LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Resolutions Passed at the Annual General Meeting for 1898
His GRACE THE DUKE or LEEDS IN THE CHAIR.
Moved by His Grace The DUKE OF LEEDS.
Seconded by Colonel SAUNDER- SON, M.P.
1. That the Annual Report be adopted, printed and circulated, and...
Category: Meetings
The RNLI and me: Simon Gregson
He's spent 26 years living on the UK's best-known street- but, this father and lifeboat station volunteer is as much about water as he is soap
You've been on...
Category: Articles
Two Cobles
It was a some- what stormy evening on the 30th April, and in consequence only two cobles put to sea. The E.N.E. wind was light but the sea was heavy, and towards nightfall became heavier; the Coxswain therefore launched the Life-boat to...
Norman Forster
Three men and disabled pilot boat saved in Severe Gale and 20ft seas The rescue of three men aboard the pilot vessel Norman Forster in severe gale force winds and very heavy seas has earned Coxswain John Johnston of the Eyemouth lifeboat the...
A Canoe
Eastbourne, Sussex.—About 11.20 in the morning of the llth of September, '1949, the police reported that a canoe had capsized oil Falling Sands. The occupants, a man and his two small children, had been trying to round Beachy Head. Ten...
The Humber Lightvessel
Humber, Yorkshire.—At 4.5 in the afternoon, on the 14th of January, 1951, the Mablethorpe coastguard tele- phoned that the Gorleston superintend- ent of Trinity House had asked for the life-boat to land a sick man from the Humber...
Miss Hunt
HOLYHEAD.—Signals of distress being seen in the bay, the No. 1 Life-boat Thomas Fielden was launched at 9.10 P.M.
on the 25th January, while a strong gale from N.E. was blowing with severe squalls, a heavy sea, and snow....
Mariner
Kirkcudbright.—Early in the morning of the 31st July the Isle of Whithorn coastguard reported that a small yacht, anchored in Whithorn bay, was in a dangerous position, owing to a change in the direction of the wind. A moderate S.W. gale was...
Morning Star, of Carnarvon
On the 27th February, information was received here that a vessel was in distress in the bay. The wind was blowing hard from the N.E. at the time, and the sea was very rough.
The Sisters' Memorial life-boat was imme-...
James and Agnes
PORTHCAWL.—The coxswain of the Lifeboat Speedwell was informed by the pilot on watch, on the 7th April, that a vessel was running for the shore in a sinking condition. At 6.20 A.M. the Life-boat was launched, and proceeded, in a moderate N.N...