LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
White Heather II and Welcome Home
ON the morning of 17th February last a number of fishing boats from Sheringham, on the coast of Norfolk, went out after whelks. Before they returned a heavy sea had got up, and the boats were in danger. A message was sent for the Motor...
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
To WILLIAM G. SANDERS, on his retirement, after serving for 36J years as Coxswain of the Torbay Life-boat, a Coxswain's Certi- ficate of Service, and a Pension.
To THOMAS HAYES, on his retirement, after serving for 19 J...
Category: Awards
Star of Hope, Freda and Minnie
On the morning of the 1st May the local motor fishing cobles put out to haul crab pots. A moderate N. wind was blowing, with a considerable ground swell, and at 10.30 A.M. with the tide ebbing the sea broke heavily across the bay, making the...
Life-Boat Calendar and Christmas Card
THE stock of life-boat Christmas cards, with a coloured reproduction of a life- boat returning from the rescue, of which particulars were given in the last number of The Life-boat, is now exhausted. The life-boat calendar for 1936, with...
Category: Advertisement
Life-Boatman and Coastguard In Support
The new coat oi arms of Ramsgate, where the life-boat station has rescued 1,365 lives'since 1865. - View image in PDF
(Reproduced by courtesy of the Borough of Ramsgate.). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Life-Boat Christmas Card and Calendar
THE life-boat Christmas card and calendar, with a reproduction in colour of the service of the Ballycotton motor life-boat to the Daunt Rock lightship, of which particulars were given in the last issue of The Life-boat, can still be obtained...
Category: Advertisement
Venus, Gallilee, Success, Pilot Me and Provider
Whitby, Yorkshire.—On the morning of the 15th March, 1939, five Whitby fishing vessels put to sea at 5 A.M. A strong N.N.E. wind was blowing, with a heavy broken sea. The sea increased and at 10 A.M. the No. 1 motor life-boat Mary Ann...
The Southport and St. Anne's Disaster
DECEMBER 9th of last year was the fiftieth anniversary of the great disaster on the Lancashire coast when the life-boats at Southport and St. Anne's were both capsized, with the loss of 27 lives, in an attempt to rescue the crew of the...
Category: Articles
A Gallant Girl and Four Gallant Boys
ONE of the features of the many boating accidents in the summer of 1937 was the gallantry of boys and girls. The Institution awarded five inscribed wrist-watches, to a girl and four boys for saving, or attempting to save, life. Their ages...
Category: Articles
William Cale and Motor Fishing Boat Delight
Stornoway, Outer Hebrides.—At six o'clock on the morning of the 17th of December, 1952, the coastguard tele- phoned that a message had been received from the trawler William Cale, of London, that her trawl gear had fouled her propeller...