LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Scarf-Helmets for Life-Boatmen
MRS. EDITH MANBY, of Codsall, Staffordshire, completed, on New Year's Day 1936, a work which she began in April, 1935, of knitting woollen scarf-helmets for the life-boat crews round our coasts. Mrs. Manby had the help of 491 knitters...
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Leslie Creasey
ENGRAVED LIFEBOAT GLASSES Old Fashioned Tumbler, Lead Crystal 33A" high 8 oz.
capacity £4.95 VAT, P. & P. incl.
Wine Goblet 6V»" high 9 oz. capacity £4,49 VAT, P. & P. incl...
Category: Advertisement
A Fishing Boat (1)
Kilmore, Co. Wexford.—At 12.50 early on the morning of the 14th of July, 1955, the Civic Guard at Bannow telephoned that two Bannow men had put out in a fishing boat at eight o'clock on the morning of the 13th, but had not been heard of...
The S.S. Deventia
At 2.10 on the morning of the 12th February, the Coxswain at Plymouth received information from the Coastguard that a steamer, which was found afterwards to be the s.s. Deventia, of Workington, was in distress off Bolt Head, eighteen miles...
Lady Leila and Dawk Eeang
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 6.45 in the evening, on the 4th of June, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that the North Goodwin Lightvessel had reported a motor cruiser apparently aground near Goodwin Knoll buoy. At 6.55 the life-boat Mary Scott, on...
Lady Shirley
Filey, Yorkshire. — At 5.10 in the evening of the 29th of June, 1948, the coastguard saw the salmon fishing boat Lady Shirley capsize. . A fresh breeze was blowing from the north-north-west with a moderate swell. The .boat was close in shore...
and from Falmouth: During Her Majesty's Visit on August 6 Prince Andrew Took the Helm (Below) When He and Prince Edward Went Out With Coxswain West In The
. . . and from Falmoiith: During Her Majesty's visit on August 6, Prince Andrew took the helm (below) when he and Prince Edward went out with Coxswain West in the station boarding boat.
Earlier Coxswain West, one of the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Avon Star
OCTOBER 6TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At eight at night the coastguard reported a vessel ashore beside the coastguard station one mile north of Peterhead.
The sea was smooth, but there were patches of...
Augusta
FRASERBURGH, N.B.—On the 19th February, during a storm of unusual violence from the N.E., the schooner Augusta, belonging to Sunderland, and bound from that port to Little Jersey, was wrecked on some rocks to the leeward of this harbour.<...
Sandhill
BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT NEWCASTLE JANUARY 28TH, 30TH and 31ST.- NEWCASTLE, CO. DOWN. At 12.30 in the afternoon of the 28th, the motor life-boat L. P. and St. Helen was launched to the help of the motor vessel Sandhill, of Newcastle- on-Tyne,...