LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Rachel and Fishing Boats
FISHING BOAT ESCORTED OVER BAR Wbitby, Yorkshire. At 9.10 on the morning of the 16th January, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the weather was likely to become worse, and that an easterly gale was forecast as...
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 7th October, 1886.
Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., M.P., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the Minutes of the pre- vious Meeting. Also read those of the Finance and Correspondence, and Wreck...
Category: Committee
Hartside and Kathleen
FLAMBOROUGH.—At noon on the 27th March a telephone message was received from Bridlington asking that the Life-boat might take provisions to the steamer Hartside, of Newcastle, which was lying off Sewerby. A gale of wind was blowing from the...
Gallilee, Victory and Provider
Whitby, Yorkshire.—The fishing fleet put to sea early in the morning of the llth March, but the weather got bad, and by 11 A.M. all but three boats had returned. A strong east breeze was blowing, with a heavy sea and heavy showers of snow....
Mizpah and Silver Lane
Early on the morning of the 10th March three local motor fishing cobles put to sea to haul crab pots. The wind was squally from the S.E., and the sea was rough. The weather continued to grow worse, with heavy rain showers. At 10.30 A.M. the...
Below Left - Committee Members of Dartford
Below left - committee members of Dartford and district branch dress up and rattle collecting buckets at the Dartford Show. The colourful bunch managed to raise £ 114 for lifeboat funds on the day.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Adventure, George and Margaret and Louisa Twyzell
Blyth, and Newbiggin, Northumber- land.—At 7.32 on the morning of the 10th of May, 1955, the coastguard telephoned the Blyth life-boat station to say a man at Cambois had reported that a fishing coble appeared to be in difficulties in...
Notes and News
ELSEWHERE in this issue will be found full accounts of services performed by the Life-boats at Lowestoft, Gorles- ton, Spurn and Stromness, for each of which the Committee have made special awards of the Institution's medals for...
Category: Articles
Without Comment
EXTRACT from the deck log from a life- boat station: "Chief inspector of life-boats and district inspector visited life-boat station. Dull and hazy.".
Category: Articles
Mr Phil Parish,
Mr Phil Parish, secretary of Hitchin and district brnahc since 1988 and committee member since 1985. He was awarded the Silver badge in 1998..
Category: Obituaries