LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Prime Minister Mrs Margaret Thatcher With Second Coxswain Robert Jones Took the Wheel of Holyhead's New 52Ft Arun Lifeboat Hyman Winstone During a Visit on July 18 Mrs Thatcher Als
The Prime Minister, Mrs Margaret Thatcher, with Second Coxswain Robert Jones, took the wheel of Holyhead's new 52ft Arun lifeboat Hyman Winstone during a visit on July 18. Mrs Thatcher also met crew members and their wives and branch and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Obituaries
It is with regret that we report the following deaths: Noel Smart DL - Council member Harry Mounsey - Life vice president Owen (Bunge)Taylor- Salcombe ex-coxswain LB Charles - Northampton branch president F Barnett - Wisbeach branch...
Category: Obituaries
Queen of the Fleet
On the afternoon of the 13th January a ketch was seen to anchor off Southsea -Castle and close to broken water, and as she was near to the shore and possibly bumping it, the coxswain of the Life-boat Heyland was informed, the crew were...
The S.S. Orchis
30th November.
The s.s. Orchis, carrying a crew of nine, put out from Par with a cargo of china clay for Dundee and Aberdeen. She sprang a leak and began to founder, and her crew took to the ship's...
Barranquilla
St. Mary's, Scilly Islands. At 4.58 p.m. on 28th November, 1965, the honorary secretary learnt from the coastguard that the motor vessel Marchion Enterprise had taken the yacht Barranquilla in tow with a broken propeller shaft coupling...
Nicolaou Virginia (1)
MARCH 27TH - 29TH. - TENBY, AND ANGLE, PEMBROKESHIRE. In the early morning of the 27th the Greek steamer Nicolaou Virginia, bound from Bahia Blanca to Glasgow with a cargo of grain, ran ashore on the rocks at Flimston Head and was badly...
April (1)
APRIL MEETING MONTROSE, ANGUS. At about 10 in the morning of the 24th March, 1942, the lifeboat coxswain and two other men were about to enter harbour in a motor boat, when they saw an aeroplane fall into the sea. The sea was smooth and a...
Category: Services
Mrs. Finch, of Chelmsford
By the death of Mrs. Finch of Chelms- ford, on 15th August, the Institution has lost an honorary worker whose devotion to the life-boat service was shown by her refusal to give up her work for it, even when disabled by serious illness. Mrs....
Category: Obituaries
Mr. Perceval S. Farrant
MR. PERCEVAL FARRANT, who died on 13th March, 1947, was one of the most successful organizing secretaries whom the Institution has ever had. He was in its service for thirty-seven years, and for twenty-eight years of that time he •was...
Category: Obituaries
"Tar and Grease."
Hand over Hand Chanty.
BY CAPTAIN Q. C. A. CRAUFUKD, R.N., honorary secretary of the Dungeness life-boat station.
" The items expended on this work were tar and grease."—Honorary Secretary's...
Category: Songs