LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Naming Ceremonies
TEN new motor life-boats were named during 1951. Seven were on the Eng- lish coast, at New Brighton (Liverpool), Margate, Scarborough, Lytham, Culler- coats, Newbiggin and Redcar; two on the Scottish coast, at Arbroath and Anstruther; and...
Category: Inaugurations
Clarkeden
INJURED SEAMAN Penlee, Cornwall. At 9 p.m. on i8th November, 1964, the honorary secretary told the coxswain that the motor vessel Clarkeden was approaching with an injured man aboard. At 12.45 a.m. the life-boat Solomon Browne was launched...
1930: The Innovative Sir William Hillary Is Launched For The First Time, At Dover, Kent
1930: the innovative Sir William Hillary is launched for the first time, at Dover, Kent Photo: Keystone View Co.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Ths Beautiful Setting of Longstock Water Gardens Is Set to Raise Funds for the RNLI
Ths beautiful setting of Longstock Water Gardens is set to raise funds for the RNLI. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Book Corner
more than its members generally realise, upon seamen and the ships they manned. Take away the common sailor and the craft in which, down the centuries, he has carried goods through tempest and fog, past innumerable natural and man-made...
Category: Articles
Naming the Life-Boat
IN previous issues of this Journal * the building and testing of a Life-boat have been described, and it is proposed in this and ensuing articles to give some account of the further life history of the boat.
The boat being...
Category: Articles
The S.S. lano
Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At 12.30 early on the morning of the 4th of November, 1957, the Foreland coast- guard telephoned that a steamer anchored in Sandown Bay appeared to be dragging. The life-boat crew were alerted, and half an hour...
Letters
AIRBORNE LIFE-BOATS 0 I was looking at back numbers of THE LIFEBOAT and came on your issue of January, 1971, in which an airborne life-boat in connection with the Wells, Norfolk, article was shown being dropped off the east coast on 5th May,...
Category: Correspondence
Porpoise
Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 2.35 on the afternoon of the 26th of October, 1957, the life-boat Edian Courtauld left her moorings to attend the ceremony at Clacton of scattering the ashes of the late Coxswain A. C. Potter, of...
Calshot (Above): Every Five Months Or So 40001 Ernest William and Elizabeth Ellen Hinde Is Slipped on a Sunday Mid-Day Tide to Be Cleaned Below the Waterline
Calshot (above): Every five months or so 40.001, Ernest William and Elizabeth Ellen Hinde, is slipped on a Sunday mid-day tide to be cleaned below the waterline. Crew and helpers rally round and she comes out at about 0900 and is back again... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs