LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mrs Dora Haigh
Mrs Dora Haigh, a long standing lifeboat supporter in Meltham, cuts the cake at her ninetieth birthday party. With her are Brian Stevenson, regional organiser (NE) and members of Meltham ladies' guild committee. Mrs Haigh asked people... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
TRIMARAN UPTURNED
DUNGENESS | 4 APRIL
A man and woman were rescued from the upturned hull of a trimaran by the volunteer crew of RNLI Dungeness. Both casualties were balancing on the slippery surface when the Shannon...
Category: Articles
Services by Shore-Boats (8)
ILFRACOMBE, DEVON. At about 11 A.M on the 12th June, 1939, information was received that a girl had fallen down the cliffs at Haggington Beach, Hele Bay. A strong boat was borrowed for the job, and the Institution’s petrol was used.- Rewards...
Category: Services
Georges Ferges
Lowestoft, Suffolk. During the even- ing of the 6th of February, 1961, the honorary secretary learnt that the traw- ler Georges Ferges of Boulogne would be off Lowestoft at four o'clock the next morning and that medical assistance was...
From a Fancy-Dress Dance at Sea
AT a fancy-dress dance held on board the T.S.S. Voltaire, of Messrs. Lamport and Holt, during a cruise, one of the passengers appeared as a life-boatman.He borrowed from the purser the life-boat collecting box which is always on board the...
Category: Donations
St. Stephen
THREE LIFE-BOATS TO A TRAWLER'S HELP Peterhead, and Fraserburgh, Aberdeen- shire, and Buckie, Banffshire.—At 3.5 in the afternoon of Jaimavy 6th, 1947, the coastguard telephoned to the Peterhead life-boat that the steam trawler St....
The Life-Boat Saturday Fund
THE numerous enthusiastic bands of workers on behalf of the Life-boat Satur- day Fund have, throughout the United Kingdom, had exceptional obstacles and difficulties to deal with this year, as the result of the multitudinous appeals, in...
Category: Articles
A Sea-plane (1)
St. Peter Port, Guernsey, and St.
Helier, Jersey.—12th January, 1938. A sea-plane had been seen flying very low, and it was feared that she had come down in the sea, but nothing could be found. The search was made by the St...
The Dowsing Lightvessel
Humber, Yorkshire - At 9.30 a.m.
on 19th October, 1966, news was received that a member of the crew of the Dowsing lightvessel required to be taken ashore for medical treatment. As there was no urgency it was decided to...
Deevale
BY BREECHES BUOY Lerwick, Shetlands. At 8.14 p.m. on 25th October, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a vessel was burning red flares and appeared to be ashore at South Ness. At 8.28 the lifeboat Claude Cecil Staniforth...