LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
"Tar and Grease."
Hand over Hand Chanty.
BY CAPTAIN Q. C. A. CRAUFUKD, R.N., honorary secretary of the Dungeness life-boat station.
" The items expended on this work were tar and grease."—Honorary Secretary's...
Category: Songs
The S.S. Vostizza
The No. 2 Life-boat John Fielden was launched at 5.30 A.M. on the 30th November to the assistance of a, vessel, which had stranded about four miles to the north of Whitby.
The vessel turned out to be the s.s. Vos- tizza...
Gipsy, of Chepstow
On the 19th February, the schooner Gipsy, of Chepstow, was wrecked on St. Ives Ridge, during a strong northerly gale. The Moses life-boat was launched when the vessel was seen running for St. Ives, and reached her just as she grounded on the...
The Old Boys' Association of Maisie Graham Sea Training School Scarborough Has Been Presented With This Fine Model Lifeboat By Its Maker Mr G Dawson and During Social Functions It Has Alr
The Old Boys' Association of Maisie Graham Sea Training School, Scarborough, has been presented with this fine model lifeboat by its maker, Mr G. Dawson and during social functions it has already inspired contributions to the RNLI... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Saturday Club
The Saturday Club for deaf and partially hearing children aged 8 to 16, Newport, Isle of Wight, includes many outdoor activities in its programme, and four weeks of special efforts for the RNLI culminated in an exhibition football match... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Cymro, of Amlwch
On the 8th April, the smack Cymro, of Amlwch, was observed with a signal of distress flying, in Moelfre Bay, during a strong easterly wind. This life-boat put off and succeeded in saving the smack's crew of 2 men. The vessel...
The Humber Boat-House
AT Spurn Point, on the Humber, on llth July, a tablet on the Life-boat House was unveiled to the memory of the late Mr. S. Crabtree Helm, of Bradford and Ilkley, who left £2,000 to the Institution, as well as a share in the ultimate...
Category: Articles
The Mystery Lifeboat...
Continued from page 95 The Mystery Lifeboat...
... the photographs are of Lynmouth, North Devon.
I think they must have been taken about 1925-26. Asa youngster I went with my parents for a week every... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Duke of Northumberland's Life-Boat Essay Competition, 1936
THE Duke of Northumberland's Life- boat Essay Competition for elementary schools, has been held this year for the sixteenth time. The number of schools which took part was 2,175, a decrease on last year of 336.
Of this...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Vitorialoide
BRAZILIAN STEAMER ASHORE Dover, Kent.—At 3.45 in the morning of the 7th of December, 1947, informa- tion was received from the coastguard at St. Margarets that a vessel was aground in the bay, and the motor life-boat J. B. Proudfoot was...