LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Rocquaine
St. Ives, Cornwall.—At 9.40 in the morning of the 24th of April, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that the S.S.
Rocquaine, of Guernsey, had reported an explosion on board. She was on fire, and her master had been badly burnt...
The S.S. Lyonesse
In a dense fog on the afternoon of the 23rd June the Red Star liner Gothland, from Montreal to Rotterdam, with passengers and a cargo of wheat, ran ashore on the Crim Rocks. Information of the casualty was at once transmitted by means of...
Power-Driven Life-Boats
IT may be that the great war that is now raging will be known to posterity as the " Petrol War," from the fact that petrol engines have been employed for warlike purposes to an extent that was never even dreamed of by those who...
Category: Articles
Robbe
SICK MAN LANDED FROM YACHT St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 11.20 on the night of Thursday the 8th of August, 1963, the Area Commissioner of the St.
John Ambulance Brigade asked the life-boat to take a sick man off the yacht...
Belle
HAUXLEY, NORTHUMBERLAND.—A flag of distress was seen flying from the fishing fishing smack Belle, of Blyth, in the Coquet Eoads, at 3.30 P.M., on the 13th April, during stormy weather, the wind blowing very strong from the E.S.E., and a high...
Doris
St. Ives, Cornwall. At 8.30 on the evening of the 14th of July, 1958, the honorary secretary was informed that a small fishing boat had engine trouble two miles from St. Ives Head. At 9.3 the life-boat Edgar. George, Orlando and Eva Child...
Crescence
St. Ives, Cornwall. At 11.35 on the morning of the 3rd of September, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secietary that the motor vessel Crescence of Rochester was aground off the old pier buoy in St. Ives Bay. At 11.42 the life-boat...
Sirena II
Swanage, Dorset - At 10.38 a.m. on 5th June, 1966, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht had been dismasted and was firing flares two miles south east of St. Alban's Head. The life-boat R.L.P. was launched at 10.46 in a...
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Friday, 16th September, 1921.
Sir GODFREY BAKING, Bt., in the Chair.
Reported the death of Admiral of the Fleet, The Marquis of Milford Haven, P.C., G.C.B., G.C.V.O., K.C.M.G., and of Major Sir E. F....
Category: Committee
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Ladies' Guild Held An 'After Dinner at Eight' Wine and Savouries Evening In June at the Home of Mrs Margaret Adams (I) at Herring Fleet St.O
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston ladies' guild held an 'After Dinner at Eight' wine and savouries evening in June at the home of Mrs Margaret Adams (I.) at Herring fleet, St Olaves, to celebrate the presentation of a fund-raising... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs