LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Rowing Boat
Clacton-on-Sea, and Walton and Frin- ton, Essex. At 5.10 on the afternoon of the 4th November, 1961, an antici- patory message was received at Clacton from the coastguard that two men in a local rowing boat were overdue. They had set out...
The Rev. J. B. White, President of the Appledore Branch
By the death on 25th July last of the Rev. J. B. White, President of the Appledore Branch, the Institution has lost one of its oldest and most devoted friends. In 1897 Mr. White became a member of the Committee of the Branch, so that he has...
Category: Obituaries
The New Deputy Chief Inspector of Life-Boats
COMMANDER S. W. F. BENNETTS, D.S.O., D.S.C., R.N. (Retd.), was ap- pointed Deputy Chief Inspector of Life-boats on 1st of July. He was previously District Inspector (General), in which appointment he came to the Institution on 16th of...
Category: Articles
The Lifeboat Service—Past and Present
Years Ago The following is an extract from the speech by Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt (Chairman of the RNLI, 1923-56) at the 1935 Annual General Meeting and reported in THE LIFEBOAT of June 1935.
and then had to go on to New...
Category: Articles
Letters
Whitby pulling lifeboat The photograph of Whitby pulling lifeboat Robert and Ellen Robson published in the autumn issue of THE LIFEBOAT made me wonder whether she was the one that started my interest in the lifeboat service in 1919.
Category: Correspondence
The Steamers Oxshott, Deerwood, Gallois, Taara, Aberhill and Paddy Hendly (2)
GOLD AND SILVER MEDAL SERVICES AT CROMER AND GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON AUGUST 6TH. - 7TH. - CROMER, GT.
YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, AND SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK, AND LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK. On the night of the 5th of August,, 1941, a...
Yacht Tigris
YACHT AGROUND Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 5.15 in the evening of the 14th of September, 1947, the Lymington police telephoned that a yacht was in distress near Warren Beach, and the motor life-boat Hearts of Oak, on temporary duty at the...
A Boat (6)
AUG. 20TH. - BLACKPOOL, LANCASHIRE. At 7.30P.M. a message was received from the police stating that some boys in an open boat were missing and had been last seen drifting to sea. A moderate E.N.E. breeze was blowing. The sea was smooth. The...
Frej (1)
Whitehills, and Buckie, Banffshire.— While bound from Narvik to Working- ton, with a cargo of iron ore, and a crew of 28, the Swedish steamer Frej, of Stockholm, met heavy weather and sheltered in Banff Bay. At 3.20 on the morning...