LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Life-Boat Christmas Cards and Calendars
In the last number of THE LIFE-BOAT (pages 160-161) reference was made to the Institution's Christmas cards and calendars. A colour leaflet showing the full range is enclosed with this issue, together with an order form. It is hoped that...
Category: Advertisement
Wreck and Rescue In the Bristol Channel
Wreck and Rescue in the Bristol Channel by Grahame Farr (D. Bradford Barton Ltd., Truro, 305.) tells in the first of two volumes the story of the English life- boats in those waters.
Of the life-boat stations detailed in...
Category: Articles
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
NEW ROMNEY, KENT ; PORTHLEVEN, CORN- WALL ; SWANSEA, WALES ; ARBROATH and PORTPATRICK, SCOTLAND.—The Life-boats placed on these Stations many years since have recently been superseded by new boats furnished by the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT...
Category: Articles
A Fishing Boat and a Steamer
Torbay (Devon).
Between the 5th and the 7th December, with a strong gale blowing the whole time and a very heavy sea, the Torbay Motor Life-boat was out on service four times. She was out _for two hours on the 5th, rescuing...
"The Life-Boat and Its Story."
WE have received a copy of " The Life- Boat and Its Story," by Noel T. Methley (Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd., price 7s. &d.) too late for review in this issue of the Life-boat Journal. We can, therefore, at the present moment,...
Category: Articles
Georgia and the S.S. St. Helena
Ramsgate, Kent.—At eight o'clock on the morning of the 8th of May, 1956, the Deal coastguard telephoned to say that the Panamanian tanker Georgia had been in collision with the S.S. St.
Helena in fog 23 miles...
Eddy and Sid Present the Quids
Funnymen Little and Large presented a cheque for £1,100 to Blackpool lifeboat crew 24 August 1996. The money was raised from an angling competition organised by Blackpool Boat Anglers at their festival on the 17 and 18 of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Thetis, James, Jane Eliza and Sarah Jane
PORTHDINLLAEN.—A sudden gale of wind sprang up at about 4 P.M. on the 7th August, accompanied by a heavy cross sea, and four schooners were observed with signals of distress flying.
The George Moore Life-boat was...
Bolham and the Examination Vessel St. Silio
NOVEMBER 2ND. - NEW BRIGHTON. CHESHIRE. At 3.30 P.M. a message was received that a vessel near the wreck of the Pegu, on the revetment, needed help. A S.W. gale was blowing, with a moderate sea. At 3.59 P.M. the No. 1 motor life-boat William...
Galvanised Steel Section Columns and Bracing Members Were Bolted Together on the Beach and Then (Right) Lifted Into Place By Crane at Low Water
Galvanised steel section columns and bracing members were bolted together on the beach and then (right) lifted into place by crane at low water.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs