LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Collapsible Life-Boat
IN No. 10 of this Journal we described and eulogized this, as we believe, invaluable boat, invented by the Rev. E. L. BERTHON, of Fareham, and in our 23rd Number we stated that we should not cease to draw the attention of our readers to its...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat As Ambulance
Shortly before 10 o'clock in the evening of 18th April last, just as the s.s. Clanwood, of Sunderland, was leaving Hartlepool for Ghent, with a cargo of coal, a gas explosion occurred on board.
The weather was fine with...
Category: Articles
John and Naomi Beattie the Last of Aberystwyth's Five Pulling and Sailing Lifeboats on Her Way Along the Town Front Drawn By Willing Helpers She Was on Station Fr
John and Naomi Beattie, the last of Aberystwyth's five pulling and sailing lifeboats, on her way along the town front, drawn by willing helpers. She was on station from 1906 to 1932.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Minesweeper H.M.S. Wave
St. Ives, Cornwall.—At 5.30 on the morning of the 30th of September, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that H.M.S. Wave, a minesweeper, was driving ashore at Porthminster beach, St. Ives Bay, and that the coastguard shore life-saving team had...
News from the Branches. 1st October to 31st December, 1938
Greater London.
Film premiere attended by H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent at the Odeon Theatre, Leicester Square. (A full account appeared in the last issue of The Life-boat.) BATTERSEA.—The Rev. P. H. Jones, C.B.E., R.N....
Category: Branches
The BelgianYacht Nan Shan
At 5.30 p.m. on nth August, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Belgian yacht Nan Shan had been taken in tow by the coaster Windsor Queen. The yacht's crew of three were on board the coaster and she requested...
Padstow
PADSTOW, CORNWALL On the 23rd November, 1944, the Padstow life-boat rescued seven of the crew of the S.S. Sjofna, of Norway., SECOND MOTOR MECHANIC WILLIAM ORCHARD, acting as coxswain, was awarded the silver medal.
Also...
Category: Medals
The Whitburn Fishing Boats
On the 5th January, the Whitburn fishing-boats were caught in a gale, and had to leave their lines and run for the shore, which, with some difficulty, all of them but one succeeded in reaching. The crew of that boat had become utterly...
The Life-Boats of the United Kingdom
LII. PLYMOUTH.—The Clemency, 34 feet by 7 feet 9 inches, 10 oars.
ALTHOUGH the history of Plymouth is intimately connected with the exploits of the renowned and adventurous sailors of the Elizabethan era, it does not seem...
Category: Articles
The Bull Lightvessel
Humber, Yorkshire. At 4.30 on the morning of the 8th of April, 1958, the Spurn Point coastguard told the cox- swain superintendent that a member of the crew of the Bull lightvessel had died during the night and asked if the life- boat would...