LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Cheboque, of The Royal Canadian Navy
OCTOBER 11TH - 12TH. THE MUMBLES, GLAMORGANSHIRE. The frigate Cheboque, of the Royal Canadian Navy, had been torpedoed in the Atlantic eleven hundred miles away, with the loss of one of her crew of forty-three, and severe damage to her stern...
Ethel
About 4 o'clock in the afternoon on the 8th January a telephone message was re- ceived from Newcastle stating that a schooner had been sighted to the south- westward drifting in an apparently disabled condition. A look-out was kept and...
The S.S. Clew Bay
Donaghadee, Co. Down.1—At 4.20 in the morning of the 2nd of April, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel was ashore about a mile south of Lame Lough, and the life-boat Joseph Adlam, on temporary duty at the sta- tion, was launched at...
The Fundraisers
Drinkers go over the limit! Publicans and pub customers throughout south east England contributed to a £15,000 donation presented to the RNLI at Margate lifeboat station. Jonathan Neame, director of Kent brewers Shepherd Neame, handed...
Category: Articles
An Income Tax Concession. How Subscribers Can Increase Their Contributions Without Cost to Themselves
WE wish to bring to the notice of sub- scribers to the Institution a method by which those who already give generous subscriptions can still further increase their support without any additional cost to...
Category: Advertisement
An Aeroplane (2)
Port St. Mary, Port Erin, Douglas, and Peel, Isle of Man.—At about 10.15 on the night of the 10th of June, 1948, the Ramsey coastguard telephoned the Port St. Mary, Port Erin, and Douglas life- boat stations that an aeroplane, with eight...
Mountbatten of Burma Is Hauled Over By Crane for Her Capsize and Righting Trial; She Has Already Been Hauled Over More Than 100 Degrees and Is Still Stable the Port Tube of Her Sponson Supporti
Mountbatten of Burma is hauled over by crane for her capsize and righting trial; she has already been hauled over more than 100 degrees and is still stable, the port tube of her sponson supporting the weight of the whole boat. -The roll bar... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Aeroplane's Dinghy (2)
JULY 27TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK. The crew of an aeroplane were adrift in their dinghy, but they were picked up by a trawler. - Rewards, £14 19s. 6d..
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Category: Services
Ben Henshaw and the S.S. Saint Oran
Ramsey, IsIe-of-Man.—At 9.50 on the morning of the 17th of February, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that the motor tanker Ben Henshaw, of London (which was two miles to the north-east) was flying a signal for a doctor. As the weather was...