LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Baron Douglas, the S.S. Korenica and Rumania
Hastings, and Eastbourne, Sussex, and Dungeness, Kent.—At three o'clock in the morning of the 14th of June, 1952, the S.S. Baron Douglas, of Ardrossan, bound for London from Macoris with a cargo of sugar, wirelessed that she had been...
Cumulus I
Clawing off beach AT 2302 ON FRIDAY December 23, 1977, St Anns Coastguard informed the honorary secretary of St David's lifeboat station that the cargo vessel Cumulus I of Panama bound from Glasgow to Beirut appeared to be in serious...
Peter Fulton
Four presentations were made at Newton Road Civil Service Club, Leeds, on July 13: (I. to r.) to George Long, the thanks of the Institution for his services on the flag day committee; to L. Bellhouse, a plaque for raising over £1,000... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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Cut off by tide TENBY COASTGUARD informed the deputy launching authority of Tenby lifeboat station at 1945 on Sunday May 15,1983, that two people were cut off by the tide at Freshwater East, westward along the coast. Five minutes later the...
A Lenten Vow
THE life-boat service has benefited by £5 as the result of a vow by two army officers on Salisbury Plain. The}7 bound themselves to "a particular Lenten abstention," and the penalty for failure was to be a cheque for £2...
Category: Donations
Dear reader
With the passing of the equinox, the temptation can grow to withdraw into the Autumnal gloom. But if you curl up for a good read with this issue of the Lifeboat,you will find yourself transported across land, sea and time.
Category: Articles
1939
funnel (or the exhausts, mast only for signalling and the wireless aerial, and two 40 h.p. Diesel engines. Stationed at Gorleston. - View image in PDF
Cost, £9,000.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Map Showing Air Stations Engaged In Search and Rescue Work
This map is reproduced by courtesy of the Air Ministry..
Category: Charts
Three Little Tales and One Moral
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THERE was once afi actor-manager who set out to produce a drama which was ' to take the whole of London by storm. I Wherefore, regardless of expense, he ! secured a caste of the most eminent I actors and actresses in...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Helena Modjeska, of New Orleans
SEPTEMBER 12TH - 14TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 2.8 in the afternoon the Deal coastguard telephoned that a ship was in danger of going aground on the Goodwins. A light south-east wind was blowing, but the sea was smooth. The motor life-boat...