LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
THURSDAY, 13th June, 1907.
Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.
Also read those of the Building, Finance and...
Category: Committee
Alice
Disaster to the Rye Life-boat.
The Whole Crew Drowned.
THE worst disaster which has fallen on the Life-boat Service for many years occurred on 15th November. It fell with crushing weight on the gallant...
Lightvessel Breaks Adrift
AT 9.49 on the evening of the 12th November, 1961, the Deal coastguard informed the Walmer honorary secre- tary that the East Goodwin lightvessel, which had been buffeted by heavy seas, had broken adrift from her moorings and was driving...
Category: Services
The Ramsgate Life-Boat: A Rescue
CHAPTER I.
A WRECK OFT MARGATE.
THE night of Sunday, the 12th of February, in the present year, was what sailors call a very dirty night. Heavy masses of clouds skirted the horizon as the sun get; and,...
Category: Services
Bookshelf
Lifeboat station histories The Story of the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Lifeboats (new) The Story of the Exmouth Lifeboats (updated 3rd edition) The Story of the Whitby Lifeboats (updated 3rd edition) all by Jeff Morris published by the...
Category: Articles
For Converting Solar Energy Into Electrical Power a Solar Battery Charger Made By Lucas CAV Marine Seen Here Fitted on Cabin Top of a H Moody's Carbineer 46 Mo
For converting solar energy into electrical power, a solar battery charger made by Lucas C.A.V. Marine, seen here fitted on cabin top of A. H. Moody's Carbineer 46 motor sailer. A ray of hope—from light—for the future ?. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Life-Boat Crossword—2
The winners of the October crossword were: 1st prize (watch), Mrs. Laura S. Lamb, Lloyds Bank House, Broadway, Worcs.; 2nd prize (£1), Mr. J. A. Porter, 149 Coast Drive, Lydd-on-Sea, Kent; 3rd prize (£1), Mr. P....
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Services November and December 1986 January and February 1987
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire 54ft Arun: January 12 Aberystwyth, Dyfed C class inflatable Deccmhcr 30 (twice) Aith. Shetland 52ft Arun: January 20 Aldeburgh, Suffolk 37ft 6in Rather: November 29 and 30 Alderney, Channel Islands 44ft Waveney:...
Category: Services
New D Class Named at Moelfre
Crowds flocked to Moelfre lifeboat station on 29 August to witness the naming and dedication of the station's new D class lifeboat.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Twenty-Two's Watch
LIFE-BOATMEN all over the country at one time or another have read about, or even participated in, a rescue carried out by an R.A.F. helicopter.
From time to time, too, helicopters make the headlines, not for some dramatic...
Category: Articles