September, 1950, the yacht Black Maria, with no one on board, broke her moorings at Fowey. In a rough sea and a fresh south-westerly gale, she was swept up the harbour, striking the life-boat...
One Stop Beyond, Racing In Dublin Bay on 22nd August, 1969,
When the dinghy One Stop Beyond, racing in Dublin Bay on 22nd August, 1969, broke her rudder near the harbour and started drifting seawards, her crew of two used paddles in the near gale force wind to reach security of a... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Walmer: (Below) Hampshire Rose With Her Crew and the Lifeboat People of Kent and Hampshire As Well As Neighbouring Stations Who Had Gathered for Her Naming Music
Walmer: (Below) Hampshire Rose with her crew and the lifeboat people of Kent and Hampshire, as well as neighbouring stations, who had gathered for her naming.
Music was by the Junior Band of the Royal Marines and fanfares... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Fishing Cobles (1)
Nov. 3RD. - FILEY, YORKSHIRE. During the morning four motor fishing cobles were at sea. The weather was bad. Watch was kept, and at 11.40 A.M., as the conditions were then dangerous for the returning boats, the pulling and sailing life-boat...
Brownies, Guides and Rangers Raise £22,000
TEN YEARS AGO the Guide Friendship Fund (GFF) was launched. The first year Brownies, Guides and Rangers in the United Kingdom donated £1,500 to help Guiding in the developing countries.
In 1970 they raised £20,000...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Esbo (3)
Barrow, Lancashire ; Maryport, Cumberland; Ramsey, and Douglas, Isle of Man, October 19th.—On the 18th October the s.s. Esbo, of Helsingfors, left Preston in ballast for Finland. Bad weather was encountered, and the Esbo got into...
A Gallant Rescue In the Moray Firth
ON the morning of 27th January, 1937, the Russian steamer Kingissepp, of Leningrad, was anchored about a mile off the harbour of Nairn on the Moray Firth. An easterly gale was blowing, with a rough sea. A boat was seen to put off from the...
Category: Services
The S.S. Esbo (1)
Barrow, Lancashire ; Maryport, Cumberland; Ramsey, and Douglas, Isle of Man, October 19th.—On the 18th October the s.s. Esbo, of Helsingfors, left Preston in ballast for Finland. Bad weather was encountered, and the Esbo got into...
A "Greater London" Motor Life-Boat. Gift from the Civil Service Life-Boat Fund
THE Motor Life-boat of the Ramsgate type, which was sent to Southend-on- Sea last May, is to be a gift from the Civil Service Life-boat Fund, which has not only presented the boat, costing £8,500, but has endowed her. She is to be...
Category: Inaugurations