LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Meetings of Committee, 1852
Thursday, 8th January, 1852. THOMAS WILSON, Esq., in the chair.
The minutes of the previous meeting having been confirmed,— It was resolved, on an application from the Local Committee at Aldborough, Suffolk, to grant from...
Category: Committee
Notes of the Quarter (1)
NOTES OFTHEQUARTER (from page 355) their efforts in collecting paperback books, enough money has been raised to provide replacements in due course for the inshore lifeboats at Beaumaris, Littlehampton, North Berwick and St. Agnes. A total of...
Category: Articles
Sea Caress, of Skibbereen and The Gem
JANUARY 1 7TH. - BALTIMORE, CO.
CORK. At 9.50 at night friends of the crew of the motor fishing boat Sea Caress, of Skibbereen, reported that the boat was in distress five miles to the south-east of Baltimore Harbour, and...
An Aircraft (1)
MAY 17TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. An aircraft had been reported down in the sea, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £6 13s..
An Aeroplane (38)
DEC. 7TH. - MARGATE, KENT. Gunfire had been heard and an aeroplane reported down in the sea, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £8 9s..
An Aeroplane (85)
AUGUST 12TH. - NEWHAVEN, AND HASTINGS, SUSSEX. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but nothing could be found. - Rewards : Newhaven, £8 15s ; Hastings, £14 3s. 6d.
A Gift from An Infants' School
A SHORT time ago the Institution lent to the head mistress of an infants' school in a very poor part of London, one of its models in glass tanks, which are used for showing how a self-righting Life- boat empties herself of water and...
Category: Donations
Vestfart
Stromness, Orkneys.—At 7.45 on the evening of the 26th of November, 1954, the Kirkwall coastguard rang up to say that a Swedish tanker had rescued the crew of six of the motor fishing vessel Vestfart, of Gothenburg, which had capsized, and...
Against the flow – the first woman to sail solo the ‘wrong way’ around the world
Against the flow – the first woman to sail solo the ‘wrong way’ around the world
by Dee Caffari
Review by Tim Robertson
The comparisons are inevitable I suppose – two women competing solo in a...
Category: Articles
Arbroath's 42Ft Watson Lifeboat the Duke of Montrose Went on Station In 1956 She Was Exhibited at the International Lifeboat Conference at Edinburgh In 1963
Arbroath's 42ft Watson lifeboat, The Duke of Montrose, went on station in 1956. - View image in PDF
She was exhibited at the International Lifeboat Conference at Edinburgh in 1963.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs