LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ilfracombe Visitors' Book
IT should be of interest to Life-boat workers, particularly those connected with Stations at seaside resorts, to read the following summary of the visitors' book kept at the Ilfracombe Boat-house in the summer of last year. During the...
Category: Articles
A Trawler (1)
Longhope, Orkneys 16th March.
A trawler was wrecked at Hoy Island, but the Stromness life-boat rescued the crew.—Rewards, £11 6s. 6d.
(An account of the rescue is on the next page.).
Francis Searchlights
High Intensity - Long Range SEARCHLIGHTS AND SIGNALLING LANTERNS Fully approved M.O.T. Safety of Life at Sea Regulations Details of Lanterns and Searchlights on application FRANCIS SEARCHLIGHTS DEPT. M.O.T.
Turner Bridge,...
Category: Advertisement
The S.S. Castilian
BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT HOLYHEAD FEBRUARY 12TH - 13TH. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY. In the early hours of the 12th of February the S.S. Castilian, a 3,000-ton ship of the Ellerman Papayanni Company, entered Church Bay, and let go two anchors. She...
A Gallant Ramsgate Cook
ON 29th September, 1925, the trawler Rig, of Ramsgate, was wrecked off Tolpedn, Cornwall, in a thick fog, when returning from a fishing voyage at Swansea. She had nine men on board.
Seven of the nine were rescued from the...
Category: Services
The Ladies of Caister
THE presentation to Miss Alice Brown, vice president of the Caister on Sea ladies' life-boat guild, of a silver badge has created something of a record. For her family now holds one gold badge and three silver...
Category: Articles
Interwave (1)
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk and Lowestoft, Suffolk - At 8.4 a.m. on 13th March, 1970, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Dutch coaster Interwave was aground on the Cross Sands bank. The Great Yarmouth and...
Move to Salisbury
WILL all members please note that the Y.L.A.
has moved office to 29A Castle Street. Salisbury, Wiltshire (Tel.: Salisbury 6966 (STD 0722).
The new office has its links with the marine world as the building...
Category: Articles
Sothebys Came to Dovercourt Last February Thanks to Harwich
Sothebys came to Dovercourt last February, thanks to Harwich and Dovercourt branch which organised this valuation session at the Cliff Hotel.
A George Jones plate was estimated at between £300 and £400: a Charles... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Auxiliary Patrol Motor Boat Noel II
OCTOBER 6TH. - HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM.
At about 1.50 A.M. the naval authorities telephoned that the auxiliary patrolmotor boat Noel II, with four men on board, was having trouble with her engine and was adrift off the Heugh. A...