LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Michael Judge Mbe
Member, Order of the British Empire Michael Judge MBE Whitstable lifeboat station. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Dave Lee Travis
Dave Lee Travis draws the winning ticket of the Renault 5 car competition from a drum in a car boot on Renault's stand at the Earl's Court Motor Show. With him are (I) Peter Holness, membership secretary, and (r) Cdr Ted Pritchard... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Admiralty Survey Vessel Medusa
St. Ives, Cornwall. At 5.47 p.m. on 13th September, 1965, the coastguard reported that a skin diver was missing from the fishing boat Bonnie Lass, of St.
Ives. At 6.10 the life-boat Edgar, George, Orlando and Eva Child was...
Last Year 10 Pupils Average Age 10 Years from Danley Middle School Halfway Sheerness Arranged a Sponsored Marathon Badminton Match When They Played Non-St
Last year 10 pupils, average age 10 years, from Danley Middle School, Halfway, Sheerness, arranged a sponsored marathon badminton match when they played non-stop for six hours and raised £10 for the R.N.L.I. Here, one of the boys who... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Death of Two Station Honorary Secretaries
BY the death of Mr. John S. Potter, of Clacton-on-Sea on the 10th of Decem- ber, 1950, and Mr. A. M. Gill, of Weymouth, on the 19th of January, 1951, the Institution has lost two honorary secretaries of stations who have served it for many...
Category: Obituaries
Three Fishing Cobles
In the month of March the Whitburn life-boat was launched to the assistance of the crews of three fish- ing cobles, each with 3 men on board, which were caught in a strong easterly wind, a high surf running on the beach at the time.
Boy Charlie
JANUARY 29TH. - TORBAY, DEVON.
During the afternoon the motor life-boat George Shee was launched for exercise in a N.N.W. gale, with a rough sea. As she returned to her moorings at about 3.30 P.M.
she saw...
Brenton, of Fowey
The schooner Brenton, of Fowey, was observed with signals of distress flying, on the Skull Martin Rock, near Ballywalter, on the 4th December. The wind was blow- ing very fresh from N. to N.E., and a heavy sea was running at the time, render...
Union Crystal
Union Crystal sinks JUST BEFORE 1915 on Wednesday, November 16, 1977, the honorary secretaries of both Sennen Cove and St Ives lifeboat stations were informed by Lands End Coastguard that the 499-ton coaster Union Crystal was in trouble 12...
Maren
WEYMOUTH.—On the morning of the 1st November several vessels were reported to be driving out of Portland Boads towards the shore, and the crew of the Agnes Harriet Life-boat were summoned, and remained in readiness in case their services...