LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Boat (5)
JULY 23RD. - WESTON-SUPER-MARE, SOMERSET. News had been received that an up-turned boat could be seen on Stert Flats, apparently drifting out to sea, with two people clinging to her. The boat, however, grounded on a mud bank and the two men...
A Ship (2)
MARCH 8 T H . - FISHGUARD, PEMBROKESHIRE.
It had been reported that the crew of a bombed ship were taking to their boats, but the life-boat found nothing except an empty ship’s boat. - Rewards, £19 13s..
A Rubber Boat (1)
JUNE 8TH. - MARGATE, KENT. A rubber boat, with one person on board, had been seen four miles to the north of Foreness, but nothing was found except an empty case and some small pieces of wreckage. - Rewards, £4 19s..
A Flying Boat
OCTOBER 7TH. - SWANAGE, DORSET A parachute from an aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, and a British flying boat had been attacked by German aeroplanes, but in neither case could any thing be found. - Rewards, £14..
None (2)
JANUARY 11TH. - BEAUMARIS, ANGLESEY.
An aeroplane had been reported down, but was found to have come down on land.
- Rewards, £12 16s. 6d..
Wetterfrosch im Glas (Weatherfrog in a glass), 1887.
Before forecasting was an established science, many mariners relied on the behaviour of a certain tree frog to predict storms. Needless to say, it wasn’t terribly reliable and, even today, Germans use wetterfrosch colloquially to refer... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
None (15)
APRIL 2 3RD. - BOULMER, NORTHUMBERLAND.
A small boat had been reported by an aeroplane to be in distress, but it was found to be a false alarm. - Rewards £5 9s.
Jane Smith, of Arbroath
ARBROATH.—On the 25th February the People's Journal No. 2 Life-boat put off and remained by the fishing yawl Jane Smith, of Arbroath, until that vessel had crossed the bar and got safely into port during an E.N.E. wind and a heavy...
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Cox- swain Leslie Charles Pennycord, of Selsey. He has been an officer of the boat for seventeen years, four years as second-coxswain and thirteen as cox- swain..
Category: Articles
A Vessel (1)
St. Helier, Jersey.—20th November, 1937. The life-boat took a pilot out to a vessel lying off Rozel Harbour, as there was no other suitable boat available, and brought back the master to attend an inquest on his mate, who had been...