LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Early History of the Sliding-Keel
IT is very difficult to ascertain with any degree of exactitude when sliding or drop-keels first came into use. In the third volume of " An History of Marine Architecture," by John Charnock, F.S.A., published in 1802, there is a...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 8th October, 1931.
Special Meeting.
Sir GODFREY BABINO, Bt., in the Chair.
Sir GODFREY BARING, Bfc., Chairman of the Committee of Management, presented to Sir GEORGE-SHEE a Gold...
Category: Committee
An Evening By the Sea
IT is a beauteous evening, calm and free; The holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration; the broad sun Is smiling down in its tranquillity; The gentleness of heaven is on the sea; Listen!—the Mighty Being is awake, And doth with...
Category: Poetry
These Men Have One of the Most Demanding Jobs In Britain' the Tenby Lifeboat Crew
These men have one of the most demanding jobs in Britain'. The Tenby lifeboat crew (above) featured in one of two RNLI promotional packs, which have proved extremely worthwhile in recruiting new members.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mrs Dorothy Parsons' Father, John Southerden (Left) Stands Guard Over the Rye Lifeboat After the Disaster - See Letter Above.
Mrs Dorothy Parsons' father, John Southerden (left) stands guard over the Rye lifeboat after the disaster - see letter above.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Margate Motor Life-Boat on Service
Rescuing the Captain and Mate of the S.S. " Treport," of London, which struck submerged wreckage at the mouth of the Thames on 19th September, and sank after being beached on the Girdler Sands. The crew had been taken off earlier... - View image in PDF
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Holyhead
HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY On the 12th February, 1943, the Holyhead life-boat rescued the crew of fortyseven of the S.S. Castilian, of London.
COXSWAIN RICHARD JONES was awarded the bronze medal.
MOTOR MECHANIC...
Category: Medals
Maggie Smith, the Sunshine and Girl Mary
Arbroath, Angus.—On the night of the 23rd-24th April the weather became bad, and soon after midnight a strong S.E. gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea and rain. Six local fishing boats were at sea. One of them, the Maggie Smith, was seen...
The Southwold Life-Boats, 1840-1916. By Ernest R. Cooper, Hon Secretary
I REGRET that for many of the earlier years the Southwold Records are but scanty, and it is with some difficulty that I have been able to extract the facts now detailed from such books and documents as have come down to me.
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Dotherel, British Defiance, Star in the East, and Hannah
SUNDERLAND.—At about 10 A.M. on the 22nd November, the fishing-boats Dotherel, British Defiance, Star in the East, and Hannah, were observed in distress about three miles S.E. of Sunderland during a strong E.S.E. wind and a rough sea. The...