LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Honorary Workers of the Institution. No. 10.—Miss Letitia French, Honorary Secretary of the Palling Life-Boat Station
OF the many hundreds of honorary workers for the Life-boat Cause, those on whom the chief burden and respon- sibility fall are the Honorary Secretaries of the Life-boat Stations. It is a responsibility resting on them the whole time, from...
Category: Articles
Remarkable Aerial Photograph of the Motor Vessel Nofsiporoi Being Pounded By Heavy Seas on 2Nd December 1966 When Two Gold Medals Awarded to Members
of the Institution for their bravery that day in going to her aid. The Nofsiporoi was at times rolling up to 35 either vertical with her forefoot, bilge keels and propeller in turn showing well clear of the water.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Life-Boat
The following drawings show the general outline and principal fittings of a 34 feet by 7£ feet self-righting boat. Figure 1 gives the profile or broadside view, the shaded part showing that devoted to the air-cases, which give extra...
Category: Articles
Bolham and the Examination Vessel St. Silio
NOVEMBER 2ND. - NEW BRIGHTON. CHESHIRE. At 3.30 P.M. a message was received that a vessel near the wreck of the Pegu, on the revetment, needed help. A S.W. gale was blowing, with a moderate sea. At 3.59 P.M. the No. 1 motor life-boat William...
Coxswain E. Matthews, of the Lizard, Cornwall
Coxswain Edwin Matthews, of the Lizard, has died at the age of eighty- seven. He became second coxswain in 1867, and coxswain in 1876, retiring in 1900 after thirty-three years as an officer ot the life-boat. During that time the station...
Category: Obituaries
Pangbourne Branch Is Affiliated to Weymouth Lifeboat Station and a Framed Colour Photograph of the 54' Arun Tony Vandervell Presented By Weymouth Crew Was Unveile
Pangbourne branch is affiliated to Weymouth lifeboat station, and a framed colour photograph of the 54' Arun Tony Vandervell, presented by Weymouth crew, was unveiled at the Swan Inn, Pangbourne, on December 8 by Chantal d'Orthez,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The James H. Price, of Savannah
AUGUST 28TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 6.30 in the evening, a steamer was seen to be in danger of running ashore and the life-boat coxswain put out in a shore boat to investigate.
A strong south-westerly breeze was blowing and the...
Singing for the Life-Boats
THE following account of how visitors from Bolton contributed to the funds of the Fleetwood Branch, appeared in the Bolton Journal and Guardian on 12th July.
" A number of Boltonians on holiday at Fleetwood last week...
Category: Donations
First Service of Aberdeen's New Lifeboat the 54' Arun Bp Forties on July 28 Was to Peterhead Fishing Boat Westerdale Which Reported Flooding In Her Engine Room Bp
. . . First service of Aberdeen's new lifeboat, the 54' Arun BP Forties, on July 28, was to Peterhead fishing boat Westerdale, which reported flooding in her engine room. BP Forties reached Westerdale, 38 miles offshore east of... - View image in PDF
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The S.S. Rosso, of Stockholm (3)
Montrose, and Broughty Ferry, Angus, Eyemouth, Berwickshire, and Gourdon,Kincardineshire.—At 4.52 in the after- noon of the 7th of March, 1952, the S.S. Rosso, of Stockholm, bound for Sweden from Methie, wirelessed that she was leaking...