LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
"The Sea-Microcosm."
Magazine to be sold on behalf of the Institution.
Dorothy Una Katclifie, F.R.A.S., F.R.G.S., has very kindly decided to devote the gross profits of the current number of the literary and artistic magazine, The Microcosm, to...
Category: Articles
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Cox- swain Sidney Cann of Appledore, who was appointed bowman in 1922, became second coxswain in 1931 and has been coxswain since 1933. Since he became a boat's officer Appledore life-boats have been...
Category: Articles
Classification of Services By Life-Boats
CLASS Fishing boats - all types Motor vessels, steamers, barges, motor boats, etc.
Sailing yachts, sailing dinghies, sailing boats, motor cruisers and motor yachts Aircraft Small boats, canoes, rubber dinghies,...
Category: Services
Jane, of Carnarvon
.— On the 20th September information was received j here, that the smack Jane, of Carnarvon,! was riding outside the Orme's Head dis- j masted, and with signals of distress flying.
The wind was blowing strong from ...
Mary Jane, of Padstow
On the 22nd No- vember, the schooner Mary Jane, of Pad- stow, was stranded in a strong wind and heavy sea near Clay Castle, on the Irish coast. The vessel had only started from Youghal that morning, but in consequence of stress of weather...
Mr. C. B. Stoddart, of Cardiff
Mr. C. B. Stoddart, who died last December, had for sixteen years been Honorary Secretary of the Cardiff and Penarth Branch. He was a well-known and very popular figure in Cardiff, being the represei tive there of the Bowring Shipping...
Category: Obituaries
Fishing Boats (2)
GOURDOR, JOHNSHAVEN, MONTROSE AND ARBROATH. — A strong gale suddenly sprung up on the east coast of Scotland on the morning of the 6th January and the fishing fleets were compelled to return as quickly as possible to the...
The Wreck of the "Islander."
A FULL account appeared in the last issue of The Lifeboat of the wreck of the yacht Islander, with the loss of six lives, and of the gallant efforts made from the shore by several men to rescue the crew when the vacht was almost on the rocks...
Category: Articles
None (2)
Walton and Frinton, Essex; Margate, Ramsgate, and Walmer, Kent.— 27th October, 1937. During naval exercises fireworks were used by the Fleet without notice being given. They were taken for distress signals and these four motor life-boats...
Josephine II (2)
Hythe, Dover, and Folkestone, Kent.— On the night of the 13th-14th December the Hythe and Dover motor life-boats and a Folkestone fishing boat went out to the rescue of the crew of three of the motor fishing boat Josephine II, of...