LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Life-boatmen in the Empire Pageant
ON Empire Day, 24th May last, twenty Life-boatmen took part in the Empire Day Festival and Procession of the Empire organised by the Daily Express in Hyde Park. The procession was led by the massed bands of H.M. Brigade of Guards, and an...
Category: Articles
Goosander and Barbar
Swanage, Dorset. At 5.57 on the evening of the 17th of April, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Anvil Point lighthouse keeper had seen a yacht with a dinghy astern drifting to the westward, with the yacht's...
Sophia, of Hull
On the 6th August the Life-boat Leicester, stationed at this place, rendered valuable assistance to the smack Sophia, of Hull, laden with coal, which ves- sel, while on a voyage from the Hnmber to London, got on the North Sand off Gor-...
Brookes & Gatehouse Ltd
Wherever you sail you'll find Brookes & Gatehouse instruments A full complement of Brookes and Gatehouse units comprises: HERON D.F. aerial. HOMER receiver and short-wave converter. HECTA echo sounder. HARRIER combined log and...
Category: Advertisement
Leo's Lifeboat Lyrics
Newbiggin fundraisers had a busy time last summer - just days after moving back into their refurbished boathouse the Annual Harbour Day was held and, together with proceeds from lifeboat week, over £3,000 was raised.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Margaret
Scarborough, Yorkshire.—During the afternoon of the 12th March the weather got very bad, and several of the local boats at sea returned to harbour. One boat, the Margaret, was still to come, and the motor life-boat Herbert Joy II was...
Fairway
Fleetwood, Lancashire. — At seven o'clock on the evening of the 9th of September, 1953, a local trawler company reported that the steam trawler Fairway, of Hull, had an injured man on board who was in urgent need of medical attention.<...
Spindrift
CATAMARAN WITH DECKS AWASH SAVED New Brighton, Cheshire. At nine o'clock on the evening of Friday the 16th of August, 1963, the Formby coastguard told the honorary secretary that a catamaran, Spindrift, appeared to be in trouble off...
Liz
ENGINE FAILURE Skegness, Lincolnshire. At 9.15 p.m.
on 5th June, 1965, the coastguard notified the honorary secretary that a distress signal had been observed half-a-mile off shore at Mablethorpe. At 9.45 the lifeboat...
A Launch
Mallaig, Inverness-shire. At 1.10 on the afternoon of the 17th of December, 1959. the honorary secretary was in- formed that a launch, which had left Knoydart at eleven o'clock for Mallaig, was an hour and a half overdue. The life-boat E...