LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Meuse, and Asteria
JANUARY 18TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
At 6.52 A.M. a message was received from the coastguard that the Belgian steamer Meuse was aground near the Haisboro’ Sands.
A W.N.W. wind was blowing with a moderate sea...
Going Alongside from Page 123
of getting a survivor directly out of the water. How many men does it take to get one man out of the water? Jones: We picked up two men a month ago, and one of them was completely unconscious. We put the scrambling net down; two men went...
Category: Articles
Lieutenant-Colonel C. R. Satterthwaite, O.B.E. (1)
COLONEL CLEMENT RICHARD SATTERTHWAITE retired from the secretaryship of the Institution at the end of last year. He had then been in its service for twenty-two years, nearly seven as deputy-secretary and over fifteen as...
Category: Articles
Mr Fenwick Aitken's Model of a 37-Foot Oakley Made to One-Quarter Scale
Mr. Fenwick Aitken's model of a 37-foot Oakley made to one-quarter scale.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Peggy, June and Ann, Barbara and Joan, and Joan and Mary
JANUARY 24TH. - FILEY, YORKSHIRE.
Four of the Filey motor fishing boats, Peggy, June and Ann, Barbara and Joan, and Joan and Mary, were out fishing. A strong wind got up from the S.E., with a heavy swell, and at 12.25 in...
Maude
During a strong gale on the 6th August, the yacht Maude, of Glasgow, was observed flying a signal of distress while at anchor, and the Lite-boat Christopher Brown at once pro- ceeded to her. Having anchored to O windward, the Life-boat was...
Come Rain Or Shine
Regular visitors to Lyrne Regis will no doubt recognise this smiling face! 'The Axminster music man' Norman Welsh plays his accordion along Lyme's promenade in all weathers during flag week, collecting money for charities as he... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Naming Ceremony at Sunderland
THE naming ceremony of the new motor life-boat at Sunderland took place on 13th June. The boat is of the 46 feet Watson cabin type, described on page 192. She has cost £8,000 and has been built out of a legacy from the late Mrs. I....
Category: Inaugurations
Squall and Valerie
Margate, Kent. At 4.26 on the after- noon of the 2nd July, 1961, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that a sailing dinghy had capsized a mile and a half off Whiteness. There was a moderate north-westerly wind with a rough sea....