LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Pushing the boat out: Members of the running team based at the Green Man, Stamford pushed a 14ft dinghy, dressed as a lifeboat, around the Stamford Festival half marathon and raised £1,000 for the Stamford and District branch. Later in... - View image in PDF

List of New Branches.

THE following new Branches have been formed since the list published in The Lifeboat for February, 1927 :— Branch.

Abergavenny . . . . .

Abertillery . . . ....

Teesmouth, and Scarborough, Yorkshire.

—At 4.20 P.M. on the 12th February, 1938, a request was received from the coastguard at Whitby for the motor life-boa.t J. W. Archer, as the destroyer H.M.S. Walrus had broken from her...

On the 28th September last the Norwegian Galliot Ship Provence ran on shore on the south side of Berwick-har- bour; the wind blowing strong from the E.N.E., and a heavy sea running at the time.

The Berwick life-boat,...

JDST a week before the Lord Mayor's Show in November last the North Deal Life-boats had carried out the very gallant rescues which are described on another page, when three vessels were in distress on the Goodwin Sands. It was felt to be...

The lifeboat house ai Skegness makes good use of us position in the middle of a busy esplanade. Both Mersey and D class are on view and a souvenir shop does good business. - View image in PDF

FEBRUARY 2 3RD. - SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. At 5.45 in the evening the coastguard reported that a fishing boat, which had been unable to enter Whitby harbour owing to heavy seas, was making for Scarborough to shelter, and at 6.5 the motor life...

Body Han, Midship Section.

The accompanying 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 deration and...