LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Anzac
Shorebam Harbour, Sussex.—At 8.10 on the night of the llth of November, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that a fishing boat was flashing S.O.S. signals.
Fifteen minutes later the life-boat Rosa Woodd and Phyllis Lunn was...
Vera Robinson Mbe
No article on the Zetland and the RNLI at Redcar would be complete without mention of Vera Robinson MBE. Vera joined the Redcar ladies lifeboat guild as a committee member in 1930 and has held every position in the fl guild during the last... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Ilfracombe Visitors' Book
IT should be of interest to Life-boat workers, particularly those connected with Stations at seaside resorts, to read the following summary of the visitors' book kept at the Ilfracombe Boat-house in the summer of last year. During the...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Gudrun
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- folk. At 6.45 on the morning of the 16th of October, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a message had been intercepted from the S.S. Gudrun of Norway stating that her deck cargo of timber...
Eileen
The Life-boat Charles Dibdin was launched, on 22nd July, in response to distress signals from the Gull Light-vessel and found the cutter yacht Eileen, of Brightlingsea, stranded on the North Goodwin Sands.
At the time of...
Spray
Selsey, Sussex.—At 9.20 in the morn- ing of the 13th of June, 1952, a life- boatman who had returned from fishing, reported a yacht aground north of Looe Channel. The sea was calm, the southerly breeze light, but there was a thick fog. The...
Vynesta
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. At 2.25 on the afternoon of the 28th of November, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary of a report received by the police at Lyndhurst that a yacht was aground off the entrance to the Beaulieu river....
C.A.V. Ltd
Chosen for reliability LUCAS The 70 ft boats for the RNLI are each fitted with two 7-inch alternators and control equipment screened and suppressed to comply with BS 1597/1963.
Lucas and CAV supply a full range of...
Category: Advertisement
Shake It All About
Sheringham lifeboat guild held their second very successful line dance at the Regal Assembly rooms in Sheringham on 4 April. For the people who don't know what a line dance is we are told by the branch press officer that it is a cross... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
HMS. Cam
OCTOBER 4TH. - HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM.
On the night of the 3rd of October, HMS. Cam, with a crew of twenty-two, was being towed to West Hartlepool for repairs, by the American deep sea tug W.S.A.2. The Cam had no steam and the...