LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Small Boat (2)
— 26th July.
Searched for and found small boat the occupants of which had been drowned.— Rewards, £6 5s..
A Boat (2)
Fleetwood, Lancashire.—10th June.
Search was made for an overdue boat, but she did not need help and reached Blackpool.—Rewards, £15 11*. 6d..
Sennen Cove—A Correction
IN the account of the naming ceremony of the Sennen Cove life-boat in the last issue of the journal, it was said that the ceremony had been arranged by Mr. Barrie Bennetts, the honorary secretary of the station, and the local committee. It...
Category: Inaugurations
A Raft of Races
The team from The Shoulder of Mutton, winners of the award for the pub collecting the most sponsorship in the river Ouse raft race. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Belgian Steamer
JANUARY 25TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
An unknown Belgian steamer had stranded near the South Middle Haisboro’ Buoy, but refloated and went on her way.-Rewards, e41 0s. 6d..
£5,000 a Month.
On the other hand, in rewards and other payments to its crews and launchers, the Institution spent in 1941 more than ever before. It spent nearly £70,000. In the war it has been spending, in payments to those on the coast engaged in the...
Category: Articles
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
ILFRACOMBE, NORTH DEVON.—The NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has recently formed a life-boat establishment at Ilfracombe, where there had at one time been a life-boat station under local management, which, however, it had*been found necessary...
Category: Articles
Naming Ceremonies In England
FOUR other naming ceremonies were held in England, in June and July, 1950, at Seaham, Clovelly, Hastings, and Teesmouth.
Seaham The new Seaham life-boat lias been built out of a legacy from the late Miss Elizabeth Elmy, of...
Category: Inaugurations
A Rowing Boat
Lytham St. Annes, Lancashire.—At 10.15 on the morning of the 31st of January, 1953, the life-boat coxswain reported that two men were in diffi- culties in a rowing boat. They had anchored two miles east of Lytham pier and were flying a...
A Rowing Boat
Hastings, Sussex.—At 2.8 on the afternoon of the llth of March, 1953, the Fairlight coastguard reported that an angler appeared to be in difficulties in a rowing-boat, about two miles south of Hastings pier, and was waving a flag....