LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Touching Tribute
THE Institution has just received a most touching proof of devotion to the Life-boat Cause in the gift of two beautifully-dressed dolls, accompanied by the following note :— " To the Life-Boat Society.
"Miss finds...
Category: Donations
Letters
Thanks and remembrance I, as a Shoreline member, am writing to you following the sad death of my brother, the international yachtsman Rob James. He died as the result of an accident while approaching Salcombe in his trimaran Colt Cars GB...
Category: Correspondence
Tempo
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 10.13 P.M. on the 13th September, 1938, the coastguard reported having received a message from the Brake Light-vessel that a motor vessel was aground half a mile east of North Goodwin Buoy. A gentle breeze was blowing and...
Walter Newby (New Coxswain) Receiving the Boathouse Keys from T. T. Hutchinson (Retiring Coxswain), January 1st, 1950
Walter Newby (New Coxswain) receiving the boathouse keys from T. T. Hutchinson (Retiring Coxswain), January 1st, 1950. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A 37-Foot Oakley Life-Boat Was Displayed at the Royal Show In Edinburgh from 20th-24th June, 1967
A 37-foot Oakley life-boat was displayed at the Royal Show in Edinburgh from 20th-24th June, 1967.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Jez Fanstone, Lymington Lifeboatman, Races Around the World In September As Helmsman/Trimmer Aboard Lawne Smith's Yacht, Silk Cut.
Jez Fanstone, Lymington lifeboatman, races around the world in September as helmsman/trimmer aboard Lawne Smith's yacht, Silk Cut.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Young Sam
At about noon on the 7th December the coastguard re- ported that the Cockle Lightvessel was firing signals to indicate that a vessel was in distress. A light W.S.W. breeze was blowing, and the sea was fairly smooth, but there was a dense fog...
Espanola
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 5.46 on the even- ing of the 21st of September, 1957, the Deal coastguard telephoned that a yacht was ashore on the Brake Sands.
The life-boat Michael and Lily Davis put out at 5.54 in a slight sea. A...
Fishing Boats (2)
GOUHDON AND JOHNSHAVBN, KlN- CARDINESHIRE. — A large number of fishing-boats belonging to Gourdon went off to fish on the morning of the 15th April, but had to return on account of the E.S.E. gale which came on...
A Raft (1)
FEBRUARY 11TH. - PLYMOUTH, DEVON.
The Belgian steamer Persier, of Antwerp, had been sunk by enemy action four miles north of the Eddystone, but the life-boat was re-called by wireless by the naval authorities. In the early...