LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Late Commander Thomas Holmes, R.N.
WE record, with great regret, the death on 20th September, at the age of eighty-one, of Commander Thomas Holmes, R.N., late chief inspector of life-boats. Commander Holmes was a Norfolk man, hailing from Morning- thorpe Manor House, Long...
Category: Obituaries
H.R.H. The Duchess of Kent's Presidential Address
THE meeting to-day has a twofold purpose; to hear about the work of the Institution during 1946; and to pay our tribute to the gallant self-sacrifice of The Mumbles life-boat crew, for whose families we all have the deepest...
Category: Meetings
Fishing Boats (2)
MAY 15TH. - FILEY, YORKSHIRE.
Several fishing boats were out, some crabbing and some fishing, and as at 10 in the morning three of the boats could not be seen from the coastguard’s look-out it was decided to search for them...
Obituaries
IT is with deep regret that we record the following deaths: December, 1985 Coxswain William Crowley, who joined the Fenit, Co Kerry, lifeboat crew in 1928. He was bowman from 1936 to 1938, second coxswain from 1938 to 1942 and from 1945 to...
Category: Obituaries
Usko
1 It was reported at about 6.30 A,M. on the 27th November that a vessel was ashore on the Goodwin Sands.
A fresh W.N.W. breeze was blowing at the time. The Life-boat Civil Service No. 4 at once put off, and found the...
A Sailing Dinghy
Lowestoft, Suffolk-At 10.59 a.m.
on llth May, 1968, the honorary secretary learnt that a sailing dinghy with two people on board was being carried away by the ebb tide and appeared to be out of control. The life-boat...
Evergreen
Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin - At 4.20 p.m. on 2nd June, 1969, information was received that a yacht had capsized off Blackrock.
At 4.29 the life-boat John F. Kennedy slipped her moorings. It was low water. She came up with...
Crystal River
Aberdeen - At 5.55 a.m. on i8th February, 1967, a red flare was reported on the north side of Girdleness lighthouse.
There was a light north westerly breeze with a moderate sea. It was one hour before high water. The...
Providence
North-East England Boulmer, Northumberland. At 8.50 a.m. on I2th March, 1964, anxiety was felt for the fishing coble Providence which was at sea in deteriorating weather. There was a fresh east-south-easterly breeze with a rough sea, and it...
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TAKEN TO ROSSAVEEL At 3 p.m. on 22nd June, 1964, the local doctor asked the honorary secretary if the life-boat would take a patient to hospital on the mainland. The life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson left her moorings at 4.30 with the patient...