LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Notes of the Quarter
That the life-boat service is busier every year is now becoming a clearly established fact, and it received further confirmation in the first six months of the present year. In 1965 an all-time record for launches was established, yet there...
Category: Articles
The Women of Cresswell
The women of Cresswell, Northumberland, help with the recovery of the lifeboat Martha.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
PAKEFIELD.—The Life-boat Two Sis- ters, Mary and Hannah, was launched at 1.30 A.M. on the 9th Jan. last, and pro- ceeded to the assistance of the brigantine Kelpie, of South Shields, bound from Hartlepool for Lowestoft with a cargo of coal,...
Category: Services
The Edam, of Rotterdam
NOVEMBER 18TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 4.10 in the afternoon a steamer had been seen to go ashore on the Goodwin Sands. A moderate north-east wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. The motor life-boat Charles Dibdin (Civil Service No. 2) was...
Reliance, of London
On the night of the 5th January, the barque Reliance, of London, was driven on shore in a violent snow- storm, near Walmer Castle, on the coast of Kent. The Walmer life-boat was qxrickly manned and proceeded to the rescue of her crew of 15...
Freeman of the City:
Freeman of the City: Coxswain ten Patten of Newhaven (centre) was admitted to the Freedom of the City of London at a ceremony at the Guildhall, London, on December 17. He was nominated by Leonard Fernee (I), a freeman and liveryman of the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
F.L.B., of Blyth
Skegness, Lincolnshire.—On the afternoon of the 19th June the coastguard reported that a small yacht was aground on the Outer Knock, about three miles S. by W. of the pier, but was not in immediate danger. Later on a message was received...
The Life-Boat Services of the World: Sweden
By Captain STENISBERG, Secretary of the Svenska Sällskabet För Räddning Af Skeppsbrutne...
Category: Articles
The Fishwives of Cullercoats
THE fishwives of Cullercoats this year collected £207 at the quarterly road exercise and launch of the life-boat, in spite of bad weather. This is £68 more than in 1935 and the record collection. The fishwives have now been...
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A Gift of Bass
Two anglers fishing for four days in the Solent, caught 550 bass, weighing about 10 cwts. They sold one day's catch for the benefit of the Life-boat Service..
Category: Donations