LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

After six days of gales from the S.E. to S.W. the wind changed on the 15th December to the N.W., blowing a moderate gale, with squalls of rain and a heavy, confused sea. During the afternoon the coxswain saw, about six miles S.E., a tramp...

Celebrating the RNU family, past and present

Interrupted nuptials
When Littlestone-on-sea RNLI volunteers Matt and Heather Crittenden decided to hold their wedding ceremony at the...

Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- folk. At 6.45 on the morning of the 16th of October, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a message had been intercepted from the S.S. Gudrun of Norway stating that her deck cargo of timber...

By the death of Mrs. H. Brandreth Gibbs, of Leigh-On-Sea, who died on 22nd November, 1929, at the age of 85, the Institution has lost one of its oldest workers. She became a Life-boat worker more than sixty years ago. As far back as 1869 she...

OCTOBER 24TH. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL.

At 6.22 in the morning the coastguard reported that distress signals had been seen from the auxiliary ketch Minnie Flossie, of Bideford, which had dragged her anchor and was drifting...

THE GAG secretary has a new telephone number, 66 38209, on which both the secretary and the chairman, Mr. R. N. Crumbie, can be reached. The address remains the same: 126a High Street, Orpington, Kent.

The 1972 national...

Buitt to the highest specification and set in beautiful gardens, English Courtyard properties are designed for comfort in retirement, with spacious living rooms, fully-fitted kitchen, main bedroom with bathroom en suite, a private patio or...

An attentive consideration of the wreck chart appended to the Northumberland Report, and a careful examination of the returns of wrecks by the Coast-Guard officers, forcibly impresses on the mind the painful conviction that the greater part...