LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Some Ways of Raising Money
Birmingham branch had a busy time last October. In one week an exhibition at the New Street Shopping Centre raised a magnificent £2,700. The branch's annual dinner and dance, held during the same week at the Botanical Gardens, and...
Category: Articles
Helsingoe, of Elsinore
The following account of an additional noble and great service recently performed by the same valuable life-boat cannot fail to be read with much interest. These details have been furnished by the Rev. G. W.
STEWARD, the...
The Life-Boat
The following figures show the general form, the nature of the fittings, and air-chambers of one of these boats, 33 feet in length and 8 feet in breadth. In figs. 1 and 2, the elevation and deck plans, the general exterior form of the boat...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Yewmount
On 6th December the s.s. Yewmount, of Glasgow, struck some submerged ob- struction off the Longstone Light House, while bound from Methil to Treport, with coal. The master made for the coast and ran her ashore in Alnmouth Bay. Information...
On 5Th May, 1943, the Wells Life-Boat Took Part In An Interesting Service In Which the R.A.F. for the First Time Dropped An Airborne Life-Boat to a 'Ditched' Bomber Crew Off the East Anglian Coast. Th
On 5th May, 1943, the Wells life-boat took part in an interesting service in which the R.A.F. for the first time dropped an airborne life-boat to a 'ditched' bomber crew off the East Anglian coast. The 'ditched' crew received... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Relief Fleet’s Frank & Anne Wilkinson
Relief fleet’s Frank & Anne Wilkinson, Photo: Nicholas Leach. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Caudebec
Falmouth, Cornwall. —• About four o'clock in the afternoon of the 2nd ofFebruary, 1950, a message was received that a vessel was dragging and in danger of going on the rocks at Black Rock, in Falmouth Harbour. At 4.15 the...
The S.S. Lesrix and S.S. Empire Pilgrim
JANUARY 26TH. - NEWBURGH, AND ABERDEEN, ABERDEENSHIRE. On the 25th January a very heavy storm of wind and snow broke on the coast. All roads and railways became blocked with snow, making traffic impossible, and telephone wires were broken....
On Saturday Evening August 7 1982 a Joint Event Was Held By Beer and District Branch and the Axminster Girl Guides Association
On Saturday evening August 7, 1982, a joint event was held by Beer and District branch and the Axminster Girl Guides Association, which was attended by about 12,000 people and raised about £850 for the lifeboats. There was a camp fire... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Nile
CAISTER, NORFOLK.—At about 5.30 A.M.
on the 29th October, during a strong breeze from the W.S.W.,and thick weatheraccompanied by rain, rockets were fired from the Cross Sand Light-vessel. The Caister No. 2 Life-boat Godsend...