LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Launcher Will Soon Be 100
Mr. George Carey, of Speldhurst, near Tunbridge Wells, Kent, who was a launcher at the old Littlestone life-boat station between 1889 and 1895, will be 100 on 27th October, 1968.
It is recalled that, with his brother who...
Category: Articles
Isle of Wight Coxswain
COXSWAIN WALTER O. COTTON, who died on the 23rd of May, 1948, at the age of 71, served at four life-boat stations in the Isle of Wight. He began his life-boat service in 1898 as a member of the crew at Brighstone Grange, of which his father...
Category: Obituaries
Sea Gull, of Dublin
AUGUST 12TH. - WICKLOW. At four in the morning a yacht was reported to be dragging her anchor on to a lee shore, off the breakwater. A moderate north-easterly gale was blowing, with a heavy sea. The life-boat crew assembled and when distress...
New Ways of Raising Money
Money-raising for the R.N.L.I, sometimes begins accidentally, as Mr. S.J. Roberts discovered at the Earls Court Radio Show in September. Mr, Roberts, a member of the Institution's staff, is also honorary secretary of the Gauge i Model...
Category: Donations
The Venezuelan Destroyer Nueva Esparta
Barrow, Lancashire.—At 12.40 on the afternoon of the 4th of December, 1953, the life-boat coxswain received a link telephone call from the Venezuelan destroyer Nueva Esparta, which was undergoing gunnery trials in the Irish Sea, that a...
Mrs J B Ritchie President of Ramsey Branch and Ladies' Guild and Donor of Ramsey's 37Ft Oakley Lifeboat James Ball Ritchie and Port St.Mary's 54Ft Arun the Gough Ritchie Was Awarded Hon
Mrs J. B. Ritchie, president of Ramsey branch and ladies' guild and donor of Ramsey's 37ft Oakley lifeboat James Ball Ritchie and Port St Mary's 54ft Arun The Gough Ritchie, was awarded honorary life governorship of the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Boy Claude
The Life-boat Kentwell was launched during a moderate S.W. breeze and moderate sea on the 14th December, and saved the crew of four hands of the trawler Buy Claude, of Lowestoft, which had stranded on the north extension pier whilst outward...
Reliance, of Whtiby
On the 11th February, the Yarmouth surf life-boat went off in reply to signals of distress from a vessel on the North Beach. A heavy gale was blowing from the S.S.E. at the time. When the life- boat arrived alongside, the sea was making a...
The Motor Fishing Coble Isabella
Filey, Yorkshire.—The local motor fishing coble Isabella put to sea on the morning of the 28th of November, 1949. The weather was bad and, as it began to worsen, the life-boat The Cuttle was launched at 11.30. A moderate northerly breeze was...
Raymond Taylor Mbe,
Raymond Taylor MBE, Cullercoats branch president, Raymond first served the Cullercoats crew when he was just 14 and later went on to become second coxswain and senior helmsman of the lifeboat.
Following his retirement at 50...
Category: Obituaries