LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fast-acting relief
How do you keep a 24/7 search-and-rescue service running when a coxswain is taking a well-earned holiday? What about when a family emergency arises for the station mechanic? Or illness strikes? Meet the team who answer the call for...
Category: Articles
War and the Life-Boat Service
THE War, the greatest in which a nation has ever been involved, has entirely absorbed public interest, and the purses which have been so generously opened to the innumerable appeals in connexion with the War have, almost of necessity, been...
Category: Articles
Belinda
Ramsgate, Kent. At 12.50 on the afternoon of the 27th of September, 1958, the watchman at the east pier informed the honorary secretary that a motor boat had broken down a mile and a half off Ramsgate. At 1.4 the life-boat Michael and Lily...
The United States' Life-Saving Service
IN the Number (115) of the Life-boat Journal for February, 1880, there appeared a brief description of the means provided for the Pre- servation of Life from Shipwreck in the United States of America, not only on their sea coasts but on the...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat Work on the Goodwin Sands
ON the night of the storm the coxswain of the life-boat entered the watch-house, clad in Ms black oilskin garments, and glittering with salt-water from top to too.
" There will be more work for us before long,...
Category: Articles
Having Been Given a Monster Potato By a Customer the Landlord of the Sir Douglas Haig Effingham Rod Davis and His Wife Jean Held a Competition to Guess How
Having been given a monster potato by a customer, the landlord of The Sir Douglas Haig, Effingham, Rod Davis, and his wife, Jean, held a competition to guess how many bags of crisps could be made from it. At lOp a guess, £23.60 was soon... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Martell Cognac
MARTELL The spirit of Tradition Michel Martell, the seventh generation of the Martell family to head this prestigious company, founded in 1715, was in England when the announcement was made to phase out the traditional Naval rum ration in...
Category: Advertisement
The Boulmer Women
THE thirty-five women launchers of Boulmer were represented at the Annual Meeting by Miss N. Stephenson, the daughter of the Coxswain, and Mrs. B.
Stanton, the wife of the Second Coxswain. During their stay in London they...
Category: Articles
Walking the Pier:
Walking the pier: Lennie Denton walked up and down Southend Pier for 24 hours to raise money for a new winch to launch Southend lifeboat. He aimed to beat the world 24-hour walk record of 133 miles 21 yards but despite his cracking pace he... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
St. Helens
JAN. 23RD. - TORBAY, DEVON. During the morning the auxiliary ketch St. Helens, of London, broke from her moorings in Brixham Outer Harbour in a severe N.W. gale, and drove ashore on the beach near the life-boat station. A motor trawler got...