LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Paul Therese
JAN. 2lST.. - PENLEE, CORNWALL.
Early in the morning the Belgian trawler Paul Therese, of Ostend, broke from her moorings in Newlyn Harbour and drifted out to sea. Her crew of six were asleep and unconscious of their danger...
Anchor-Shot and Grapnel-Shot
ONE of the chief difficulties attendant upon life-boats, consists in launching them from an exposed beach. It is rarely, if ever, that a boat can be launched from a carriage direct into the open sea in a gale of wind ; although it is...
Category: Articles
(Below) 52' Barnett the James and Margaret Boyd Leaves Her Berth at Invergordon
(Below) 52' Barnett The James and Margaret Boyd leaves her berth at Invergordon and. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Life-Boat Christmas Cards and Calendars
This year one of the life-boat cards has been designed by an 11 - year old girl, Philippa Mary Dudgeon, of Woking, Surrey, the overall winner of a life-boat Christmas card design competition organised by the children's magazine Look and...
Category: Advertisement
Framed Letter for Coxswain and Crew
A FRAMED letter of commendation signed by the Chairman of the Institution, Captain the Hon. V. M. Wyndham-Quin, R.N., has been sent to Coxswain David Cox and the crew of the Wells, Norfolk, life-boat for the rescue of a man and a dog from...
Category: Services
Aldeburgh Appeal to Fund a 37Ft 6in Rother
Aldeburgh appeal to fund a 37ft 6in Rather class lifeboat was launched two years ago by the then Mayor, Councillor J. M. Studd. On May 15 this year Aldeburgh's present Mayor, Mrs Barbara Brook presented to Vice-Admiral Sir Peter Compston... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Maria
Valentia, Co. Kerry. At 12.10 early on the morning of the 4th of June, 1958, a message was received from the fishing boat Maria of Waterford that she was aground on Perch Rock at Portmagee.
At 12.30 the life-boat Rowland...
The Life-Boat Service. Its Expenditure at a Glance. Its Income at a Glance.
Its Expenditure at a Glance How each £100 of the Institution's Expenditure was paid out in 1954 £ s. d.
32 6 8 MMBHH HBM New Construetioii.
34 2 6 m mm m...
Category: Accounts
Athelduchess (1)
AUGUST 21ST. - ST. DAVID’S, AND ANGLE, PEMBROKESHIRE. Late on the night of the 20th August, the coastguard reported a vessel ashore inside the south-east rocks of the Smalls off the coast of Pembrokeshire.
She was the...