LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The American Liberty Ship T. A. Johnston, of Pensecola (1)
DECEMBER 10TH. - SWANAGE, DORSET, AND BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT.
About ten at night the coastguard reported to the Swanage life-boat station that a steamer was ashore off Egmont Point, west of St. Albans Head. The motor life...
The Peggy Gordon
On the morning of the 28th September the Ballantrae coastguard reported that a small fish- ing boat off Lendalfoot wanted help.
A moderate W.N.W. breeze was blow- ing, with a moderate sea. The weather was thick, with rain...
The Mumbles (Below): a New Winch Installed In the Boathouse Last January Was Brought Across from Swansea Dock By An Army Landing Craft to Be Hauled Up the Slipway
The Mumbles (below): A new winch, installed in the boathouse last January, was brought across from Swansea Dock by an army landing craft to be hauled up the slipway by the old Webber winch which it is replacing.
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Category: Photographs
News from the Branches. 1st November, 1933, to 31st January, 1934
1st November, 1933, to 31st January, 1934.
Greater London.
CLAPHAM.—Whist drive.
CROYDON.—Lantern lectures at Wood- side by Mr. F. C. Ashby and the district organizing...
Category: Branches
Stuck fast, then footloose
Hartlepool crew battled to save a 16-year-old boy stuck waist-deep in sand with a rapidly rising tide on 30 September 2011. The boy had got his foot caught when helping two younger members of his family from the water. The crew used a hose...
Category: Articles
Living on the edge
Our coastlines may appear as fi rm lines on a map but they are constantly changing. A European Commission report in 2004 stated that over 17% of the UK and nearly 20% of the RoI coastline is eroding, challenging the very existence of some...
Category: Articles
The Browns of Cresswell
THERE has been a Life-boat at Cresswell, on the Northumbrian coast, for the last fifty years. What manner of place it is was described by the then Hon. Secre- tary in an article which appeared in! The Lifeboat in February,...
Category: Articles
Hythe Life-Boat at Calais
Inaugural Ceremony of the " Mar£chal-Foch." THE Inaugural Ceremony of the Motor Life-boat Marechal-Foch, which the French Life-boat Society has built for its Station at Calais, took place on 15th August. The Marechal-Foch is...
Category: Articles
Llfracombe Celebrated Its 150Th Anniversary With An Hour-Long Ceremony at the Lifeboat Station on the Pier on Saturday September 23 1978 When (Left) a Commemora
llfracombe celebrated its 150th anniversary with an hour-long ceremony at the lifeboat station on the pier on Saturday September 23, 1978, when (left) a commemorative vellum was presented by Mrs Georgina Keen, a member of the Committee of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Hythe Life-Boat Play
LAST February, as already reported in The Life-boat, the Hythe life-boat crew gave an entertainment. It was their second. The first had taken place two years before. It had been modestly called a concert, but proved to be such an original...
Category: Articles