LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Battered to Pieces on the Sands
Battered To Pieces on the Sands. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
For Those In Peril on the Sea
FOR THOSE IN PERIL ON THE SEA. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Bottom Right: Fred Walkington on Duty
Bottom Right: Fred Walkington On Duty. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Egremont
MARGATE.—On the evening of the 18th March the coastguards reported that a vessel off the Margate Sandhead buoy had just lost her foremast and gear, bnt was not showing any signal for assistance.
A strong gale was then...
The Motor Drifter Bezaleel
At 1 A.M. on the 1st November, a telephone message was received from the - Coastguard that a fishing vessel was making distress signals N.N.E. of the Look- out, close inshore. A strong W.N.W.
breeze was blowing with a heavy...
The Port Erin Experiment
THE first life-boat to be fitted with diesel engines was completed in 1936, and since 1952 diesel engines have been installed in all new life-boats. Never- theless, there are still an appreciable number of life-boats in the fleet which have...
Category: Articles
The Royal Life-Boat Matinee
THE third annual Royal Life-boat Matinee organised by the Central London Women's Committee of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild was held at the Savoy Theatre (lent by Mr. Rupert D'Oyly Carte) on 5th December, in the presence of H.R.H....
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat Transporting-Carriage
The Life-boat transporting-carriage is a very important auxiliary to the boat.
Every Life-boat, except a few of the larger size, is provided with a carriage, on -which she is kept in the boat-house ready for immediate...
Category: Articles
Irish Leader
On the evening of the 23rd April the coast watcher at Curracloe telephoned that a boat, about one mile south of Curracloe, was flying distress signals. A westerly gale was blowing, a very heavy sea was running, and it was raining. The motor...