LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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
The Rescue of Drowning Persons
THE RESCUE OF DROWNING PERSONS.
THE summer of 1868 will long be remembered by the present generation in the British Isles as the most extraordinary within their recollection ; for what With the long continuance of almost...
Category: Articles
The Record of 1926
1926 was, in. its weather, a normal year, with severe gales in October and November. During the year there were 269 launches of Life-boats on service, 65 more than in 1925, and 456 lives were rescued from shipwreck, 73 more than in 1925. Of...
Category: Annual Reports
The Mail Steamer St. Sunniva
Two Wrecks in the Shetlands.
Stromness Motor Life-boat's Journeys of 260 and 240 Miles.
DURING March and April two vessels were wrecked on the Shetland Islands.
They were both vessels...
Fishing Cobles
At 8 A.M. on the 10th January eleven of the fishing cobles belonging to Filey put to sea for the purpose of hauling their lines.
Although there was no wind a heavy north-easterly sea was making and when they were about to...
Fishing Boats (1)
Early on the 2nd December eleven fishing boats put out to fish in moderate weather. Later the wind and sea rose, and as there would be great risk to the boats as they came in, the motor life-boat Margaret Harker Smith was launched at 11.10 A...
The Heroic Story of the Life-Boat Service
The Heroic Story of the Life-boat Service A book in the series " Pride of Britain" entitled The Heroic Story of the Life-Boat Service, published by Pitkin Pictorials Ltd., tells the story of the Life-boat Service from the...
Category: Advertisement
Classifieds
FOR SALE Advertising pencils, superb ball pens, combs, brushes, each gold stamped Life-boat name, etc., raise funds, quickly, easily. Bran Tub Toys: samples. Northern Novelties, Bradford 2 (BD2 3AF).
Fund raising with 200%...
Category: Advertisement
C.A.V. Ltd
Chosen for reliability LUCAS The 70 ft boats for the RNLI are each fitted with two 7-inch alternators and control equipment screened and suppressed to comply with BS 1597/1963.
Lucas and CAV supply a full range of...
Category: Advertisement
Horton and Port Eynon Lifeboat Under the Direction of Reg James (I)
Burrows Caravan Site at Morton on the Cower Peninsula has, for several years, held a sports day in aid o/Horton and Port Eynon lifeboat. Under the direction of Reg James (I), a paraplegic, and his helpers, the event raises over £500... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs