LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
H.M.S. Lundy and her Cutters
NOVEMBER 5TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 12.2 in the afternoon a message from H.M.S.
Lundy, which was anchored off Deal, was received through the Deal coastguard, that a cutter from the Lundy, with a crew of seven, had been engaged...
Ketty et Michou
FRENCH TRAWLER AIDED St. Mary's, Scilly Islands. A doctor rang the coxswain at 10 p.m. on 6th October, 1963, stating that he had heard from the Penzance Port Medical Authority that a French trawler, Ketty et Michou, was steaming at full...
The Life-Belt Used By the Crews of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
The requisite qualities of a Life-boat man's lifebelt are— 1. Sufficient extra bouyanoy, 22 Ibs., to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support another person besides...
Category: Articles
Ann Mitchell
— On the evening of the 22nd January, the schooner Ann Mitchell went ashore near Fleetwood.
The new life-boat, not long before placed there by the NATIONAL LIFE BOAT INSTI- TUTION, was immediately launched, and taken in...
The Lay of the Life-Boat
GENTLEMEN all, are your glasses charged? for I've a toast for the winter weather.
Answer it, then, with a three times three; voice and heart, if you please, together.
It is not a sorrowful theme I...
Category: Poetry
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Thurso, Caithness-shire.—At half past ten on the morning of the 1st of Febru- ary, 1950 the honorary secretary of the Wick life-boat station telephoned that a doctor wanted to be conveyed to Stroma, where medical aid was urgently needed. He...
An American Tank Landing Craft
OCTOBER 13TH. - WEYMOUTH, DORSET.
Late in the afternoon an American tank landing craft, manned by about a dozen British naval men, had got into difficulties off the Chesil Beach in a heavy south-west gale, with a very rough...
(above) Storm Force member Lilly Henley is intent on completing the Storm Force Treasure Hunt at the London Boat Show.
(above) Storm Force member Lilly Henley is intent on completing the Storm Force Treasure Hunt at the London Boat Show.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
British Queen, of London, and Brig Valiant, of Jersey
A very- sudden and severe storm was experienced here on the 10th February, when no less than six vessels were wrecked at the mouth of the Tyno within a short dis- tance of each other, besides others that received considerable damage in...
The Life-Belt Used By the Crews of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
The requisite qualities of a Life-boat man's life- belt are— 1. Sufficient extra buoyancy, 22 Ibs., to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support another person besides...
Category: Articles