LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Second Coxswain Victor Pitman of Weymouth (Centre) With the Crew Who Sailed With Him on Thursday October 14 1976: (1 to R) Emergency Mechanic Eric Pavey Crew
Second Coxswain Victor Pitman of Weymouth (centre), with the crew who sailed with him on Thursday, October 14, 1976: (1. to r.) Emergency Mechanic Eric Pavey, Crew Members Bertie Legge and Bernard Wills, Motor Mechanic Derek Sargent, and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
St.Marylebone Branch Raised S280 With a Most Enjoyable 'Any Questions ?' Evening at Seymour Hall Last November the Distinguished Panellists Were (I to R) Raymond B
St Marylebone branch raised S.280 with a most enjoyable 'Any Questions ?' evening at Seymour Hall last November. The distinguished panellists were (I. to r.) Raymond Baxter, Mrs Mattie Pritchard, Brian Johnston, Dr Richard Gordon and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Flossie
On the 22nd Dec. the Life- boat Centurion, in answer to signals of dis- tress from the Gull Lightship, launched, through a heavy surf, to the assistance of the brig Flossie, of Guernsey, ashore on the Goodwin Sands. The Centurion remained by...
Award of Medals, Gratuities, Etc
THE following is a list of the cases in which the ROYAL NATIONAL INSTITUTION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIP- WRECK have voted Honorary or Pecuniary Rewards, to persons who have been instru- mental in saving lives during the year 1852...
Category: Articles
When Stanley Brett District Engineer (North West) Retired After 38 Years Service Motor Mechanics from Lifeboat Stations In All Parts of the North West of England and W
When Stanley Brett, district engineer (north west), retired after 38 years service, motor mechanics from lifeboat stations in all parts of the north west of England and Wales gathered at the Grange Hotel, Rhyl, to wish him well. Mr Brett,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Agnes Louisa
THOBPEHESS, SUFFOLK.—At 5.30 A.M., on the 26th November, .the Life^boat Ipswich was launched in response to signals in the direction of Sizewell Bank, during a S.S.E. wind and a heavy sea.
On reaching the vessel, which...
A Fine Service at Holyhead
ON the evening of the 7th October, 1938, a small coaster was reported by the coastguard watchman at Rhosneigir to be making distress signals between Rhosneigir and Porthdinllaen. The Porthdinllaen and Holyhead life-boat stations were...
Category: Services
Delila, of Nantes
On the 19th March, the schooner Delila, of Nantes, went ashore on the Blackrock Strand, in Dundalk Bay, the wind blowing a heavy gale from E.S.E.
at the time. The crew of seven men took to their own boat, and were picked up...
Little Mariner
Weymouth, Dorset.—On the afternoon of the 29th May the coastguard telephoned that a yacht off Chesil Beach, about fourteen miles by sea from Weymouth, was flying distress signals. A freshening W.S.W. breeze was blowing, with a choppy sea....
Firefly
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. — At 7 o'clock in the morning of the 17th of July, 1948, the Totland coastguard telephoned that the British steamer Royal Sovereign had reported that she had in tow the motor yacht Firefly, of St....