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The Last of the Sailing Life-Boats

Date: April 1949

Volume: 32

Issue: 349

As the last of the sailing life-boats was replaced by a motor life-boat on the 12th of December, 1948, the term motor lifeboat will no longer be used. " Life-boat" will mean "motor life-boat." The one boat remaining which...

Category: Inaugurations

None (1)

Date: Spring 2001

Volume: 58

Issue: 556

Saved by her dog's eyes When 14-year-old Catherine Sharman and her dog, Jet, became trapped on rocks by the tide, it proved difficult just to find her. Nightfall, driving rain, rough seas and strengthening winds all posed a challenge to...

Carriad

Date: Autumn 1986

Volume: 50

Issue: 498

Night escort ANGLE LIFEBOAT, THE 46ft 9in WATSON CLASS, Richard Vernon and Mary Garforth of Leeds, launched on service at2148 on the evening of Saturday May 17, 1986, after a yacht had been reported to be suffering engine problems in gale...

Lady Gay

Date: December 1953

Volume: 33

Issue: 366

Falmouth, Cornwall.—At 8.45 on the evening of the 4th of September, 1953, H.M. Customs telephoned to say that a boat was ashore near St. Anthony Lighthouse. The life-boat Hearts of Oak, on temporary duty at the station, put to sea at nine...

Pennies May Not Rain from Heaven But Pound Notes Floated Down Just Outside Filey With a Little Help from a Helicopter from 665 Army Helicopter Squadron from Topclif

Date: Summer 1978

Volume: 46

Issue: 465

Pennies may not rain from heaven but pound notes floated down just outside Filey, with a little help from a helicopter from 665 Army Helicopter Squadron from Topcliffe, North Yorkshire. Staff at the Topcliffe base had done a 44-mile... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management

Date: November 1909

Volume: 20

Issue: 234

THURSDAY, 17th June, 1909.

Colonel FitzRoY CLAYTON, V.P., in the Chair.

Reported that the Chairman and Deputy Chairman of the Institution, with the Secre- tary and the Chief Inspector, had visited...

Category: Committee

Lifeboat Classified

Date: Autumn 1987

Volume: 50

Issue: 502

LIFEBOAT CLASSIFIED MADE TO MEASURE X X HAND CUT SHIRTS and BLOUSES From quality fabrics: Sea Island cottons, silks, polycottons, wool/cotton mixtures, cotton oxfords, Viyella, etc.

Patterns and details from A. GARSTANG&...

Category: Advertisement

November

Date: 1945

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1945

Launches 28 Lives rescued None

NOVEMBER 1ST. - WEYMOUTH, DORSET.

At 7.21 in the evening, the Wyke Regis coastguard reported a vessel aground on Shambles Bank. She was the Swedish tanker Ariston, of...

Category: Services

Barrow to Poole: Log By Alec Moore Assistant Mechanic of Barrow Lifeboat Station

Date: Summer 1983

Volume: 48

Issue: 485

SEPTEMBER 1982 Extracts from the log of Acting Motor Mechanic ALEC MOORE of the delivery trip of the 46ft 9in Watson lifeboat Herbert Leigh at the end of her time as a station boat; she is now in the relief fleet. For the voyage the other...

Category: Articles

Buttons After All!

Date: February 1931

Volume: 28

Issue: 305

IN the report of Life-boat Day in Greater London, in the last issue of The Lifeboat, it was stated that for the first time no buttons had been found in the collecting boxes. But buttons were, after all, given for the help of the Service—but...

Category: Articles