LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Aeroplane (22)
SEPT. 9TH. - MARGATE, KENT, AND SOUTHEND-ON-SEA, ESSEX. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea off Leysdown. The Margate life-boat was launched just after eleven at night in a thick fog and reached Leysdown two hours and twenty...
Services by Shore-Boats (7)
TORBAY, DEVON. At about 6 P.M. on the 12th June, 1939, a sailing dinghy capsized in Fishcombe Bay. The weather was fine with a N.W. breeze and an almost smooth sea.
The crew of three were seen clinging to the keel. The call...
Category: Services
News from the Branches. 1st November, 1936 to 31st January, 1937
Greater London.
BARNEHURST.—Mrs. Pickering ap- pointed honorary secretary.
BEDDINGTON, WALLINGTON AND CARSHALTON.—Lantern lecture to the Women's Citizens Association by the dis- trict organising...
Category: Branches
Duke of Northumberland's Life-Boat Essay Competition, 1931
THE Duke of Northumberland's Life- boat Essay Competition, was held this year for the eleventh time. As in the previous year, the Institution has pre- sented eight Challenge Shields and 280 individual awards, that is to say, a Challenge...
Category: Articles
To Residents on the Coast
It is anticipated that not the least inte- resting and instructive page of our Journal will be that which is devoted to Corres- pondence. Knowledge gained by expe- rience and personal observation is always valuable, and especially is it so...
Category: Articles
Trent Named at Sunderland
Saturday 30 August saw one of the hottest days of the month for the naming ceremony of Sunderland's new Trent class lifeboat, Macquarie (shown right).
Sunderland station branch chairman, Mr G. Snowball, opened... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
WORTHING.—The Life-boat at this j station has recently been replaced by a new and rather larger self-righting boat of the latest type, 35 feet long, 8i feet : wide, and rowing 10 oars double banked ; she has one drop keel and two water...
Category: Articles
Rescue In Force 10 Gale
AT 8.28 on the evening of 16th October, 1967, the coastguard told the acting honorary secretary of the Clacton-on-Sea life-boat station, Mr. C. A. Perry, that a red flare had been sighted at the entrance to the River Blackwater. The maroons...
Category: Services
Restless Wave
Arbroath, Angus.—On the morning of the 2nd June, 1938, the local fishing bDat Restless Wave, returning t'o harbour, missed the tide, and lay off the harbour bar to wait for sufficient water to enable her to enter. The wind rose, making...
Second International Life-Boat Conference
By George F. Shee, M.A., Secretary of the Institution.
IN February, 1823, Colonel Sir William Hillary, soldier, author, philanthropist and greatest of Life-boat men, issued his appeal to the nation, advocating the formation...
Category: Meetings