LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Notes of the Quarter
THE LOSS of Penlee lifeboat and her crew stunned people throughout Great Britain and Ireland and thousands of messages of sympathy from many parts of the world were received by the bereaved families. Before she was lost, the lifeboat Solomon...
Category: Articles
Belle, of Sunderland
During a gale of wind from S.W., on the 2nd January, 1869, the brig Belle, of Sunderland, was total)/ wrecked on Sizewell Bank. The life-boat Ipswich,- which is stationed at Thorpeness, was launched with all practical speed, and happily...
The Captured Boats
The last that the Institution heard of its life-boats in Jersey and Guernsey before the Germans captured the Channel Islands was on June 29th. 1940. They had been ordered to sail for Cowes, but that afternoon Jersey telephoned that the...
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Resolutions Passed at the Annual Meeting for 1858
1.—Moved by Vice-Admiral BOWLES, C.B.
Seconded by WILLIAM COTTON, Esq., F.R.S., late Governor of the Bank of England,— 1.—That the Report now read be adopted and circulated.
2.-—Moved by Rear-Admiral...
Category: Meetings
The Motorship Eminent
Fowey, Cornwall.—At 7.33 on the morning of the 16th of March, 1956, the Polruan coastguard rang up to say that the motorship Eminent, of Am- sterdam, had wirelessed that she had broken down about one mile south- east of Fowey and...
The Fishing Fleet
The Life - boat Queensbury was launched about 7.30 A.M. on the morning of the 9th June to render assistance to the fishing fleet, which had to return to harbour on account of the weather.
The cobles left for the fishing...
The New Deputy-Secretary
The new deputy-secretary is Lieut.-Col. C. Stewart Watson, of the Royal Marines. He was educated at Cheltenham College and has specialised in naval gunnery. First as head ot the School of Naval Gunnery at Portsmouth, and then as...
Category: Articles
A Tractor's Summer Bathe
The drought in 1949 was so severe that the Council at Rhyl would not allow the launching tractor to be washed with fresh water, so her drivers washed her at sea. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Life-Boat Station
THE LIFE-BOAT STATION.
THE following brief description and diagrams illustrative of a complete Life-boat Establishment, including the House for the protection of the boat, will serve to convey an idea of the general...
Category: Articles
The Lightship Tender Roaming
Arklow, Co. W'icklow.—About three o'clock on the afternoon of the 1st of March, 1953, four boys walking on the beach near Arklow Rock heard shouts through dense fog from a vessel ashore.
The vessel was asking for a...