LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Well Dressing Is An Old Custom In Derbyshire and Here Is a Magnificent Example of the Art Created at Holymoorside Last August Usually Well Dressings Have a Religious Theme But Last Year Chest
Well dressing is an old custom in Derbyshire and here is a magnificent example of the art, created at Holymoorside last August.
Usually well dressings have a religious theme but last year Chesterfield and District branch... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lymington Branch
Lymington branch had another very successful day at Beattlieu Boat Jumble on Sunday April 4, with a total turnover of £1,886. This year, one section of the stall was devoted to 'Bits from Famous Boats', which included a... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The 37-Foot Yacht Gannet
JUNE 5TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE, AND LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE. Two Americans left Liverpool in the 37-foot yacht Gannet to sail home across the Atlantic. With them was a third man who was to leave them at...
A Vessel (16)
DECEMBER 31ST. - BALLYCOTTON, CO.
CORK. Signals of distress had been made by a vessel, but before the life-boat reached her she signalled again that she did not need help and the life-boat was recalled. - Rewards, £13...
The Life-Boat Dog of Aldeburgh
All kinds of memorials have been erected to man but among the more unusual is this one portraying the life-size model of a dog. It can be seen on the front at Aldeburgh on the Suffolk coast overlooking a children's model yacht pond. It... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
BBC TV News Reader Sophie Raworth
Bbc Tv News Reader Sophie Raworth. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
March
MARCH Launches 43 Lives rescued 45 MARCH 2ND. - MONTROSE, ANGUS.
The Admiralty tug Seaman put out from Montrose with a battle target in tow and the life-boat coxswain on board as pilot. A strong northerly wind was blowing,...
Category: Services
Gifts from Crews
ON 26th October last, the Ramsgate Motor Life-boat rescued the crew of six of the German schooner Kate Runne, and also helped to save the vessel. The Crew has given the Institution a donation of £8 18s. 1(M. out of the salvage...
Category: Donations
The Fisher Boy, of Wick
JANUARY 24TH. - THURSO, CAITHNESSSHIRE.
At 12.5 in the afternoon a fisherman telephoned from Melvick that a fishing boat was in distress about seven miles east of Port Skerra, and the motor life-boat...
Henrietta, of Memel
One of the most gal- lant Life-boat services ever rendered on the Scotch coast was performed by the Montrose Life-boats on the 21st Decem- ber, it being attended with the greatest risk to some of the brave Life-boat men.
It...