LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Watson at Whitby
Readers may be interested to see this photograph of the ex-Whitby lifeboat, Mary Ann Hepwonh, taken at Whitby regatta. The old Watson lifeboat is now used for trips out to sea for holidaymakers and the picture shows her taking part in a... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Barrus
Barrus supplied Mariner outboard engines to the RNLI for over twenty years, we also lead the field in the distribution of high quality engine powered productrs within the Farm and Garden, Industrial and marine markets, through selected...
Category: Advertisement
Lord Beaconsfield, of Hull
OCTOBER 17TH. - ARBROATH, ANGUS.
At 11.30 at night the coastguard reported a vessel ashore off Prail Castle, and at 11.45, in calm weather, the motor life-boat John and William Mudie was launched. She found the trawler Lord...
Manchester and Salford XXIX
In 1940 the Manchester and Salford Branch launched an appeal for £10,000 to build a motor life-boat to replace the life-boat which had been lost in the evacuation of the B. E. F. from Dunkirk. That fund has now been completed. It has...
Category: Articles
Eliza
PADSTOW, CORNWALL.—At about 1.30 p.m. on the 10th October, during a strong gale from the N.N.W. and a high sea, the Arab Life-boat put off to the assistance of a schooner which while running for the harbour, having sprung a leak, had struck...
A Big Increase In the World's Shipping
THE new volumes of Lloyd's Register of Shipping which have just been published record the very interesting fact that during the past year the total tonnage of the world has been increased by 408,540 tons, nearly three times as big an...
Category: Articles
Endeavour, Faith Star, Progress, Venus, Lead Us, Provider A, etc
Whitby, Yorkshire. — At eleven in the morning of the 7th of March, 1952fishermen reported that conditions on the outer harbour bar were very dangerous for returning fishing boats, and at 11.15 the No. 1 life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was...
Mrs. L. R. Lowe, Gosfield
MRS. LOUISA RUTH LOWE, of Gosfield Hall, Essex, who died on 24th February in her 95th year had for eighteen years been the president of the Halstead and Gosfield branch, and had taken a very personal and generous interest in its work. She...
Category: Obituaries
Motor Fishing Vessel No. 799
PROPELLER LOST Walmer, Kent—During the afternoon of the 19th of January, 1948, a motor fishing vessel was drifting in the Downs, and a passing steamer signalled for help for her. At 3.40 the motor life- boat Charles Dibdin—Civil Service No....
The S.S. Baron
Walmer, Kent.—In the morning of the 2nd of January, 1949, a strong south-westerly gale was blowing, and at 9.30 the agents for the S.S. Baron, which was in the Downs, reported that she was in urgent need of food and asked the life-boat to...