LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Letter of Appreciation
THE Committee of Management has decided that a letter of appreciation should be sent to Coxswain John Bassett of Eastbourne for his part in the service by the Eastbourne life-boat when the trawler British Aviator and the motor vessel...
Category: Committee
Mary Roe, of Quebec
During a strong wind from N.W., on the 17th June, the ship Mary Roe, of Quebec, struck on the Cefn Sidan Sands, about seven miles from this place. As soon as in- formation of the disaster was received, the City of Manchester life-boat was...
Gratitude of Airmen.
Many of the launches of life-boats have been to the help of airmen.
When the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston life-boat had been out to the rescue of a Hurricane fighter which had come down in the sea, the pilot's squadron...
Category: Articles
The Point of No Return for Mary Cook Wife of sheerness Honorary Medical Adviser the Returns of Her Daring First Time Parachute Jump Were Considerable However As She Raised £320 for the Lifeb
The point of no return for Mary Cook, wife ofSheerness honorary medical adviser. The returns of her daring first time parachute jump were considerable, however, as she raised £320 for the lifeboat station in sponsorship.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Guide of Dunkirk.
The Girl Guides of the Empire have given the Institution £5,000 to build a motor life-boat. This is part of £50,000 which they contributed among themselves in Empire Week for national causes. It will provide a life-boat which was...
Category: Articles
An Aeroplane (7)
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—9th July, 1939. An aeroplane had come down in the sea off Milford-on-Sea but no trace of her could be found. She is believed to have sunk with her pilot.—Rewards, £3 18s..
William, of Liverpool
On the 24th July, at 8 P.M., a flat was seen to drive into broken water on the Barnard Wharf Sand, off Fleetwood. The Fleetwood life-boat proceeded at once to her aid ; she proved to be the William, of Liverpool, coal...
Venus of Preston
The schooner Venus, of Preston, whilst entering the port on the 20th October, late on the tide, during a strong westerly wind, struck on the Horse Bank, on which a good deal of sea was then running. The Life-boat Wakefield was then taken out...
Sapphire, of Glasgow (1)
Newhaven, and Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—Early in the morning of the 2nd December, 1937, the motor vessel Sapphire, of Glasgow, bound for Ghent, had trouble with her engine when some miles off the coast between Newhaven and Shoreham. The...
Baron of Vigo
Courtmacsherry Harbour, Co. Cork.— 24th June, 1938. The Spanish steam trawler Baron of Vigo had run ashore near the Old Head of Kinsale, but got help from another trawler.—Rewards, £11 8s..