LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mr. Frederick Britain, of Southend-On-Sea
death the Institution greatly regrets is Mr. Frederick Britain, of Southend- on-Sea, who died on 1st January at the age of sixty-eight. For eighteen years he was the honorary secretary of the station. He was appointed in 1914, and retired in...
Category: Obituaries
An Appeal
THE following verses, an appeal to yachtsmen for the Life-boat Service, appeared in the Bulletin of the Cruis- ing Association for October of last year under the heading "Royal National Life-boat Institution." Beneath them was...
Category: Poetry
Strathmartin
Lerwick, Shetlands.—Early in the evening of the 18th February it was learned that the steam trawler Strathmartin, of Aberdeen, was ashore on Loofa Baa shoal, in the harbour.
An E.S.E. gale was blowing with a very rough sea....
Boy's Own, Speedwell and Cluaran
North Sunderland, Northumberland.— About noon on the 8th of November, 1948, several of the fishing boats returned to harbour. The north- westerly breeze was light, but there was a very heavy swell at the harbour entrance, and they had...
An R.A.F. Rescue Launch
DECEMBER 29TH. - PADSTOW, CORNWALL.
At 11.45 A.M. a telephone message was received from the naval authorities asking for the life-boat to stand by, as an R.A.F. rescue launch had gone to sea and found the weather too heavy...
Competitors In the York Raft Race from the Viking Hotel to the York Motor Yacht Club Paddle Up the Ouse Under Lendal Bridge Winner of the 43-Strong Home-Fashi
Competitors in the York Raft Race, from the Viking Hotel to the York Motor Yacht Club, paddle up the Ouse, under Lendal Bridge. Winner of the 43-strong home-fashioned fleet was Rift Raft; she was made of three aircraft drop tanks and rowed... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Remagio
JUNE 9TH. - HOLY ISLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At 2.35 in the morning the coastguard telephoned to the life-boat station that a trawler was ashore half a mile north of Bamburgh Castle, and the motor life-boat Elizabeth Newton, on...
Little Darlings!
Katie, Melanie and Katie from Whittington Primary School spell out their message in 2p pieces.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Inland Service
To the help of a flooded farm. - View image in PDF
(See page 267.). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Meet my lifesavers
THE FISHERMAN
Sam Cully was fishing off the coast of County Down on 18 September when his boat started sinking.
The conditions were rough – there...
Category: Articles