LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Trawler (1)
Fenit, Co. Kerry.—21st July, 1939.
The life-boat put out at 8.45 P.M. indense fog to the help of a trawler which was reported to have struck Sibyl Head and to be making for Blasket Sound in a sinking condition. Mr. T....
A Cabin Cruiser
BABY WENT TOO Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. At 11.20 p.m. on ist August, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a cabin cruiser which lay at anchor in Sand bay needed the life-boat's assistance.
A...
A Speed Boat
At 9.9 p.m. on igth June, 1967, news was received that a speed boat had capsized about 200 yards off the East Terrace breakwater. The life-boat Cecil and Lilian Philpott, which was on temporary duty at the station, slipped her moorings at...
A Sailing Yacht (1)
OCTOBER 26TH. - SELSEY, SUSSEX. At 2.13 in the afternoon the coastguard reported that a sailing yacht had had her top mast carried away and appeared to be anchored three miles south-east of Hayling Island. A moderate south-easterly breeze...
A Word of Farewell
WHEN one has, for fifteen years, held an office that any man must be proud and thankful to occupy, it is not easy to say good-bye. Yet the time has come for my retirement from the post of Secretary of the Institution, and I must take leave...
Category: Articles
A Rubber Collapsible Boat
OCT. 18TH. - WHITBY, AND RUNSWICK, YORKSHIRE. The coastguard reported a vessel firing signals six miles north of Whitby.
A moderate N.E. wind was blowing with a choppy sea. At 7.45 P.M. the No. 1 motor life-boat was...
Portrait of a Coxswain
Coxswain JohnW. Gerrard, of the Blackpool life-boat Maria Noble. Appointed second coxswain in 1955, Coxswain Gerrard, who became coxswain in 1965, joined the crew in 1935. Since he joined the crew, Blackpool life-boats have been launched... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Lay of the Life-Boat
GENTLEMEN all, are your glasses charged? for I've a toast for the winter weather.
Answer it, then, with a three times three; voice and heart, if you please, together.
It is not a sorrowful theme I...
Category: Poetry
A Boat (1)
Four lifeboats in search for missing anglers Lifeboats from Whitstable, Margate, Sheerness and Walton and Frinton were involved in a massive search for a man and his 12-year-old son after they failed to return in their 14ft boat following a...
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