LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Ex-Trinity House Launch Upway
Walton and Frinton, Essex. At two o'clock on the afternoon of the 21st October, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a boat appeared to be drifting north with the ebb tide. As a boat with two people on board had been...
New Ways of Raising Money
A VARIATION of the old game of musical chairs was played at the eleventh birthday party of the Hornchurch Sea Cadets early this year. A pot was passed round a circle of people. The pot had to be kept moving but when the music stoppe'd...
Category: Donations
The Right Hon. The Lord Winster, P.C., K.C.M.G.
THE RIGHT HON. THE LORD WINSTER, P.C., K.C.M.G., died on the 8th June, 1961, at the age of 76. He joined the Committee of Management of the Insti- tution in 1932, and was elected a Vice- President in 1955.
He was at one...
Category: Obituaries
Kate, of Ipswich
On the 17th January, during a strong breeze and foggy weather, a vessel was seen anchored in a very dangerous position to windward of the harbour, and as she appeared to be slowly driving on the rocks, the Manchester Branch life-boat,...
Mary Stewart, of Greenock
SEPTEMBER 20TH. - WESTON - SUPERMARE SOMERSET. At 5.30 in the afternoon a message came from the Croyde coastguard, which he had received from the S.S.
Basiris, that a steamer was ashore on Weston Sands. A north-north-west...
Democratic Republic of Germany: Poel Is One of East Germany's 179M Lifeboats; Speed 10 Knots the Service Also Has Two Rescue Cruisers and Inflatable Inshore Life
Democratic Republic of Germany: Poel is one of East Germany's 17.9m lifeboats; speed 10 knots. The service also has two rescue cruisers and inflatable inshore lifeboats.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Training Ketch Warspite and Sea Hog
Cullercoats, Northumberland. At 2.55 on the afternoon of the 4th of October, 1959, the police at Whitley Bay told the honorary secretary that a ketch was in difficulties off Table Rocks in Whitley Bay. Eight minutes later the life-boat Isaac...
Birte, of Copenhagen
OCTOBER 4TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 6.35 in the morning, the Deal coastguard reported a steamer aground on the Goodwin Sands. An easterly wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. The motor life-boat Charles Dibdin (Civil Service No. 2) was...
Lifeboats In Action
THE LIFEBOAT Atlantic 21 lifeboat B- 589 James Burgess Funding: Gift of Mr and Mrs A Burgess THE CREW Helmsman Andrew Coe Crew members Philip Brenchley Adam Cowell WALMER LIFEBOAT STATION Established: First established 1856; closed 1912.<...
Category: Services
The G.P.O. Jokes
THE honorary secretary of the Porth- dinllaen life-boat station has been both surprised and amused, on receiv- ing the copy of an agreement for a telephone, to find his occupation given, as " prevention of life from...
Category: Articles