LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Imp
Just before 1 P.M.
on the 26th April a man told members of the life-boat crew that a small boat was drifting out to sea and the only occupant was waving for help. A moderate S.W. gale was blowing and the sea was rough....
Eagle
During the evening of the 1st April the life-boat motor mechanic received a telephone message from the police and the coast- guard, reporting that six men were stranded on Burbo Bank. A moderate N.W. breeze was blowing with a rough sea. The...
Your shout
I live on a Dutch barge moored on the Cadogan Pier in Chelsea. One evening I had retired to bed and was drifting off with the shipping forecast murmuring in the background when a Baskevillian scream punched its way through the open porthole....
Category: Articles
Frizzell Home Insurance
HELP YOURSELF AND HELP T 6 6 Telephone Frizzell TODAY for a quote on your next home insurance renewal, and we guarantee that the price you're quoted on FrizzelTs home insurance will be held until you take out the insurance in up to 12...
Category: Advertisement
Jilly Cooper Met Hastings Own Lifeboat Fairlight and Some of Her People: (I to R) Christine Martin Peter Thorpe Mary Shoesmith Bob Shoesmith Colin Green Joe Marti
Jilly Cooper met Hastings own lifeboat, Fairlight, and some of her people: (I. to r.) Christine Martin, Peter Thorpe, Mary Shoesmith, Bob Shoesmith, Colin Green, Joe Martin (coxswain), Doug White (second coxswain), H. 'Sassy' Benton,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A R.A.F. Launch
MAY 11TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At 4.12 A.M.
the Great Yarmouth coastguard telephoned that the naval base wanted the life-boat to help with a R.A.F. launch which had goneaground, and the motor life-boat...
Some Ways of Raising Money
Following receipt of a cheque made out to theR.N.L.I.
for £100 from Southern Television Ltd., Commander P. Thornycroft, of T.T. Boat Designs Ltd., Bernbridge, I.o.W., wrote: 'I feel this needs some small...
Category: Donations
Fishing Boats
At 11.2 A.M.
on the 21st February, the coastguard reported that a number of fishing boats belonging to Pittenweem were making for shelter owing to the bad conditions of wind and sea. A strong S.W. gale was blowing with a...
An American Superfortress Aeroplane
Great' Yarmouth and Gorleston, and Caister, Norfolk; and Lowestoft, and Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—About 6.30 in the evening, on the 7th of June, 1950, an American Superfortress aeroplane crashed eight miles north-north-east of Smith's...
Index to Advertisers
Birds Eye Foods Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Inside front cover Brooke Marine Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Back cover Chubb Fire Security Ltd 363 Coastal Radio Ltd. 361 Cogswell & Harrison Ltd 363 Dagenite Electric Power...
Category: Index