LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Truro Publisher
Many enquiries have been received from readers of THE LIFE-BOAT asking for the address of the publishers of Wreck and Rescue Round the Cornish Coast, by Cyril Noall and Grahame Farr, 2is., which was reviewed in the March...
Category: Articles
Meirig Glyn Davies Mbe.
August Meirig Glyn Davies MBE. ex Llandudno lifeboat coxswain. Meirig first joined the crew as second coxswain in 1964, a position he held until 1970. He was an ILB crew member between 1966 and 1985, emergency mechanic between 1970 and 1982....
Category: Obituaries
Atlas
SEATON CAREW, Co. DURHAM.—On the llth March, at about 8.30 P.M., during a violent gale from the N.E., accompanied by thick snow-showers and a very heavy sea, signals of distress were exhibited from the Long Scar Books off this...
Charlotte Ellen and Lorna
Nov. 19TH. - CLACTON -ON - SEA, ESSEX. About 3.30 in the morning the coastguard reported to the Clacton - On - Sea life-boat station that they had seen red Very lights to the southsouth- west, four miles from their look-out. At four o’clock...
Slasher, of Liverpool, Ship Bolton Abbey & Schooner Vanguard
On the 10th Jan. the steam-tug Slasher, of Liver- pool, while on her way to that port with the ship Bolton Abbey in tow, fell in, about daybreak, with the schooner Van- guard, of Carnarvon, which had been in collision with a foreign barque,...
Three Royal Air Force Aeroplanes
Aldeburgh, Suffolk, and Walton and Frinton, Essex.—8th August, 1939. A message had been received from the Colchester Air Observers' Post, through the coastguard, that three Royal Air Force aeroplanes had crashed into the sea, seven or...
The Press and Life-Boat Work
We would like to express the grateful thanks of the Institution to the following firms of publishers who have generously inserted the leaflet of the Institution in their Christmas issues or have given us a free advertisement in their pages...
Category: Correspondence
1974: (Below) Leaving St.Paul's Cathedral After the Institution's 150th Anniversary Service of Thanksgiving and Dedication With Sir Hugh Wontner Lord Mayor of London
1974: (below) . . . leaving St Paul's Cathedral after the Institution's 150th anniversary service of thanksgiving and dedication with Sir Hugh Wontner, Lord Mayor of London.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Three New Members of Whitby D Class Inflatable Lifeboat Crew
Three new members of Whitby D class inflatable lifeboat crew, Michael Readman, David Smith and Glenn Goodberry, took a smaller inflatable craft than the one to which they are accustomed down the River Esk from Grosmont to Whitby swing bridge... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Four Days of Gales. Six Launches at Cromer and Great Yarmouth and Gorleston
DUEING the gale on the East Coast on the 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th of November there were six launches at Cromer and Great Yarmouth and Gorleston. The crew of the Cromer station were out on service continuously for forty-five hours, while...
Category: Services