LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A French Ship
Skegness, Lincolnshire.—21st Octo- ber, 1939. A message had been received that twenty-six seamen from a French ship which had been sunk by enemy action were on board the Inner Dowsing Lightship. The life-boat was.
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A Small Boat (3)
MAY 1ST. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. A small boat had been reported capsized off Hove, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £4 17s. 6d..
Central Appeals Committee
OPERATION LIFEBOAT has been a great success judging by the various reports that have already come in. The Scouts have set about raising the money in their usual energetic way by walking, swimming, rowing, cycling, clearing up rubbish,...
Category: Committee
A Boat (3)
SEEN FROM LIGHTHOUSE At 2.57 a.m. on iyth August, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the Altacarry lighthouse keeper had seen a flare half a mile north-north-west of the lighthouse. The wind was increasing from moderate to...
A Dinghy (1)
FOUR PEOPLE SAVED BY SPEEDBOAT Swanage, Dorset. At 5.53 on the afternoon of Saturday the 24th August, 1963, the Swanage coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a dinghy with four people on board appeared to be in difficulties half a...
A Storm Force Rally Was Part of the Celebrations of the 25Th Anniversary of the Worcester Ladies' Lifeboat Guild the Mersey Class Royal Shiphght Made Her Way I
A Storm Force Rally was part of the celebrations of the 25th anniversary of the Worcester Ladies' Lifeboat Guild. The Mersey Class Royal Shiphght made her way inland to the Worcester Rowing Club quay for the occasion.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Trustful and a Dinghy
ENGINE FAILURE T At 4.53 p.m. on igth April, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two people were trying to row ashore from a motor fishing vessel anchored five miles south-south-east of Hastings. The honorary secretary...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
CEMAES, ANGLESEY. — The 30-feet 6- oared Life-boat, at Cemlyn, on the coast of Anglesey, has been transferred from that place to Cemaes, about four miles to the eastward. Since the lighthouse has been placed on one of the islands opposite...
Category: Articles
A French Military Seaplane
St. Helier, Jersey.—6th April, 1939.
A French military seaplane had been forced down in the sea, but she was helped by a French fishing boat.
Letters of thanks were received from the French Navy and the...
Deo Gratias
Padstow, Cornwall. On 23rd November, 1965, the Padstow life-boat Joseph Hiram Chadwick rescued the crew of two of the fishing vessel Deo Gratias. A full account of this service, for which special awards were made to the coxswain and crew,...