LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Five Years and Six Months of War
Since the war began our life-boats have rescued 6,272 lives. That is more lives rescued in five years and six months of war than in the last seventeen years of peace..
Category: Articles
524 and The S.S. Capito (1)
OCTOBER 11TH. - APPLEDORE, CLOVELLY, AND ILFRACOMBE, DEVON. At 3.50 in the afternoon the naval officer-incharge at Appledore asked the life-boat to be in readiness to launch. A south-west gale was blowing, with a very rough sea, and...
The American Steamer Chrysanthy Star and Energetic
Cadgwith, and Penlee, Cornwall and St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly.—At 11.5 on the night of the 25th of June, 1948, during a thick fog, the Cadgwith coast- guard telephoned the Cadgwith life- boat station that the American steamer Chrysanthy...
The S.S. Middlesbro’ and the S.S. Phaeasian
DEC. 9TH. - FLAMBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE.
At 8.15 P.M. a message was received that distress signals had been seen E.N.E. of the life-boat station. A strong S. wind was blowing, and there was a moderate ground swell. At 9 P.M. the...
The Princess Elizabeth and Jersey Life-Boatmen
On her visit to Jersey in June, 1949.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Year's Halfpennies and Two Years' Farthings
FOR the fifth year running the Institution has received a gift of a year's collection of halfpennies. It numbered 494, or £1 Os. 7d.
A gift of 500 farthings, or 10s. 5d., which took two years to collect, has been...
Category: Donations