LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Silver Medal Service at Torbay
EARLY in the afternoon of the 9th December, 1938, the open motor crabber, Channel Pride, of Dartmouth, was overtaken by a sudden gale off Coombe Point, Dartmouth. She had two men on board. Her skipper decided to return at once, but the...
Category: Services
It Was a Summer of Fairs Tombola Break for (I to R) Mr and Mrs W J Shufflebottom Who Opened Their Home and Garden at Hanchurch for Stoke-On-Trent Ladies' Guild F
was a summer of fairs . . . tombola break for (I. to r.) Mr and Mrs W. J. Shufflebottom, who opened their home and garden at Hanchurch for Stoke-on-Trent ladies' guild fair, with Miss Winifred Barratt, who opened festivities, and Mrs W... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Use of Oil at Sea. By Lieut. John P. Holditch, R.N.R.
IN April, 1883, the ship I commanded was homeward bound from Australia to Cork, for orders; we were just off New Zealand, about the worst place "for wind till you come to Cape Horn on the passage.
A heavy N.W. gale...
Category: Articles
Honorary Workers of the Institution. No. 10.—Miss Letitia French, Honorary Secretary of the Palling Life-Boat Station
OF the many hundreds of honorary workers for the Life-boat Cause, those on whom the chief burden and respon- sibility fall are the Honorary Secretaries of the Life-boat Stations. It is a responsibility resting on them the whole time, from...
Category: Articles
Blyth Lifeboatmen Try Out a Rother Lifeboat at Swanage: (Above I to R) Lt Alan Tate Divisional Inspector of Lifeboat (Ne) Assistant Mechanic John Scott Motor Mechan
Blyth lifeboatmen try out a Rother lifeboat at Swanage: (above, I. to r.) Lt Alan Tate, divisional inspector of lifeboat (NE), Assistant Mechanic John Scott, Motor Mechanic Colin Cuthbertson, and Crew Members Les Fay, George Turner, Tom Moss... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Blind Visitors Shown Round at Bridlington
Bridlington, Yorkshire, life-boat station went out of its way some weeks ago to please a group of blind children.
Mr. Arthur W. Dick, honorary secretary, said a letter asking for this facility from the Tapton Mount School,...
Category: Articles
Fishing Smack No. M.N.41
DISTRESS SIGNAL At 8.33 a.m. on yth June, 1964, the coastguard told the coxswain that a fishing vessel lying at anchor half a mile offshore appeared to be flying a distress signal. At 8.50, in moderate sea and wind conditions, with the wind...
'Coxswain Edward G. Williams . . . Did His Best . . . to Edge Her Out So That I Could Obtain Some Seascapes. But It Was Just Choppy Enough to Make Things Difficult . . .'
Coxswain Edward G. - View image in PDF
Williams ... did his best... to edge her out so that I could obtain some seascapes. But it was just choppy enough to make things difficult. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Co-operative Funeralcare
Co-operative Funeralcare ff :.: — • Funeral Pre-Payment Plan from Co-operative Funeralcare It's always a good idea to plan ahead and with a Funeral Pre-Payment Plan from Co-operative Funeralcare, you can do just that. There are three...
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Strong to save
Grace Darling was a woman of courage and determination, and it was those same characteristics – now woven into the fabric of the RNLI – that encouraged Lena Howells to become the first female member of Angle Lifeboat Station in 2007, at the...
Category: Articles