LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Weymouth Ladies' Guild
Weymouth ladies' guild raised £700 for branch funds at its annual wine and cheese party in the Springfield Room at Devenish Brewery on April I . The Mayor of Weymouth and Portland, Mrs Joyce Litschi, presented an oil painting of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Ocean Venturer
LIFE-BOAT AT BAR At i p.m. on i8th November, 1965, the motor vessel Ocean Venturer was reported to be at sea in conditions which were deteriorating. The life-boat Mary Am Hepworth was launched at i .20 in a fresh easterly breeze and a heavy...
Jane Hughes
PIBL.—A schooner was observed at daylight, on the 28th October, in a dangerous position midway between Piel and Fleetwood; she had a signal of distress flying, and was apparently drifting helplessly in the heavy gale which was then blowing...
Postscript (From Page 119)
the final fruition of this modern policy.
I recall a conversation I had with Cunninghame-Graham in the early days of my lifeboat career, when he said, 'It is not small boats, as at present, stationed in the bights, but...
Category: Articles
Past and Present
50 years ago From THE LIFE-BOAT WAR BULLETIN No. 1, September 1940 SUSPENSION OF THE LIFE-BOAT JOURNAL Owing to the need for the strictest economy in the use of paper the Institution's journal The Lifeboat" stopped publication after...
Category: Articles
The Rescue of Three Fishermen. A Gallant Service off Folkestone
A Gallant Service off Folkestone.
ON the night of Sunday, 13th December last, a strong S.W. gale was blowing off Folkestone, with a very heavy sea and driving rain. The day had been fine, and early in the afternoon the...
Category: Services
Frederick Warne
THE BOOK OF SEA RESCUE Laurence F Gilding An authoritative account of all the organisations formed to help those in danger of drowning, with exciting ac- counts of some famous rescues. 10s 6d OBSERVER'S BOOK OF SHIPS Frank E Dodman A...
Category: Advertisement
David and John, of Montrose
About 3 A.M. on the 25th November the Mary Hartley life-boat was launched, and pro- ceeded, in tow of a steam-tug, down the river to Buddonness, to. the rescue of the crew of a vessel reported to be in distress.
At...
Pictured at the Presentation of the Red Cross Awards
Pictured at the presentation of the Red Cross awards are (from left to right) David Wyatt of the British Red Cross Society), Staff Officer General Duties Richard Perks, John Burke-Gaffney (Director General of the British Red Cross Society)... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Eaglescliffe Hall
NOVEMBER 12TH. - PORTHDINLLAEN, CAERNARVONSHIRE. The S.S. Eaglescliffe Hall, of Montreal, had been reported drifting, and the life-boat put out twice, but she could not find her. The news came through later that the crew had been rescued by...