LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Royal Air Force Launch No. 1386
Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 3.30 on the morning of the 8th August, 1961, the honorary secretary was asked by the sergeant in charge of Royal Air Force launch No. 1386 if the life-boat could put himself and his crew on board their launch, which...
The Royal Air Force Launch No. 1653
Ramsey, Isle of Man. At 4.1 on the afternoon of the 28th August, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Royal Air Force launch No. 1653 had broken down off Jurby Head. At 4.15 the life-boat Thomas Corbett was launched...
Summary of the Year's Work
(Including those in which no service was rendered.
Launches before the outbreak of war on 3rd September - - - 266
Launches after the outbreak of war ...
Category: Annual Reports
New Members of the Committee of Management
SIR Charles Baring, Bt, Colonel F. F.
B. St. George, C.V.O., and Mr. Norman E. Wales have joined the Committee of Management of the Institution.
Sir Charles Baring is the son of Sir Godfrey Baring who...
Category: Committee
Vixen
On the 9th April the small steam-tug the Vixen, of Shields, was ob- served at anchor in a heavy sea from .E.N.E., with a flag of distress flying. The Cromer Lifeboat, the Benjamin Band Cabbett, was launched through a heavy surf to her...
Tender Florence
LYTHAM.—While the heavy gale was blowing on the 7th October, the steam tender Florence;, of Preston, was seen to part one of her chains and collide with another steamer, damaging both vessels.
The sea being very high, at...
Notes of the Quarter
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 155 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to 31st December, 1956 80,578 Notes of the Quarter THE year 1956 was one in which greater...
Category: Articles
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
Centenaries of Life-Boat Stations
Presentation of Vellums signed by the Prince of Wales.
DURING the present year the Institution has presented Vellums to thirteen Stations which have been in existence for a century and over. Reports of seven of these...
Category: Articles
A Yacht (2)
Margate, Kent.—2nd June, 1938. A signal had been hoisted by the Girdler Lightvessel, but the life-boat found that it was to announce firing practice.
She then searched for a missing yacht, but could not find her. The yacht...