LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Alderman Lady Reed, of Exeter
ALDERMAN LADY (EMILIE WARD) REED, who died in February, 1947, was for nearly forty years actively associated with the Exeter branch, and she found time, in the midst of many other public duties, to give it always her personal and...
Category: Obituaries
The Aldeburgh Life-Boat the Alfred and Patience Gottwald Which Is a 42-Foot Beach Type Being Launched Last Summer the Smaller Picture Which Was Taken In the Sprin
The Aldeburgh life-boat The Alfred and Patience Gottwald, which is a 42-foot beach type, being launched last summer. The smaller picture, which was taken in the Spring of last year, shows the same life-boat setting out on an actual... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 8th October, 1931.
Special Meeting.
Sir GODFREY BABINO, Bt., in the Chair.
Sir GODFREY BARING, Bfc., Chairman of the Committee of Management, presented to Sir GEORGE-SHEE a Gold...
Category: Committee
The "Life-Boat Saturday" Movement
IN the last issue of the Life-boat Journal we had the satisfaction to announce to our readers that H.E.H. the DUKE or YORK had graciously accepted the post of President of the Institution's " Life-boat Saturday " Fund, and we...
Category: Articles
Forty Years of Motor Life-Boats
IT was .in 1904 that, as an experiment, the first petrol engine was fitted in a pulling and sailing life-boat. It was an engine of 10 horse power. Two years later three other sailing life-boats were fitted with larger engines. The experiment...
Category: Articles
The Shipwash Lightvessel
Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—At 6.50 on the evening of the 4th of July, 1957, the coastguard telephoned that there was a very sick man in the Shipwash light- vessel and asked if the life-boat would put off with a doctor. At seven o'clock the no....
Rizzio
Bridlington, Yorkshire. At three o'clock on the afternoon of the 3rd of January, 1958, the honorary secretary received a message that there was an injured man on board the steam trawler Rizzio, of Grimsby. At five o'clock the...
The ex-Dutch Motor Vessel Sumatra
NOVEMBER 6TH. - BEAUMARIS, ANGLESEY. At about 11A.M. the coastguard telephoned that the resident naval officer at Holyhead wanted the lifeboat to take out a doctor to the ex-Dutch motor vessel Sumatra, near Puffin Island, as she had an...
Marine Print Offer
[GNED MARITIME LIMITED EDITION by Michael James Whitehand A rare opportunity to obtain a superb quality textured fine art signed limited edition print, titled "A Proud Defeat" Limited to 850 impressions, personally signed and...
Category: Advertisement
Peyton – the World’s Greatest Yachting Cartoonist
Peyton – the World’s Greatest
Yachting Cartoonist
by Dick Durham
Review by David Brann
Mike Peyton’s cartoons have wrung a wry smile from many a yachtsman. We may laugh or wince as...
Category: Articles