LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Gardens of Sheffield Park
FOR many years before the war the famous gardens of Sheffield Park, in Sussex, were opened to the public and the entrance money given to charity.
In 1949, for the first time since the war, they were again opened, for five...
Category: Donations
Dalton and Waterloo Branch
Waterloo station, of a sort. Dalton and Waterloo branch, newly formed, took advantage of the fact that one of their members. Mr M.
Hollyhead, is secretarv of the Huddersfie/d Society of Model Engineers. Last summer, in the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
83 Years of Gifts.
The Institution has received his annual subscription from a subscriber who has contributed to it since his father died 25 years ago. The father, in turn, had contributed since his father died in 1881, and the books of the Insti-- tution show...
Category: Articles
Front Cover
Sennen Cove's Mersey class The Four Boys catches the evening sunlight as she heads away from the the Cornish coast on exercise. - View image in PDF
Photo by Rick Tomlinson. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
(Above) the First 33Ft Brede Lifeboat
(Above) The first 33ft Brede lifeboat to go to station, Ann Ritchie, is demonstrated to the principal guests after her naming ceremony.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Threepenny Bits for Fifty Years
THE Institution has received a gift of 60 threepenny bits from a lady in Jarrow. She writes that she has been collecting threepenny-bits for 50 years, all of which she has sent to the Institution or put in life-boat collecting...
Category: Donations
Severe Weather Hits Yacht
Blyth's all-weather lifeboat, one of the victims of the hoax call on the previous page, is pictured towing a yacht to safety on 17 October last year after she had fallen foul of suddenly deteriorating weather.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Norwegian S.S. Royal and the British S.S. Yewdale
MARCH 5TH. - HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM.
Two laden steamers, the Norwegian S.S. Royal and the British S.S. Yewdale, were lying off Hartlepool in a very rough sea, with a strong easterly wind blowing, and heavy snow storms, and the...
Kylin
Wells, Norfolk - On ifth September, 1966, the Wells life-boat Ernest Tom Neathercoat rescued a man and his dog from the yacht Kylin. A full account of this service, for which a special award was made to the coxswain and crew, appears on page...
A Motor Boat (3)
The Mumbles, Glamorganshire.—8th November, 1938. A fishing party in a motor boat had burned flares when their engine failed, but they managed to get ashore without help.—Rewards, £14 17s..