LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Aquilla
OC T O B E R 5 T H . - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. At 10.20 A.M. the Mersey Dock Board reported that the coasting steamer Aquilla, of Liverpool, was flying distress signals in Formby Channel off Q3 Red Buoy. A moderate westerly gale was blowing,...
New Ways of Raising Money
Regular customers at the "Rising Sun" in the City of London are expected to carry with them certain unusual coins which they are known to possess. If they fail to produce them fines are imposed, and in this way the landlord, Mr. F....
Category: Donations
Letters
Welcome home Your autumn issue of the journal will, I am sure, give full coverage of the AGM in May and subsequent medal and award presentations, and 1 should like to follow that up by telling you of the wonderful night we all had on the...
Category: Correspondence
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Arklow, Co. Wicklow. At 10.30 on the morning of the 3rd of April, 1958, the motor mechanic was told that the body of a man had been seen in the sea at Arklow Rock. The Civic Guards were informed and they replied that the body could not be...
Your shout
Some of my best and most exciting memories have been stirred by your feature Then and Now.
Then: I lived in Hastings as a small girl in the 1950s, and remember the sound of the maroon followed by the footsteps of Coxswain...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat Service In 1934
The Largest Number of Launches for Fourteen Years.
Nineteen-THIRTY-FOUR, like 1933, will be remembered for its long and brilliant summer. In spite of this it was a year of great life-boat activity. The number of launches...
Category: Articles
An Eye for Detail In Lifeboat Design
IN THE AUTUMN issue we published two pictures illustrating lifeboat propeller tunnel construction.
Here to round off the story is a photograph of the same detail in a completed 48' 6" Solent slipway lifeboat. Note...
Category: Articles
The Rye Life-Boatman
The figure which stands on the grave of the 17 Rye Life-boatmen who lost their lives on service on 15th November. 1928. The memorial is the work of Mr. J. Wedgwood, A.R.C.A.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Princess Royal at Runswick. Inaugural Ceremony of "Robert Patton—The Always Ready."
Inaugural Ceremony of " Robert Patton—The Always Ready." H.R.H. The Princess Royal named the new motor life-boat at Runswick Bay, Yorkshire, on 20th September, in the presence of over 5,000 people from all parts of Yorkshire.<...
Category: Inaugurations
Fishing Boats (4)
On the following day the Life-boat was again taken out and assisted two fishing boats which were making for the harbour in a very heavy sea. The first boat was got safely ia, and the other one, acting on the warning of the Life-boat men,...