LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Louis Sheid and Tajandoen (1)
SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT SALCOMBE DEC. 7TH. - SALCOMBE, AND PLYMOUTH, DEVON. Early in the morning the Belgian steamer Louis Sheid, of over 6,000 tons, was in the English Channel on her way to Antwerp. She had a crew of forty-six men. She saw...
The New Fleet
LONG before the war ended the Institution had made plans to rebuild a great part of its fleet. It lost six boats, destroyed by the enemy, and more serious even than this loss were the delays. In the last four years of the war the building of...
Category: Articles
Duke of Northumberland's Life-Boat Essay Competition, 1930
Developments for 1931.
THE Duke of Northumberland's Life- boat Essay Competition has now been held for ten years. Started in 1918, it was held in that year and the two following years. In 1921,1922 and 1923 no...
Category: Articles
A Sailing Boat (4)
Walmer, Kent.—At 12.50 P.M. on the 6th July, 1939, a message was received from the Deal coastguard that a sailing boat with five people on board was flying an oilskin in her rigging near Deal Bank Buoy. A strong S.W. wind was blowing, with a...
None (1)
Walton and Frinton, Essex; Margate, Ramsgate, and Walmer, Kent.— 27th October, 1937. During naval exercises fireworks were used by the Fleet without notice being given. They were taken for distress signals and these four motor life-boats...
Josephine II (1)
Hythe, Dover, and Folkestone, Kent.— On the night of the 13th-14th December the Hythe and Dover motor life-boats and a Folkestone fishing boat went out to the rescue of the crew of three of the motor fishing boat Josephine II, of...
Sweet Reason
Ramsgate, Kent. At 7.50 p.m. on 2ist August, 1965, a local yacht club told the honorary secretary that three yachts were missing in a race. One was thought to be dismasted five miles inside the North Goodwin lightvessel. The life-boat...
Goodheart
Dover, Kent.—At 10.45 on the night of the 18th of March, 1954, Lloyds signal station on the eastern harbour arm reported that a boat had flashed SOS three times. At 10.50 the life-boat Southern Africa put out.
The sea was...
Widow of a Bowman
THE bowman of the Walmer life-boat, James Rich, collapsed and died in the life-boat when she went out, on the 24th of December 1950, to the help of the Italian motor vessel Santagata, and rescued her crew of thirty-two. An account of the...
Category: Obituaries
A Canoe
Walmer, Kent. At 6.17 on the evening of the 13th June, 1961, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a Royal Marine conoeist had capsized off Deal.
There was a moderate north-north- westerly wind with a choppy sea...