LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fishing Boats (3)
GOURDON.—Early on the morning of the 16th February fifty fishing - boats proceeded to sea, but in the forenoon the wind increased considerably, the sea became heavy and about twenty of the boats, which had not then returned to port, were in...
A Correction
WE deeply regret that in the last issue of The Lifeboat we incorrectly announced the death of one of our oldest Lifeboat workers, Mrs. Brandreth Gibbs, of Leigh-on-Sea, at the age of nearly ninety. The error was caused by the fact that we...
Category: Obituaries
A Rowing Boat
At 9.20 P.M.
on 15th May the Coastguard telephoned that four persons had put out in a rowing boat at three in the afternoon and that the boat had not returned and could not be seen. The crew of the Motor Life-boat William...
Life-Buoy Used to Simulate Man Overboard
This was one of the last exercises carried out by the Ferryside life-boat. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Storm
Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 2.20 on the afternoon of the 29th of October, 1956, the coastguard telephoned that a message had been received that a small yacht appeared to be in need of help about a mile and a half east of Holland sluice. At...
St. Anne
Lytham-St. Anne's, Lancashire. At 10.55 on the night of the 18th of January, 1958, the Formby coastguard told the honorary secretary that the pilot cutter St. Anne, of Preston, was agroundbetween Lytham and Preston docks.
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Ancora
Boulmer, Northumberland.—At 4.10 on the morning of the 1st of December, 1955, the coastguard reported that a ship had run ashore between Boulmer and Craster. At 4.55 the life-boat Clarissa Langdon was launched, with the second coxswain in...
A Gift of Shamrock
The Duchess of Kent and the three Irishmen (See page 164). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Gift of a Silver Life-Boat
H.R.H. the Princess Alexandra at the annual meeting (See page 323). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
New Year Honours
AMONG those associated with the life- boat service on whom honours were bestowed in the New Year's Honours List were: Knight Bachelor: Mr. M. Arnet Robinson, a member of the Committee of Management and Deputy Chairman of the Port of...
Category: Awards