LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Fisherman's Appeal
As reported in the " Services of the Life-boats," the motor life-boat at Stornoway, on the Island of Lewis, in the Hebrides, was called out shortly before midnight on 14th February, to the help of two fishing boats off Tolsta Head,...
Category: Poetry
Books for Review
Laurence Gilding is to be warmly congratulated on successfully carrying out the tasks he set himself in his new work The Book of Sea Rescue (Frederick Warne, los. 6d.).
He describes the work of ±e life-boat service, of...
Category: Articles
The Weather of 1886. Abridged from the Daily News, 1st January, 1887
The weather of last year was, in some respects, like a well-constructed story.
Beginning in a tame and uneventful fashion, the interest gradually increased as time wore on, until at the close of the period we were...
Category: Articles
Lowestoft: a Trimaran on Passage from Wells to Ramsgate Was Reported Making Water Fast Sunday August 6 Lowestoft's 47Ft Watson Lifeboat Frederick Edward Crick
Lowestoft: A trimaran on passage from Wells to Ramsgate was reported making water fast on Sunday August 6. Lowestoft's 47ft Watson lifeboat Frederick Edward Crick launched at 0554 and reached the casualty at 0750. Three people were taken... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
(Below) There's Still Brass to Polish
(below) There's still brass to polish, and vents this size need industrial-size tins of Brasso. - View image in PDF
This time Dave Cox and Chris Risley work up some warmth…. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
One for the enthusiasts
The 2014 edition of the Lifeboat Enthusiasts’ Society Handbook, a comprehensive guide to the RNLI fleet past and present, is now available. Get your copy direct from the Society, priced at £6.50.
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Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the November, 1939, Meeting of the Committee of Management
Launches 111. Lives Rescued 124.
Services to vessels in distress through enemy action are marked • •• Other services arising out of the zcor are marked •.
November Meeting.
Walton and...
Category: Services
An Aeroplane (1)
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, and Walton and Frinton. Essex.—17th July, 1939. A message had been received from the coastguard that an aeroplane had crashed into the sea between Walton Pier and Gunfleet Lighthouse and that a man had come down from...
An Aeroplane (2)
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, and Walton and Frinton. Essex.—17th July, 1939. A message had been received from the coastguard that an aeroplane had crashed into the sea between Walton Pier and Gunfleet Lighthouse and that a man had come down from...
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