LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Night Distress Signals
' For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle ?" UNTIL the year 1873, vast as were the interests at stake, there was no recognised system of night signals to be shown by vessels in distress...
Category: Articles
Obituary. Sir John Cameron Lamb
IT is with profound regret that we have to record the death, on the 30th March, of Sir John Cameron Lamb, C.B., C.M.G., V.P., the late Deputy-Chairman of the Institution. At the annual meeting in 1914 the Chairman, Lord Selborne, referred to...
Category: Obituaries
The Old Wells Lifeboat Royal Silver Jubilee 1910-1935 Taking Local Raf Pilots Far a Trip In March 1940 By Courtesy of Planet News Ltd
The old Wells lifeboat Royal Silver Jubilee 1910-1935 taking local RAF pilots far a trip in March 1940. - View image in PDF
by courtesy of Planet News Ltd. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Harvest Festival of Two Life-Boats
Two Life-boats, the Martha, of Cresswell, and the Edward and Eliza, of Holy Island, celebrated Harvest Festival by answering the call of vessels in distress. In both cases the crews were actually in church, and the Harvest Festival service...
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Weather Forecasts and Storm Warnings
IT will have been observed, and doubtless with regret by many of our readers, that in the early part of last month (December, 1866) Government notified their intention of, at least for a season, discontinuing the well-known Storm Warnings to...
Category: Articles
A Harbour Fete at the Little Northumbrian Coastal Village of Craster Last July Raised £1531 for the Lifeboat Service It Was Opened With Charm and Wit By Joyce Grenfell
A harbour fete at the little Northumbrian coastal village of Craster last July raised £.1,531 for the lifeboat service. It was opened with charm and wit by Joyce Grenfell who also sang snatches of her songs, everyone joining in... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Skegness Life-Boat Puts Out to Search for Airman
Skegness Life-Boat Puts Out To Search For Airman. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Fair Adventure
A LONG SEARCH At 1.42 p.m. on sist October, 1965, the fishing vessel Fair Adventure was reported by the coastguard to have requested an escort as all her navigational aids had ceased to function eight miles east of the Sea Gem oil rig. The...
The Finnish Four-Masted Barque Herzogin Cecilie
Sal combe, Devon. — Early on the morning of the 25th April the Finnish four-masted barque Herzogin Cecilie, of Mariehamn, bound from Australia to Falmouth and Ipswich with a cargo of grain, ran ashore in a thick fog between Sewer Mill Cove...
Nostalgia Direct
AVAILABLE ON 2 TAPES OR 2 CDs RICHARD CLAYDERMAN Music brings back such fond memories to all of us ... especially the romantic piano sound of Richard Clayderman.
We are delighted to present Moonlight d Roses his wonderful...
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