LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
J H Barrow
Shortly before 1 A.M. on the 6th March, it was reported that a vessel about a mile to the north of the harbour was making signals of distress. There was a strong S.S.E. gale at the time and the sea was very heavy. With great promptness the...
Guiding Star
The schooner Guiding Star, of Runcorn, while bound to Fisherow with a cargo of salt, became windbound when at anchor in Scrabster Roads, and on the 12th November a whole N.N.E. gale sprang up. The vessel, being in an ex- posed position,...
Three Aeroplanes
AUGUST 21ST. - ABERYSTWYTH , CARDIGANSHIRE. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but nothing was found. While the life-boat was searching, another aeroplane was reported in the sea, and a third in distress, and a motor boat was...
Chief Organising Secretary
MR. JOHN TERRY, the district organ- ising secretary for London, has been appointed chief organising secretary of the Institution and personal assis- tant to the secretary, a new post which replaces the post of...
Category: Committee
Tenby's Tyne Class Lifeboat Rfa Sir Galahad Pictured With Her Royal Fleet Auxiliary Namesake Sir Galahad the Lifeboat Is Named to Commemorate the Rfa Ship L
Tenby's Tyne class lifeboat RFA Sir Galahad, pictured with her Royal Fleet Auxiliary namesake Sir Galahad. The lifeboat is named to commemorate the RFA ship lost during the Falklands conflict (Photo Gareth Davies). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Newsbuoy's Inflatable Y Boat Takes a Lifeboat Crew Member Off the Replica Longboat Just Before Beginning the Long Tow Back to Stromness.
Newsbuoy's inflatable Y boat takes a lifeboat crew member off the replica longboat just before beginning the long tow back to Stromness.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Chester
The sloop Chester- field, of Lynn, whilst bound to Hull, laden with gravel, stranded on the Inner Sinks on the 9th September.
Coxswain Cross immediately assembled his crew and proceeded to the vessel in the boarding...
A Long Wade Through a Winter Sea
An unusual rescue by a Margate life-boatman (See page 415). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Rubber Boat (2)
AUGUST 27TH. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.
An aeroplane had come down in the sea seventeen miles north of Sheringham, and the crew of four had taken to their rubber boat, but they were picked up by a trawler.
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Mr. G. S. Woodman, of Hythe
Mr. G. S. Woodman, of Hythe, who died on 1st June, at the age of forty-six, had been joint honorary secretary of the Hythe life-boat station for three years, and in that short time had made him- self of great value to the station, in which...
Category: Obituaries