LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mrs Osman Gabriel
It is with great sorrow that we announce the death early last October of Mrs. Osman Gabriel. Mrs. Gabriel was herself the generous donor of an Atlantic 21 inshore lifeboat, and it was in her honour that the second 37' Rother class...
Category: Obituaries
Phantee
TOW FOR MOTOR BOAT IN THICK FOG St. Mary's, Scilly Isles. At 7.50 on the evening of the 7th June, 1963, the coxswain learnt that the motor boat Phantee, with two people on board, had gone out fishing at five o'clock and had not yet...
Obituaries
IT is with deep regret that we record the following deaths: Mrs I. P. Macintyre, patron of Airdrie branch since its re-constitution in 1980. Mrs Macintyre served as the guild honorary secretary from 1930 to 1957 and as president from 1957 to...
Category: Obituaries
Tasman
Broughty Ferry, Angus. At 8.20 on the evening of the 18th of January. 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a vessel was ashore south- east of Tentsmuir Point to the south of Tay entrance, and that she was in a dangerous...
Isle of Wight Fete
ON 18th and 19th June the Ladies' Life-boat Guild in the Isle of Wight held an "All-Island Life-boat Fete" in the Nelson Hall at East Cowes.
The Hon. Mabel Gough-Calthorpe, the Hon. Secretary of the Guild, was...
Category: Articles
A Rubber Dinghy
Cromer, Norfolk.—During the morn- ing of the 2nd of September, 1948, the engines of the No. 1 life-boat Henry Blogg were being tested as she lay at moorings. At half past eleven the coxswain noticed a small boy being carried out to sea in a...
The S.S. Mango
SELSEY, SUSSEX, and BEAIBRIDOE, ISLE OF WIGHT.—The Selsey Motor Life-boat Canadian Pacific was launched in a S.S.W. gale with a rough sea at 3 A.M. on the 10th January in response to red flares from a position about six miles ...
Kalavala and Camelot
Family rescued Nearly three months later, on the evening of Friday April 27, 1984, the station's own 44ft Waveney class lifeboat, Ralph and Joy Swann, back on station, was called out to the aid of a 30ft motor cruiser, Kalavala. She had...
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Galway Bay. At 8.45 on the evening of the 22nd of October, 1959, the district nurse told the honorary secret- ary that the daughter of the life-boat coxswain had appendicitis and asked for the life-boat to land the child at Rossaveal pier,...
Thames
Length 15.5m (50ft 11 in) Beam 4.62m (15ft2in) Displacement 27.5 and 29 tons Speed 17.5 knots Range 210 n. miles Crew 6 Construction Steel. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs