LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Emanuel
While Coxswain John Swan was on the beach on the 21st October, he observed the fishing- smack Emanuel, of Lowestoft, ground on the N.E. part of the Newcome Sands, while outward bound to fish, owing to the wind falling away and the tide...
Marie
At 7.15 A.M. on the 6th April a schooner was seen making for the harbour entrance the wind then being south with a heavy sea on the bar, and a quarter of an hour later when the vessel had just got inside the river, the wind suddenly...
Paul Therese
Penlee, Cornwall.—Early in the morning of the 21st January, 1939, the Belgian trawler Paul Therese, of Ostend, broke from her moorings in Newlyn Harbour and drifted out to sea. Her crew of six were asleep and unconscious of their danger. A...
A Motor Rescue Dinghy
MAY 5TH . - WELLS, NORFOLK. A motor rescue dinghy had been dropped from an aeroplane to airmen whose aeroplane had come down in the sea and who had got away in their rubber dinghy. The motor dinghy took the other dinghy in tow. This is...
Coxswain Thomas Read, of Ramsgate
BY the death on 18th August, at the age of 68, of Coxswain Thomas Read, of Ramsgate, the Institution has lost one of its most distinguished coxswains.
Coxswain Read was appointed second 'coxswain about 1915, when the...
Category: Obituaries
New Year Honours
NEW YEAR HONOURS Knights Bachelor Captain David Stanley Tibbits, DSC RN (Retd.), Deputy Master, Trinity House. Sir David is an exofficio member of the RNLI Committee of Management.
QBE Rodney Murison Addison, Vice- Chairman...
Category: Awards
Mr John D Russell
Mr. John D. Russell, the senior partner of Binder, Hamlyn & Co. (Chartered Accountants), who died in January, joined the Committee of Management of the Royal National Life-boat Institution in 1954, and was elected a vice president in...
Category: Obituaries
RFD Company Ltd
Extensively used by the R.N.L.I.
for inshore rescue work, the inflatable R.F.D. PB-16 Z-Boat is capable of carrying 10 people and supporting manyinexcessofthat number. Being inherently buoyant, it is virtually unsinkable...
Category: Advertisement
Persevere and Eloise
Margate, Kent. At 1.52 on the after- noon of the 17th of May, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was ashore on Hook Sands. On reaching the life- boathouse the coxswain saw three other boats which also appeared...
Bookshelf
Britain's Historic Coast By Alison Gale Published by Tempus Publishing Ltd ISBN: 0-7524-1456-9 Price: £19.99 . _ _ H Alison Gale takes a trip through time that explains how human activity has both exploited and left its mark upon...
Category: Articles