LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Bar
APRIL 17TH. - NEWHAVEN, SUSSEX, AND WALMER, KENT. The French trawler Bar had gone ashore near Beachy Head, but she refloated without help, and the Newhaven life-boat returned to her station. The trawler had been reported to Walmer as ashore...
Obituary
IT is with deep regret that we have to record the death of Admiral Sir Richard Vesey Hamilton, G.O.B., which took place, at the age of 83, at Chalfont St. Peter, Bucks, on Wednesday, Sep- tember 18th.
Sir Richard Hamilton...
Category: Obituaries
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Cromer, Norfolk. At i.io a.m.
on 16th January, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that they had received a message from the North Haisbro lightvessel that red flares had been sighted in a position six...
Some Ways of Raising Money
Carol singers were out in force before Christmas. In the London area, members of the Mermaid Committee raised £40.41, and Frances Brace with a group of her friends from Forms 5 and 6 of Godolphin and Latymer School collected £93.46...
Category: Donations
Gifts from Crews
THE Porthdinllaen Motor Life-boat saved the French yacht Rose Marine and her three occupants during a strong N.E. gale with a rough sea on the 15th September, 1927. Out of the salvage money received for their services the Crew have given a...
Category: Donations
New Films Available
Three new films are now available to branches. All are in colour and 16 m.m.
sound.
One of the new films. From Baltimore to Littlehampton, which runs for 12 minutes, tells the story of how the 44-foot...
Category: Articles
Contents
/~* .— y» x ft. 4- Q Notes of the Quarter, by Patrick Howarth Ill Nigel Dixon: 'We give thanks for his life' 112 •17 i - 7--r - 7T Lifeboat Services 113 Volume XLVI r iit-r-ifipr- A,f ~l Clacton-on-Sea: Celebration of a...
Category: Contents
Inaugural Ceremonies of Motor Life-Boats
Fowey (Cornwall), Weymouth (Dorset), Thurso (Caithness), and Stornoway (Island of Lewis) DURING September four new Motor Life-boats were formally inaugurated, those at Fowey, Weymouth, Thurso and Stornoway. Thus, with the South- end-on-Sea...
Category: Inaugurations
The Great Storm
THE great storm of the 31st of January —1st of February, 1953, has had a chronicler of distinction in Mr. J.
Lennox Kerr.* Mr. Kerr has recorded the happen- ings at sea around our coasts on those two extraordinary days when...
Category: Articles
End of An Era:
End of an era: on the retirement of Coxswain David Cox of Wells I above) til the end of August, the station was without / member of the Cox family fur the first time in three generations. David Cox was a member of the crew for 43 vears and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs