LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Yarmouth Life-Boats. (Continued from "The Life-Boat," August, 1918, p. 233.)
THE night will long be remembered for the almost unparalleled violence of the gale which swept over England, leaving a track of ruin and devastation such as is rarely seen in our temperate climate.
In Gorleston itself the...
Category: Services
H.M. Trawler Caulonia
BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT HASTINGS MARCH 31ST. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX, AND DUNGENESS, KENT.
At 2.15 in the morning a message came from Dover asking the lifeboat to launch to the help of a vessel 3,000 yards to the south of...
February (1)
DOWNINGS, CO. DONEGAL. While out fishing off Innisboffin Island on the 27th of November, 1942, the motor fishing boat Star of Hope, of Downings, foundered and sank while her herring nets were being hauled, and a fresh north-west breeze was...
Category: Services
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 9th February, 1939.
Sir GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the chair.
Resolved that the St. Ives, Cornwall, station be temporarily closed.
Resolved that a joint meeting of the boat and...
Category: Committee
The Princess Flies to Wales. New Life-Boats Are Named
ON two sunshining days in May Prin- cess Marina, Duchess of Kent and President of the Institution, named new life-boats which will serve two stations on the Welsh coast, Llandudno in North Wales and St. David's in the south.
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Category: Inaugurations
Scottish Lifeboat Council Annual General Meeting
THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the Scottish Lifeboat Council was held in The Freemason's Hall, Edinburgh, on May 23 this year. Captain Alexander Ramsay of Mar, chairman of the Executive Committee of the Council, was in the chair at the...
Category: Meetings
Classified Advertisements
Wordage: £5.50 per single column centimetre (minimum charge £16.50). NB: The minimum space of 3cm takes about 45 words at 15 words per cm.
With illustration: £12 per single column centimetre (minimum charge...
Category: Advertisement
Some Ways of Raising Money
Carol singers were out in force before Christmas. In the London area, members of the Mermaid Committee raised £40.41, and Frances Brace with a group of her friends from Forms 5 and 6 of Godolphin and Latymer School collected £93.46...
Category: Donations
Crew Thrown Out of IRB
Two brothers, Christopher and John Cook, who formed the crew of the Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, inshore rescue boat, and a 64 year old retired doctor, Dr.
Harrison Broadbent, have received letters of appreciation signed by the...
Category: Services
Peep Into the Past
100 years ago The summer 1906 issue of the Journal featured an old sea dogliterally - in a report on the Clacton lifeboat, which went to the aid of a wrecked schooner Renner. The schooner's captain had been reluctant to leave his beloved...
Category: Articles