LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Letters
Twin pedal power For Northfleet Carnival I built a lifeboat round my bicycle and here is a photograph of 'yours truly' at the helm (or should I say handlebars?) while pedalling along in the carnival on July 1. We had a collection...
Category: Correspondence
South-Eastern District Conference
A CONFERENCE of Honorary Secretaries and other Life-boat workers in th South-Eastern District — Bedfordshire Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire Essex, Hertfordshire, Huntingdonshire Kent, Norfolk, Suffolk, Surrey anc Sussex—was held...
Category: Committee
Lochgoil
OCT. 6TH. - THE MUMBLES, GLAMORGANSHIRE. At 6 P.M. the coastguard informed the life-boat station that the motor vessel Lochgoil, of London, had been sunk by enemy action five miles S. by W. of the Scarweather Lightship. She was a steamer of...
Spitfire
Plymouth, Devon.—At 1 A.M. on the 4th August it was reported that a motor boat, the Spitfire, with seven people on board, had put out during the previous afternoon and had not been heard of since. There was a dense fog, which made an...
Milborne
Holyhead, Anglesey.—At 4.45 on the morning of the 20th of March, 1953, the coastguard rang up to say that awireless distress message had been intercepted from the motor vessel Milborne, of Poole, stating that she had gone ashore eight miles...
Named at Port Isaac
James Leeds with his son Nick and Crew Member Paul Worden. - View image in PDF
Photo © Neil Lindsay (01208) 813553. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Caterpillar Tractor for Launching Life-Boats. By Captain Howard F. J. Rowley, C.B.E., R.N., Chief Inspector of Life-Boats
THE great difficulty in the way of prompt Life-boat launches on flat beaches is the difficulty of the horses.
It is becoming increasingly hard to get the use of horses and the men to manage them, and they have frequently to...
Category: Articles
Tijl Uilenspiegel (3)
Six lifeboats in search for missing Belgian trawler The new Tyne class lifeboat at Douglas, Isle of Man, had a testing time during her first service, in a search for a missing Belgian trawler which lasted for 11 hours in Force 7 winds and...
Medallists at Annual Meeting
Back: Coxswain Allchorn, Coxswain Parkinson Front: Coxswain Lethbridge, Robert Cann, Acting Coxswain Carey. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Two Tragedies of Collecting Boxes
BOTH tragedies occurred in Hertford- shire. The first was on life-boat day in St. Albans. A little girl had been sent out by her mother to do some shopping. She had a florin ready in her hand. At the corner of the road she met a life-boat...
Category: Donations