LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Vierge Marie
Penlee, Cornwall.—At 7.40 A.M. on the llth January the police reported a wreck under Tregiffian cliffs. A strong S.S.W. breeze was blowing, with a heavy sea, and the weather was thick. The motor life-boat W. and S.
was...
An Aqua-Glider
At 4.55 p.m. on 18th June, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a person had been waving a yellow coat from a white boat which appeared to be in need of assistance. The life-boat Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse left her...
Ferry collision
7 March: Bangor and Donaghadee lifeboats launched on the evening of 7 March after a passenger ferry and a cargo vessel collided in Belfast Lough. There were no injuries. The lifeboats helped assess the damage to...
Category: Articles
Walborg and H.M. Trawler Melbourne
FEBRUARY 15TH. - TYNEMOUTH, NORTHUMBERLAND. At 10.30 P.M. a message was received from the coastguard that a collision had occurred between two vessels, off the Spanish Battery Point, and that the Swedish steamer Walborg, of Stockholm, had...
The Southwold Life-Boats, 1840-1916. (Continued from "Life-Boat Journal," August, 1917, p. 198.) By Ernest R. Cooper, Hon. Secretary
THR Second Coxswain, who is also a harbour pilot, was put aboard with three men, and they tried to get the vessel* to the harbour, but the tide and wind set her into Dunwich Bight close to the shore ; at one time it looked like the barge...
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A Vessel (2)
FEBRUARY 18TH and 19TH. - ST. ABBS, AND EYEMOUTH, BERWICKSHIRE. A vessel on fire had been reported, but nothing could be found. - Rewards : St. Abbs, £21 2s.
6d. ; Eyemouth, £26 5s. 6d..
A Ship's Boat
NOVEMBER 23RD. - TENBY, PEM-BROKESHIRE. A ship's boat with men on board, thought to be from a vessel which had been sunk by enemy action, was reported to be drifting off St. Govan’s Head, but nothing was found. Later it was learned that...
'Never Mind Your New York Welcome, Your Mum's Got One Waiting For You on the Beach!'
This cartoon by Jak appeared at the height of the Tinkerbelle excitement.
Category: Drawings
Should I Bring an Umbrella?
‘Should I Bring an Umbrella?’
Celebrating weather in photographs
By Alan Johnston
Review by Tim Corke
Alan Johnston’s personal portfolio of photographs captures the...
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Carrying On.
In November the Institution sent its usual letter to all Mayors asking for their help in holding life-boat days in 1941. Mayor after Mayor, from places which have been heavily bombed - the London boroughs, Coventry and Birmingham among them ...
Category: Articles