LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Aeroplane (46)
JANUARY 26TH. - WELLS, NORFOLK.
An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £22 17s..
Shore-Boat Services Rewarded By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution In 1898
Jan. 13.—Voted 22. each to the fonr sur- vivors of the crew of the Margate beachmon's surf boat Friend of aU Nations, which was capsized, with, the loss of nine of her crew while on her way to a distressed vessel on the 2nd December last...
Category: Articles
Royal Blue to the Rescue
THE following report is reproduced from Stage Coach, the magazine of General Western National, Royal Blue, Devon and Greenslades coaches.
'To be able to answer an urgent call for assistance from an organisation which is...
Category: Correspondence
Card Collecting: Some Notes on Charitable People. By a New Life-Boat Worker
I HAVE learnt several things about my fellow men and women which have interested me very much since, some months ago, I undertook always to have one of the Prince of Wales's Life-boat Collecting Cards with me wherever I went. I think...
Category: Donations
May (1)
MAY MEETING GRIMNESS, ORKNEYS. About 2 in the afternoon of the 30th January, 1940, a ship’s boat, which had got away from the S.S.
Giralda, of Leith, after she had been bombed by German aeroplanes, was seen drifting ashore...
Category: Services
Seamen and Their Employers
MANY of our readers will have learned by the newspapers that for some time past discontent has existed amongst our merchant seamen, chiefly on the ground of their being liable to imprisonment for re- fusing, after signing articles, to...
Category: Articles
Duckhams Oils Ltd.
DUCKHAMS go out to sea in a Force 8 gale Putting out to sea in a lifeboat on a dirty "winter's night in impossible conditions takes more than a high order of seamanship. It takes guts.
Men and boats are stretched...
Category: Advertisement
H.M. Trawler Sir John List
DEC. 21ST. - DONAGHADEE CO DOWN. At 8.20 P.M. the coastguard telephoned that the naval authorities had reported a vessel ashore at the South Briggs.
A light N.W. wind was blowing. There were patches of fog, and the sea was...
Bull Point Lighthouse Bristol Channel Was Opened By Captain David Tibbitts Ssc Rn Deputy Master and Chairman of Trinity House and An Ex-Officio Member of Our Com
Bull Point Lighthouse, Bristol Channel, was opened by Captain David Tibbitts, ssc RN, Deputy Master and Chairman of Trinity House and an ex-officio member of our Committee of Management.
Designed by a Trinity House team... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Focus on Dungeness
A visit to the Kentish life-boat station and its crew is described in what is hoped will become a regular series on life-boat stations by Margaret Peter.
The men of Dungeness who form the life-boat crew are proud of their...
Category: Articles