LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Life-Boat Depot at Boreham Wood
THE Life-boat Institution's depot at Boreham Wood was completed in July, 1939. It replaced the old store-yard on the Thames at Poplar, which had served the Institution for more than fifty years.
The Poplar store-yard...
Category: Articles
(Right) Roy Caws of Cowes Base Explains the Finer Points of a D Class Inflatable to a Visitor at Cowes
(Right) Roy Caws of Cowes Base Explains The Finer Points of A D Class Inflatable To A Visitor at Cowes. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Shoreboat Services. For Which Rewards Were Given at the April, May, June and July Meetings of the Committee of Management
April Meeting.
Selsey, Sussex.—On the 8th April two men in a fishing-boat rescued the crew of two of another fishing-boat which had capsized—Rewards £2; and 2s. 6d. for fuel used. (For full account see page...
Category: Services
Peter Christian
Please send me Code Colour Waist Ins Leg Qty Total Cotton Twill Chino MT06 Cotton Twill Chino MT06 Cotton Twill Chino MT06 Cotton Twill Chino MT06 COLOURS: Sand, Stone, Navy, Sage p&p £4.00 Total WAIST: 32, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44,...
Category: Advertisement
Haven Knox-Johnston
Haven Knox-Johnston The Pleasure Craft rers To obtain a competitive quotation with wide cover in plain English Fax or Freepost the coupon below We will make a donation j to the RNLI for every I Freepost Haven Knox-Johnston, East India House,...
Category: Advertisement
Treasure Sale
Treasure Sale Silver coins and other treasure salvaged from the Dutch East Indiaman Hollandia, which sank in 1743, were sold by auction at Penzance on 8th September. Mr. Michael Newman, acting on behalf of Rex Cowan, the leader of the...
Category: Articles
Lunhods I Wedged Firmly Into the Rocks South of Kirkabister Light at the Entrance to Bressay Sound. It Was Dark and Blowing Force 10 When Soldian Went to Her R
Lunhods I wedged firmly into the rocks south of Kirkabister Light at the entrance to Bressay Sound. It was dark and blowing Force 10 when Soldian went to her rescue. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
July
Launches 70. Lives rescued 49.
JULY 2ND. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. At 11.15 P.M. a message was received from the coastguard that a vessel was on fire about five miles south-west of Shoreham. A fresh westerly wind was...
Category: Services
A Disaster at Arbroath
EARLY on 30th November last, two fishing yawls, the Restless Ocean and the Dutiful, put out from Arbroath, the weather being fine and the sea smooth.
About seven in the morning the wind shifted, and by 9.30 it was blowing...
Category: Services
The RNLI and me: Ant Middleton
WHO IS ANT MIDDLETON?
Ant Middleton features in Channel 4’s SAS : Who Dares Wins, Mutiny and the forthcoming Escape. Born in Portsmouth and raised in France, Ant followed a career in the armed forces, eventually joining the Royal...
Category: Articles