LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Storeyard's Children's Party
THE fifth Christmas party given by the Staff at the Storeyard at Poplar, with the help of the Staff at Headquarters, to poor children of the district, took place on the 22nd December last at the Poplar Town Hall. Over 150 children were...
Category: Articles
Disposition of Life-Boats
The Michael Stephens (ex-Exmouth) has been placed in the reserve fleet along with the Crawford and Constance Conybeare (ex-Falmouth). The Gertrude (ex-Holy Island) has gone to Exmouth, and the Lilla Marras, Douglas and Will (ex-Cromarty) is...
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Scott, of Sunderland
On the 22nd Oct., in consequence of a telegram from Broadstairs, this invaluable boat proceeded in tow of the harbour steamer to the Kentish Knock Lightship, twenty-six miles from Ramsgate, which was reached an hour before midnight. Hailing...
Foreign Life-Boat Services. Rescues from British Vessels In 1935, and Numbers of the Fleets
Rescues from British Vessels in 1935, and Numbers of the Fleets.
DURING 1935 foreign life-boats went to the help of 22 British vessels. One of these services was by Belgium, 1 by Germany, 1 by Iceland, 3 by France, 3 by...
Category: Services
Signs of life
2 July: Dunbar, East Lothian When Dunbar lifeboat crew sped to a sinking fishing boat, they feared they had arrived too late – the fishing boat’s bow was all that could be seen. Crew Member Alistair Punton jumped...
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Day Dawn, of Peterhead
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.—At 9.50 A.M.
on Tuesday, the 26th October, 1937, a man reported that the motor fishing boat Day Dawn, of Peterhead, was near the rocks at South Head with her engine broken down, and that she was...
The Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society
IN a recent number of this Journal, after explaining the reasons which had led to the transfer of the Life-boat Establishments of the Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society to the Royal National Life-boat...
Category: Articles
Sir William Arnold Guernsey's New 52' Arun Lifeboat Was Named By Hrh the Duchess of Kent at St.Peter Port on May 23; It Was the First Visit Made By the Duchess To
Sir William Arnold, Guernsey's new 52' Arun lifeboat, was named by HRH the Duchess of Kent at St Peter Port on May 23; it was the first visit made by the Duchess to Guernsey—on a day of sun and showers she was warmly welcomed by the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
St Lawrence of Liverpool
On the 20th September in- telligence was brought to Southport that a vessel was on shore on the Salthouse Bank,at the entrance to the River Ribble. The life- boat was at once launched, and in 2i hours reached the wreck, which was found to be...
The Old Life-Boat Station at South Sands from Which the William and Emma Set Out In 1916 and (right) the Names of the 13 Local Life-Boatmen Who Perished In the Disaster
The old life-boat station at South Sands from which the William and Emma set out in 1916 and (right) the names of the 13 local life-boatmen who perished in the disaster. It was Richard Durant, of Sharpham, Totnes, who gave Salcombe its first... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs