It is a comfort to know . . .
On Sunday October 22, I was a guest aboard Yarmouth lifeboat when she was required to answer the tragic call in Christchurch Bay. Although the sea was quiet at the time, I must say that I was...
Category: Correspondence
Fig 4 (below): Deep bilge keels, port and starboard, have now completed the protective tunnels for the propellers. - View image in PDF
'A' brackets and stern tubes, ready to take the propeller shafts, are fitted.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Winterton No. 2 Life-boat Margaret was launched at 1 A.M. on the 13th April to the assistance of a vessel stranded on Hammond's Knoll. When about three miles out the boat was picked up by a steam-tug, and arrived about 7 A.M. at the...
SUTTON, LINCOLNSHIRE.—At the request of the crew, the boat on this station has been replaced by a new self-righting Life- boat, 30 feet long, 8 feet wide, and rowing 8 oars double-banked. A new transport- ing-carriage was sent with the boat....
Category: Articles
GROOMSPORT, IRELAND.—The NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has forwarded a new 32-feet 10-oared life-boat to this station, in place of a smaller one which was found i unsuitable for the locality. A transporting- I carriage has also been sent...
Category: Articles
BOURNEMOUTH, HAMPSHIRE. About 2.20 in the afternoon of Easter Sunday, the 21st of April, 1946, the pleasure craft Skylark sank in Bournemouth Bay about a mile off Alum Chine, with 70 or more people on board. The weather was fine and the sea...
Category: Services
To celebrate the centenary of the establishment of the Walmer Life- boat station the Goodwin Sands and Downs branch of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild launched, at the suggestion of the branch secretary, Mrs. Cavell, a special campaign to...
Category: Donations
ABOUT 5.30 on the afternoon of the 18th July, 1961, a girl who was swim- ming was seen to be in difficulties near the slipway which is used for launching the Appledore boarding boat. There was a slight, variable breeze and a calm sea. It was...
Category: Awards