LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Letters
Local boat How does one 'sell' the lifeboat service? Our branch committee at Barrow-in-Furness believes that where you have a comparatively isolated community and a lifeboat station as well, you 'localise' the boat. There...
Category: Correspondence
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
To DAVID BLACK, on his retirement, after serving 14 years as Bowman and 2 1/2 years as Second Coxswain of the Crail Life-boat, a Pension.
To WALTER POWER, on his retirement, after serving 29 years as Coxswain of the...
Category: Awards
A Sailing Boat
Weston - super - Mare, Somerset. —• At 4.20 in the afternoon of the 24th of April, 1918, the police reported a sailing boat in difficulties in the bay. She had two boys on board. A westerly breeze was blowing, with a slight sea. The boat...
Lorna
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 5.25 on the 23rd of May, 1959, the coast- guard told the motor mechanic that the police at Brighton had reported a dinghy in difficulties one mile east of the King Alfred swimming baths at Hove. One minute...
William and Michael
The fish ing boat William and Michael, of Wex- ford, whilst homeward bound from the fishing - ground on the 23rd July, grounded on the Swanton Bank owing to the vessel missing stays. A moderate breeze prevailed at the time, with heavy...
Swimming
A RECRUIT, on entering the French army, is early taught to swim. Water, when it becomes familiar, is the best of friends.
Soldiers have been known to march fifteen miles further (after a long march) under a sultry sun,...
Category: Articles
Zulu
SEVEN ON BOARD At 3.16 p.m. on 2ist September, 1964, the east pier watchman told the honorary secretary that a yawl appeared to have engine trouble and was drifting in the moderate seas and gentle south-easterly breeze near Quern buoy. At...
The Coxswains Who Rescued 33 from the Princess Victoria
Coxswain Hugh Nelson, of Donaghadee, and Coxswain William McConnell, of Portpatrick (See page 533). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
From Ordnance Survey Map Sheet 94: Crown Copyright N:\Erveil
From Ordnance Survey Map sheet 94: Crown Copyright n: erveil..
Category: Drawings
(Right) This Dramatic Shot, a 'Grab' from a Video
(right) This dramatic shot, a 'grab' from a video, shows the immense seas running as Signature enters Tynemouth Harbour. The pier visible in the photo is on the south side of the entrance, which is directly astern of the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs