LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Life-Boats and Shipwrecks
TO THE EDITOR Or THE TIMES.
SIR The severe loss of life occasioned by shipwrecks off the coasts of the United Kingdom during the last year ought to direct the attention of every friend of humanity to the most efficacious...
Category: Correspondence
The S.S. Mabel
BROADSTAIRS.—On the 14th March, in reply to signal guns from the East Goodwin Lightship, at 3.30 A.M., the Samuel Morrison Collins Life-boat proceeded to the Goodwin Sands, and found the ss. Mabel, of Hartlepool, ashore on the eastern part...
Lady Daphne
The Christmas Gales.
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Life-boat's Four Launches in one Day.
THE gales at the end of October and November were followed by rough weather at the end of December, with heavy...
Book Reviews
A director of Shire Publications at Tring, Hertfordshire, recently had the excellent idea that a guide book should be produced based on life-boat stations.
This company specialises in the publication of unusual guides. The...
Category: Articles
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Category: Advertisement
Book Reviews
With the publication of Derek Wood and Derek Dempster's revised book, The Narrow Margin (Arrow Books, 25s.), on which the screenplay of the epic film, The Battle of Britain, is based, some of those who were actively engaged may well...
Category: Articles
Services of Shore-Boats, In Saving Life from Shipwreck in 1862, For Which Rewards Have Been Granted By the National Life-Boat Institution
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Category: Services
Asie
BARMOUTH, NOETH WALES.—At noon on the 27th November The Jones Oibb Life-boat was launched, Captain LA PEIMAUDAYE, E.N., District Inspector of Lifeboats, who was at the station on a visit of inspection, going out in her, to the assistance of...
Naming Ceremonies
SEVEN new life-boats were named dur- ing 1953. Four of these boats are stationed on the English coast, at Bridlington, Ilfracombe, Flamborough and Peel; two are in Scotland, at Campbeltown and St. Abbs; and one is in Wales, at Pwllheli. An...
Category: Inaugurations
Sea Adventure
ADVENTURE AT SEA Dungeness, Kent. At 2.50 p.m. on 8th August, 1964, the coastguard told the coxswain that a fishing boat had broken down and was lying at anchor half a mile off Littlestone. Her crew were waving for help while they baled her...