LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Sir Frederick Bowhill
Air Chief Marshal Sir Fredrick Bowhill, G.B.E., K.C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O. and Bar, died on the 12th of March, 1960, at the age of 79. He had a most distinguished career lasting some fifty years in the Merchant Navy, the Royal Naval Air Service...
Category: Obituaries
Garm
IN SWEDISH VESSEL Wick, Caithness-shire. At 2 a.m. on 9th November, 1964, the coxswain received a radio message from the Swedish motor vessel Garm that a member of her crew had acute appendicitis. There was a gentle south-westerly breeze...
RA Range Benbecula Outer Hebrides
A snooker match worthy of Dennis Taylor and Steve Davis took place at the RA Range, Benbecula, Outer Hebrides. Eight members of the sergeants' mess played snooker non-stop for two days, pocketing £386.45 for the Institution as a... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Rhs Awards:
RHS awards: as well as letters of thanks from the RNLI, three Southend lifeboatmen were presented with awards from the Royal Humane Society after they rescued an 84-year-old man who fell from Southend Pier in November 1984. They saved his... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
North Cotswold Branch
Just browsing: North Cotswold branch ran a souvenir stall at the Moreton in Marsh agricultural show in September 1985. The show is one of the largest one-day shows in the country and the organisers very kindly donated a prime spot for their... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Wireless Appeal
On March 4th., the I2ist. birthday of the. Life-boat Service, Lord Winster, a member of the Committee of Management, made an appeal for it on the air.
This appeal was "The Week's Good Cause" in the home...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat Stations of the United Kingdom
V.—MARGATE.
The Quiver, No. I.
This Life-boat is 34 feet long with 8 feet 3 inches beam, and pulls 10 oars.
A LIFE-BOAT Station was first formed at the town of Margate, under the...
Category: Articles
William Bromham, of Gloucester
On the llth August last, the barque William Bromham, of Glouces- ter, when running for the harbour of Aber- dovey, in tow of a steam-tug, ran aground on the bar at the entrance of the river, the wind being from W.S.W., and the sea rough at...
Cestrian, of Chester
On the 31st of August, the schooner Cestrian, of Chester, in running for Newhaven harbour, grounded on the bar, when the Institution's life-boat stationed there was launched, and proceeded to her aid. An attempt was at first made to save...
Jessie
Soon after 6 A.M. on the 20th March, during a N.E. gale, the schooner Jessie, ofPerth, bound from Littleferry to Ports- mouth, was seen ashore on the North Sand Head, off Goodwin, and the Life-boat, in tow of the steam-tug, proceeded to...