LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Four Inaugural Ceremonies. St. Peter Port, Boulmer, Cloughey and Clogher Head
St. Peter Port, Boulmer, Cloughey and Clogher Head.
DURING September four Inaugural Cere- monies of Motor Life-boats took place, making a total of twenty-two such cere- monies held this year. The accounts of the other...
Category: Inaugurations
A New Civil Service Life-Boat
A NEW motor life-boat, the gift of the Civil Service Life-boat Fund, has been completed this year and stationed at Walmer, Kent. There are now six motor life-boats on the coast built out of the Fund—three on the English coast, at Walmer and...
Category: Inaugurations
Nordstiernen
CLACTON-ON-SEA.—During a very strong gale of wind from the S.S.W., accompanied by a heavy sea, at about 4 P.M. on the 29th April, a sloop was observed in the offing sailing in a westerly direction. The wind increased and shifted westerly,...
Comrades In the Life-Boat Service
Left to risht, Mr. George F. Shee. M.A. (Secretary of the Institution), Mrs. Sim, Second-Coxswain James Sim. - View image in PDF
of Fraserbursh, Captain Howard F. J. Rowley, C.B.E.. R.N. (Chief Inspector of Life-boats).. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Jane and Margaret
At 6.50 P.M., on the 4th April, the fishing- boat Jane and Margaret, of St/Andrews, when running for harbour in a heavy sea and E.N.E. gale, struck the beacon about 220 yards from the pier, and sank at once, the cause of the wreck being the...
Jim Mead Honorary Secretary of Molesey Branch Enrols His Hundredth Shoreline Member 18-Year-Old Kathryn Watson Photograph By Courtesy of John Eagle
Jim Mead, honorary secretary of Molesey branch, enrols his hundredth Shoreline member, 18-year-old Kathryn Watson. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of John Eagle. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The War Department Vessels Brigadier and Grey Lady
AUGUST 13TH. - PLYMOUTH, DEVON.
At 12.5 in the morning the King’s harbour master reported that men and a boat were marooned on the Rennie Rocks between the breakwater and the Mew Stone. They had been trying to salve a small...
Marjan
St. Ives, Cornwall. At 12.20 early on the morning of the 18th of April, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a vessel needed help eight and a half miles west-north-west of St.
Ives Head. Five minutes...
Books
• The Flamborough Life-boats: A History of the Flamborough Stations, by Ralph S. Fawcett (Fawcett, 74 Lime Grove, Draycott, Derby, price 25p plus 5p postage) tells the story of one of Yorkshire's famous stations. Before 1871 there had,...
Category: Articles
Greenhaven
Arranmore, Co. Donegal.—About three o'clock on the afternoon of the 29th of February, 1956, the Malin Head radio station reported that the motor vessel Greenhaven, of Newcastle, had wire- lessed that her engine had broken down five and a...