LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Edith, Lady Bird, O.B.E.
EDITH. LADY BIRD, O.B.E., died on the 1st June, 1961. She joined the Com- mittee of the Central London Branch of the Ladies Life-boat Guild in 1933, was Deputy Chairman in 1948 and Chairman from 1957 to 1959.
She was...
Category: Obituaries
Special Committee Meeting. 19th March
Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., M.P., V.P., in the Chair.
Read the following Report of the Chief In- spector and District Inspector of Life-boats on their inquiries into the circumstances attending the accidents to the...
Category: Committee
Sarah's Cash Concert
Rising country-rock star Sarah Jory (left) played a special solo acoustic concert on 6 October in aid of the Wells lifeboat-raising £1,700.
Sarah, who has been gigging non-stop in the UK and abroad for the past five... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Fishing Boat
On the 16th April, a fishing-boat was seen approaching the shore with signals of distress flying, her crew finding it impossible to make the land through the heavy surf. The Withemsea life-boat was at once launched to their help, and...
Bookshelf
Lifeboat station histories The History of the Penmon and Beaumaris Lifeboats by Jeff Morris published by the author The northern end of the Menai Straits is one of the areas where changing times and use of the sea has led to considerable...
Category: Articles
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Hazardous as two casualties are brought to safety The rescue of two persons trapped at the end of a breakwater by heavy breaking seas has led to David Porritt, helmsman of Staithes and Runswick Atlantic 21 class lifeboat being awarded the...
Lifeboat Services
West Division Knockdown JUST AS Lytham-St Anne's lifeboat was being moored after returning from exercise at sea on Saturday afternoon, June 6, 1981, Liverpool Coastguard informed the station honorary secretary that an unconfirmed report...
Category: Services
Cromer June 20 1986:
Cromer, June 20, 1986: Cromer townspeople donated generously towards Ruby and Arthur Reed II, the station's brand new 47ft Tyne class lifeboat, and it was therefore fitting that so many should be there, joined by holidaymakers and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Captain H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh, E.G., R.N.
FROM the moment that Her Majesty's fine frigate the Galatea* left our shores in the spring of last year, under the command of the youthful Duke of Edinburgh, to visit our colonies in the southern hemisphere, and to convey to them in...
Category: Articles
Flying Consul
Bridlington, Yorkshire - At 7.10 p.m.
on 1st June, 1968, the coastguard reported that the motor cruiser Flying Consul with four adults and three children on board had broken down three miles north of...