LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Redshank
JUNE 21ST. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At about 2.35 P . M . a message was received from the Shoeburyness Garrison that a small yacht appeared to be in difficulties off Shoebury. Then a second message came that the yacht had...
True Grit
A severe shock was imposed upon the Yorkshire south west district of Young Farmers clubs on 2 July as they started the annual Honley and Brockholes branch lifeboat pull.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
From Golf Clubs.
In 1942 seventy-seven golf clubs held competitions for the Life-boat Service and they raised £395. This is the largest sum received from golf clubs since these competitions were started Jn 1931..
Category: Articles
Harry Richardson
Caister, Norfolk. At one o'clock on the afternoon of the 19th of October, 1960, the life-boat mechanic noticed a vessel apparently aground on the north end of Scroby Sands. There was a moderate south-easterly wind and sea, and the tide...
Queen Adelaide Pub Putney Bridge Road London
Guess how much is in the bottle! For weeks customers at the Queen Adelaide puh. Putney Bridge Road, London, put their spare cash a large whisky bottle. On the evening of the 'smash' they were asked to hazard a guess as to how much it... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Focus . . . on Plymouth
This series of descriptive articles on visits to life-boat stations was begun by Margaret Peter. It is being continued by Stephen Mogridge, who writes about Plymouth in the first of his contributions.
WITH the Navy watching...
Category: Articles
New Scarborough Life-Boat Named
THE first life-boat of the Oakley class was named J. G. Graves of Sheffield at a ceremony at the Scarborough lifeboathouse on the 11th of June, 1959.
The life-boat was a gift of the J. G. Graves Charitable Trust, and Mrs....
Category: Inaugurations
Two Rowing Boats
The Mumbles, Glamorganshire.—At 3.50 on the 1st of November, 1953, the coxswain reported that two rowing boats with one person in each were in difficulties in Swansea Bay, and that two men who had put off to help them in another boat had...
Fishing Boats
STONEHAVEN, KINCARDINESHIRE. — The Life-boat Alexander Blade was launched on the 5th March, shortly after noon, the fishing fleet, which had put to sea earlier in the day, having been overtaken by a strong gale, causing the sea to rise...
Louisa
PORTMADOC. — During a heavy gale from the N.N.W., on the morning of the 7th November, the schooner Louisa, was observed in the direction of the North Bank. At 8 o'clock the Life-boat CwdvM was launched, -went to the vessel and, at the...