LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Crew of "Joseph Et Yvonne." Taken from the Life-Boat
The Crew of "Joseph Et Yvonne' Taken From The Life-Boat. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Curlew
AN INEXPERIENCED CREW Stromness, Orkneys.—At midnight on the 15th of July, 1947, the Kirkwall coastguard telephoned that the motor boat Curlew, of Kirkwall, had left Rousay at about nine o'clock for Kirk- wall but that nothing had been...
Honorary Workers of the Institution. No. 3. Mr. J. A. Gardiner, Honorary Secretary of the Campbeltown, Southend, and Machrihanish Branch
BEFORE Mr. Gardiner became Honorary Secretary of the Campbeltown Branch, he had had an adventurous career in many parts of the world. He was the second son of Sheriff Gardiner, and began his career in the office of a big Glasgow...
Category: Articles
The Scottish Drifter Sunbeam
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk. At 7.29 on the evening of the 8th of November, 1957, the coast- guard reported that an urgent call for help had been received from the Scottish drifter Sunbeam. She had an injured man on board, who was...
Corbon, of Newcastle
Early on the morning of the 7th April, 1866, signals of distress were seen by the beachmen in the direction of the Cockle Sand. The weather was hazy, with a strong breeze blowing from E.N.E.
The Birmingham No. 2 life-boat,...
An Aeroplane (1)
Fowey, Cornwall.—17th April, 1938.
An aeroplane had been reported to have come down in the sea, but nothing could be found, and it was presumed that a machine ftying very low had given rise to the report.—Rewards, £4...
Mr. A. J. G. Anson, of Hastings and St. Leonards
Mr. A. J. G. Anson, who died on llth January, at the age of seventy-seven, was from the beginning of 1917 until towards the end of 1925 the Honorary Secretary of the Hastings Station, and he retired then on account of serious ill-health. He...
Category: Obituaries
The Ladies' Life-Boat Guild and New Branches of the Institution
ALTHOUGH the progress of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild has not been as marked as we had hoped that it would be, nevertheless many Guilds have been formed, notably in the North of England and in the South-West of England; and wherever...
Category: Branches
Effective Fund Raisers the Ladies of Walton
Effective fund raisers in front of their effective fund-raising vehicle.
The ladies of Walton and Frinton guild raised over £900 during lifeboat week selling souvenirs from this caravan which thev purchased themselves.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
H.M. Minesweeper Canton
— H. M. Mine- Sweeper Canton ran aground on the Newcome Sands in a strong E.N.E.
breeze and rough sea, on the 27th May.
j Signals of distress were made as the sea was breaking over her...