LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Balance Sheet.—31st December, 1867
Dr. BALANCE SHEET.—31st December, 1867. Or.
&. s. d. £. s. d.
To Creditors for Lifeboats, Life-boat Carriages, Lease of the House of the Institution, Boat-houses, &c. . . . 5,151 13 0 To...
Category: Accounts
For Those In Peril on the High Street
A new' mascot' for the Eastbourne branch was unveiled when lifeboatmen boarded a completely different form of transport.
Eastbourne Buses has boosted publicity for the local lifeboat by having one of its buses... - View image in PDF
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A Launch (1)
On trials...
but on service Baltic Exchange II, a brand new Tyne carrying out engine trials before going on station at Salcombe, came to the aid of Ramsgate's harbourmaster on Saturday 30 July.
The...
A Hard Shoulder to Lean On.
A hard shoulder to lean on.
Motorists on the M25 had something to distract them from the inevitable traffic jams in July when the ex- Courtmacsherry Solent class lifeboat R.
Hope Roberts made a passage to... - View image in PDF
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Fishing Boats (1)
On the 21st April the No. 1 Life-boat Augusta was launched at 11.45 A.M., some of the fishing-boats having been overtaken by a strong gale from the S.S.E., a heavy sea breaking on the bar ; the weather was very thick and rain was falling at...
Young Sam
At about noon on the 7th December the coastguard re- ported that the Cockle Lightvessel was firing signals to indicate that a vessel was in distress. A light W.S.W. breeze was blowing, and the sea was fairly smooth, but there was a dense fog...
Mini and Daisy
Montrose, Angus.—On the morning of the 5th October the sea, which had been making with the ebb tide, rapidly became worse, and by low water was breaking right across the bar. Several of the smaller fishing boats were at sea, and as they...
Mayflower
MOTOR BOAT BROKEN DOWN Newhaven, Sussex.—At about eleven o'clock on the night of the 13th of June, 1947, the coastguard reported a boat in distress burning flares two miles south-west by west of Newhaven, and the motor life-boat John and...
Colorado
Newhaven, Sussex.—At 7.20 in the evening of the 20th of June, 1948, the coastguard reported a small vessel off Seaford Head flying distress signals, and the motor life-boat Cecil and Lilian Philpott was launched in a south- westerly breeze...
A Rowing Boat
Holyhead, Anglesey.—At 9.25 in the evening of the 21st of July, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that a small rowing boat, with three Royal Air Force cadets on board, was in difficulties about half a mile to the eastward of Salt Island Point,...