LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
In Memory of Dunkirk.
At the request of the vicar of St. George's Church, Ramsgate, the flag of the Ramsgate life-boat, which brought off 2,800 men of the B.E F. from Dunkirk, has been presented to the church. It has been consecrated and it will hang in the...
Category: Articles
A Steamer (4)
Aldeburgh, Suffolk 2nd February.
A man was reported to have gone overboard from a steamer, but was later found on board.—Rewards, £43 10s..
The S.S. Deerwood
The Bomber, Yorkshire.—At about 4.50 P.M on the 12th February, 1938, information was received through the Mablethorpe coastguard and the Spurn Point Royal Naval Shore Signal Station that a vessel was drifting on to the Haile Sands. She was...
The Exhibition Galleon Hispaniola
Sennen Cove and St. Ives, Cornwall -At noon on 12th April, 1968, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary of the Sennen Cove life-boat station that the owner of the exhibition galleon Hispaniola had expressed concern for the safety of...
North Foreland
North Foreland (Civil Service No. 11) isa46ft9in Watson,the first class to be built with a centre cabin and midships steering position. Following the lifeboat disasters of 1969 and 1970 she was fitted with an automatically inflating bag on... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Santa Gata and Norwegian Tanker Realf (1)
DEC. 1ST. - CROMER, NORFOLK, AND THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE. Shortly after 7 P.M. a message was received from the coastguard that a vessel standing by two and a half miles north of the life-boat station wished to land a rescued crew. A westerly...
Jevington Court and Clan Morrison
MARCH 1ST. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.
At 3.15 P.M. a ship’s boat was reported by the life-boat motor-mechanic to be adrift a mile from the shore, to the west of Sheringham. The coastguard at Skeldon Hill had also seen the boat...
Why Does She Get Launched?
WHY does she get launched ? A ship, that is.
In other words, why, really, is a ship always a she, and why is she invariably launched with ceremony and usually the traditional bottle of champagne ? Here are the answers,...
Category: Articles
From the Blind
THE Institution has received a gift of £4 from the chapel collections at the St. Dunstan's Training Centre at Ovingdean, Sussex. This is the train- ing centre for both men and women who have been blinded on war service..
Category: Donations
The Norwegian Motor Ship Oslo Fjord, and British Officer
BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT TYNEMOUTH DECEMBER 1ST AND 8TH.-CULLERCOATS AND TYNEMOUTH, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At 8.50 in the morning the Cullercoats life-boat station received a message from the Tynemouth coastguard that a vessel had...