LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

A number of valuable fund raising suggestions have been put forward by Mrs.

W. E. Huntley, of Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, and some of them are listed here.

• At a party or any social gathering ask couples...

Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 12.30 in the afternoon of the 28th of March, 1952, the coastguard reported that a local fishing vessel was making heavy weather as she approached the har- bour, and at 12.50 the No. 1 life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was...

NORTH DEAL.—Signal rockets and guns having been fired by the Gull Light-vessel on the 4th January, the Life-boat Mary Somerville was launched at about 6.15 P.M., and proceeded towards the Goodwin Sands. The wind was blowing moderately from...

FEBRUARY 5 T H . - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE. The life-boat took a doctor to Aberdour. This service was the last of several unusual services carried out by the life-boat over a period of several days.

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ON 27th October, when the motor life-boat from Pwllheli was out on practice in half a gale, with a heavy sea running, she was hailed by the steamer Marjorie, of Liverpool, anchored in St. Tudwal's Roads. The Marjorie was on her way to...

(thrilling stories of Britain's diving detectives and the treasures that they found on the seabed in The Wreck Detectives KENDALL McDONALD 'An expert guide to nautical archaeology' Kenneth AllsoplLondon Evening News The treasures...

THE portrait on the cover is of Holden 'N. Sheader, who has been the motor mechanic at the Scarborough station for 28 years. On the 9th of December, 1951, he won the Institution's thanks on vellum for his part in the service to the...

COVER PICTURE Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse II has recently taken up station at Plymouth. She a 44' Waveney class 'fast afloat' lifeboat built to a design introduced from the US Coast Guard in 1964. Her twin General Motors... - View image in PDF