LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Life-Boat Saturday Movement
EVEN the most sanguine supporters of the "Life-boat Saturday" movement cannot fail to be gratified with the remarkable manner in which this popular organisation, aided by the Ladies' Committees, formed as an auxiliary for...
Category: Articles
From a Boy of Eight
THE following letter has come from a boy, eight years old, living in Derby- shire, with a postal order for eight shillings :— " DEAR SIR,—I had a sale and got 8s.
I love the sea.
" Yours truly,...
Category: Donations
The S.S. Fermanagh
Portpatrick, Wigtownshire. — 12th March. The motor life-boat J. and W.
was launched at 1.30 P.M. as the coastguard had reported that a vessel in Luce Bay was flying distress signals.
A strong S.E. gale was...
Nigretta, of New York
The brigan- tine Nigretta, of New York, drove on the Saunton Sands, in Barnstaple Bay, early on the morning of the 15th November, in a strong W.S.W. wind. The coxswain and crew of the Braunton Life-boat George and Catherine, being on the...
The Prince of Wales and Mrs. Patton
On the other side of Mrs. Patton, Coxswain Henry Blogg and Second-Coxswain Balls, of Cromer. (Photograph taken after the Annual Meeting, in London, on 20th April.). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Polish Yacht Jan-z-Kolna
POLISH YACHT AGROUND Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At one minute past nine on the morning of Tuesday the 24th September, 1963, the honorary secretary received a message that a large yacht had gone aground in the vicinity of Barrow No. 6 buoy and...
The Folio Society
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Starling, of Yarmouth
Numerous vessels were at anchor under Speeton Cliffs on the 5th Feb., when a gale of wind sprang up from the S.S.E., accompanied by a very heavy sea, and one of them, the schooner Starling, of Yarmouth, was seen approach- ing Filey with...
The Motor Cabin Cruiser Aloha
DRIFTING FOR TWO DAYS Margate, Kent.—In the morning of the 28th of August, 1947, information came from the British Steamer Hill- crest Park through the North Foreland Radio and the coastguard that the motor cabin cruiser Aloha, of Lowestoft,...
Eric Ward Coxswain of the St.Ives Lifeboat
Eric Ward, Coxswain of the St Ives lifeboat pictured with one of his paintings on display at a London gallery. - View image in PDF
Eric, who only took up painting seriously two years ago was appointed Coxswain in May 1989.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs