LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Dr. Addison, of the Scillies
THE Institution has lost an old and valued friend by the death at the begin- ning of January of Dr. W. B. Addison, M.D., the chairman of the Scilly Islands branch.
For fourteen years, from 1918 to 1932, he was the honorary...
Category: Obituaries
James B. Graham, of Hartlepool
ON Sunday, the 15th January, a south-easterly gale was blowing, with blinding snow-storms. A heavy sea was breaking on Holy Island, and the j weather was bitterly cold. Just before eight o'clock in the evening a flare was seen, and was...
The Rye Memorial
THE memorial to the seventeen Life- boatmen of Rye Harbour—who lost their lives on 15& November, 1928, when the Life-boat, returning from service in a whole gale, capsized as she appeared to be coming into the harbour-mouth with a...
Category: Articles
James Postlethwaite
Ferryside, Carmarthenshire. — During the morning of the 28th August, 1938, a vessel under sail was seen beating up towards Cefn Sidan. A moderate N.
gale was blowing, with a moderate sea.
The vessel was...
Chairman's Name
Major K. G. Groves, J.P., chairman of the Ramsey station branch, was inadvertently described as Major Graves in the March number of THE LIFE-BOAT and apologies are expressed for this error. Major Groves was awarded the...
Category: Awards
£137 from a Picture Catalogue
AN exhibition of Dutch and Flemish pictures was held in his Bond Street gallery, in May and June, by Mr.
Eugene Slatter, and he very kindly gave the money from the sale of the catalogues to the Institution. The exhibition...
Category: Donations
The S.S. Crestville
Port Erin, and Port St. Mary, Isle of Man.—About 5.35 on the afternoon of the 27th of May, 1956, a man informed the coxswain that he had seen from Cradder Head a steamer aground on the Calf of Man. At 5.55 the life-boat Matthew Simpson was...
A Yacht
Lasting the night During the night of 2 July, a lone yachtsman faced force 10 winds and 10-11m waves, 40 miles off the coast of Donegal. The experienced sailor harnessed himself to the yacht as it capsized repeatedly. In the early hours of...
Manx Lass, of Peel
SEPTEMBER 18TH. -PORT ERIN, AND PEEL, ISLE OF MAN. At 11.21 in the morning the Castletown coastguard reported to the Port Erin life-boat station that the Peel life-boat, had launched at eleven o’clock to search for the herring drifter Manx...
Onward
PALLING-BY-THE-SEA, NORFOLK. — On the 1st December, at 4 P.M., the British Workman Life-boat proceeded, during a strong E.S.E. wind and heavy sea, to the aid of a vessel which was signalling for assistance. She proved to be the barque Onward...