LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Overall, Blue Peter Lifeboats Have Launched More Than 4,300
Overall, Blue Peter lifeboats have launched more than 4,300 times, saving the lives of 1,028 people.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mr. S. E. Saunders, of Cowes
Mr. Samuel Edward Saunders, of Cowes, who died on 17th December, at the age of seventy-seven, was very closely associated with the building of the present motor life-boat fleet, first as head of his own firm, Messrs. S....
Category: Obituaries
Reviews
Abandon Ship, by Vice-Admiral Gordon Campbell, V.C., D.S.O.
Hodder & Stoughton. 7s. Qd.
Heroes of British Life-boats, by Gerda Shairer and Egon Jameson. Harrap.
7s....
Category: Articles
The Clayton Motor Tractor on Trial at Katnijk. Launching the Life-Boat
The Clayton Motor Tractor On Trial at Katnijk Launching The Life-Boat. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
(Left) Crowds File Past the Ropework Display on the Depot 'Nature Trail'
(Left) Crowds file past the ropework display on the depot 'nature trail'.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lorerelie
CABIN CRUISER SANK Weymouth, Dorset. At 3.40 p.m. on xyth May, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a cabin cruiser was in distress 5! miles north-west of Portland Bill. The life-boat Frank Spiller Locke left at 3.50 in a...
The Tender Offshore I
At 2 p.m. on 5th August, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that four youths in a hired rowing dinghy were missing. At 2.37 the life-boat Edian Courtauld left her moorings in a fresh west north westerly breeze and a rough...
Mrs. F. M. H. Coleman, M.B.E., J.P., of Clacton
MRS. FLORENCE MABEL HENRIETTA COLEJIAX, M.B.E., J.P., of Clacton, who died on the 25th of August, 1952, at the age of eighty, had been for thirty years a distinguished and most successful worker for the Life-boat...
Category: Obituaries
Fund Raisers
A tower of coins It took one year for the landlord of "The Shoulder of Mutton" in Binfield to build a two foot high tower of 2p and Ip coins, using beer as an adhesive and filling the hollow centre with lOp...
Category: Articles
Hunter
On the 8th January at 7.15 A.M., the Harbour-master at Ramsgate received a telegram from the coastguard officer at Harwich thus worded: "Large ship ashore on Shipwash: Liverpool tug going out, but got no Life-boat." The Ramsgate...