LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Lady Grey
The same Life-boat was launched five days later in conjunction with her consort, the Robert and Mary Ellis, to the help of the s.s. Lady Grey of West Hartlepool, which had stranded on Whitby Bocks about half a mile from the West Pier head....
The S.S. Lady Louisa
On the 13th February, in response to signals from the Formby light vessel, the steam Life-boat Duke of Northumberland put off and found the s.s. Lady Louisa, of and for Liverpool from Fleetwood, laden with gravel, on the edge of Taylor's...
Little Old Lady
Hastings, Sussex. At 5.52 on the evening of the 11th of September, 1960, the coastguard told the coxswain that a fishing boat, Little Old Lady, was broken down off the De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill. The life-boat M.T.C. was launched at 6.4 in...
Shoreham's Lady Bee Marina
An open day which raised £1,600 at Short ham's Lady Bee Marina attracted crowds of people who enjoyed boat trips, a lifeboat demonstration, a fashion show, a fencing display and not least Liz Naldrett's tantalising shellfish.<... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lady Norton Mbe,
December 1996 Lady Norton MBE, a life vice president of the Institution. Lady Norton was elected to the committee of management in 1975 and served as a member of the fundraising committee from 1975 to 1985. In 1982 Lady Norton was appointed...
Category: Obituaries
Miss Clare Francis Mbe Guest Speaker at the Presentation of Awards Meeting Ended Her Speech By Making a Surprise Presentation of Her Own on Behalf of the Who
Miss Clare Francis, MBE, guest speaker at the presentation of awards meeting, ended her speech by making a surprise presentation of her own. On behalf of the whole crew of ADC Accutrac, the yacht which she skippered in the Whitbread... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Dan Beard, of New Orleans (1)
DECEMBER 10TH. - FISHGUARD, AND ST. DAVID’S, PEMBROKESHIRE. At 4.46 in the afternoon a message was received from the coastguard that a vessel had sent up red flares about seven miles west of Strumble Head. A moderate north-west wind was...
The Merchant Shipping (Life-Saving Appliances) Act, 1888, and the Rules Framed Under Its Provisions
OUR readers may remember that a recent number of this Journal contained an article on the Report of the Select Committee of the House of Commons on Saving Life at Sea. The recommendations of that Committee were in due course embodied in a...
Category: Articles
Three Royal Air Force Aeroplanes (1)
AUG. 8TH. - ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK, AND WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX.
A message had been received from the Colchester Air Observers’ Post, through the coastguard, that three Royal Air Force aeroplanes had crashed into the sea,...