LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
30,000Th Member for Offshore
Roger Tomkins from Norwich has become the 30,000th person to join the RNLI's membership grade for sea users. Offshore. To mark the occasion, marketing manager David Brann presented a delighted Roger, accompanied by Sarah Shadbolt, with a... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Armed Trawler
DECEMBER 23RD. - FENIT, CO. KERRY.
An armed trawler, 70 miles away, was reported to be making for Berehaven, with her fore-hold full of water. She could not be found, but it was learnt later that she reached safety. -...
A Trawler
FEBRUARY 5TH. - KILMORE, CO. WEXFORD.
A trawler had been attacked by German aeroplanes, with bombs and machineguns, but the life-boat found nothing, and the Coningbeg Lightship reported that the trawler had gone on her way....
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JANUARY 20TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA.
ESSEX. Clouds of smoke had been seen, but the life-boat could find nothing. The cold was severe, and the life-boat returned covered with ice from stem to stern. - Rewards, £7 14s....
The S.S. Jamaica Progress
AU G U S T 1 S T . - B A R R A I S L A N D , HEBRIDES. At 2.30 A.M. a telegram was received from the coastguard at Kyle that a ship’s boat under sail with men on board had been seen at 9.30 P.M. the night before, five miles from Barra Head....
An Steamer
NOVEMBER 16TH. - ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK.
An unknown steamer, which had been attacked by enemy aeroplanes, had signalled for a doctor, and with Col. G. D.
Franklin, C.I.E., O.B.E., late I.M.S. on board, the...
A Fishing Fleet Calendar.
Mr. H. Jenkins, of Lowestoft, whose life-boat photographs will be familiar to readers of the Institution s journal, has published a "fishing fleet" calendar for 1943, with 14 beautiful photographs of the sea. Price 43. 6d.,...
Category: Articles
Brionie
APRIL 22ND. - SELSEY, SUSSEX. During the evening the yacht Brionieran aground two miles W.S.W. of Selsey Bill, while on passage from Lymington to Newhaven with a crew of three. A N.W. breeze was blowing, with a moderately rough sea.
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JUNE 7TH. - BARRA ISLAND, HEBRIDES. An object had been reported floating in the sea, which appeared to have prongs, but it was found to be the carcass of a bullock with the feet upwards. - Rewards, £9 8s. 6d.
Naval Motor Boats
SEPTEMBER 22ND. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. Naval motor boats had been reported in need of help, but with the help of a tug, and escorted by a motor launch, they reached Harwich. - Rewards, £4 3s.