LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Boy Jimmy
Cromer, Norfolk.—About nine o'clock on the morning of the 5th of June, 1953, the coxswain of the No. 1 life- boat was returning to Cromer in his fishing boat, when another fishing boat, the White Rose, which had just put to sea, hailed...
Your Letters
A special thank you They say that just before you die, your whole life passes before you. At the age of eight you haven't had much of a life so when you come close to 'it', you really can recall everything.
My...
Category: Correspondence
The Recent Gales
IN each succeeding Number of this Journal, it has been our painful duty to record the disasters which day by day have occurred to shipping; and our Wreck Register shows that, on an average of the whole year, about two wrecks a day take place...
Category: Articles
MAKE A FISH SUPPER!
A day rarely goes past without a lifeboat crew member having to skip a meal as they answer the call for help. So, this October, we’re asking you to host your own dinner party in support of our lifesavers: a fundraising fish...
Category: Articles
(Bram Stoker Created the Infamous Character of Count Dracula and Wrote the Well-Known Novel While In Whitby)
(Bram Stoker created the infamous character of Count Dracula and wrote the well-known novel while in Whitby.) (Photo Whitby Gazette). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Feature Building Into the Millennium
Building into the millennium Shoreworks manager Howard Richings moves on to western Scotland, travelling from Kippford to Barra IslandHaving boldly gone from Berwick, on the north-east corner of England, we now cross the Final Frontier and...
Category: Articles
The Ecuadorian Motor Vessel Bonita
Twenty-nine rescued A MAYDAY RELAY message from the Danish motor vessel Charlottenburg was heard by St Peter Port Signal Station at 1323 on Sunday December 13, 1981.
Charlottenburg was going to the assistance of Bonita, an...
Steel Is the Material Chosen for the 47Ft Tyne Class Lifeboat
Steel is the material chosen for the 47ft Tyne class lifeboat which is designed to be launched from and recovered and hauled up coastal slipsways. An all-welded steel structure is effectively monolithic, a weld in steel developing the full... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Jubilee Fix It!
Jubilee Fix it! Last year was an important year for the Scarborough Ladies' lifeboat guild as they celebrated their Diamond Jubilee. The spring bank holiday was packed with fund raising activities including a festival of flowers held at... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Govier & Son Ltd
Lifeboat Man £73 eiqht 91/2" CHARACTERS OF THE SEA1 from Royal Doulton Govier's of Sidmouth are pleased to offer you this opportunitj of acquiring Royal Doulton's "Characters of the Sea" and at the same time make...
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