LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

DURING December life-boats went out on service 40 times and rescued 60 lives.

PROPELLER FOULED, ANCHOR CHAIN BROKEN Arklow, Co. Wicklow.—At five o'clock on the evening of the 1st of December, 1950, distress signals...

The 8i-ton Minehead life-boat being lifted into the Campania (See page 278). - View image in PDF

Note in background crane which will capsize the Rather for her righting trial and, on her stem, dial to indicate angle of heel when engine shut-down switch operates.. - View image in PDF

IN the course of his speech from the chair at the Annual General Meeting,* Lord Burnham made an urgent appeal to the great shipping firms to give their generous support to the Life-boat Service, and pointed out that, at present, many of them...

Amble, Northumberland.—At 3.5 in the morning of the 6th of May, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel had run aground at the harbour entrance and needed help, and at 3.10 the life-boat J. W. Archer left her moorings. There was a...

Coxswain Desmond Cox of Appledore gives an unconvincing display of culinary know-how in the bow of the station's Atlantic 21. It was all part of the ladies' guild's successful attempt to draw attention to their new cookery book... - View image in PDF

THEE.E will again be two life-boat calendars ready for Christmas, one for hanging and the other for the pocket or handbag, and this year the Institution will also issue a Christmas card, the first since 1941.

The hanging...

Sculpture from scrap has been a highly successful idea for John Perse nee, a committee member of Heist on branch and also a Shoreline member. Mr Persence, a welder by trade, creates, in his spare time, model steam engines, boats and figures... - View image in PDF