LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Saluto
An exception- ally heavy gale visited the south-west part of England on the 13th December, and during the height of the gale the Life-boat Elizabeth and Blanche was called out to go to the help of a sailing- ship in distress in the bay. The...
The Travelling Festival
BESIDES the exhibition on the South Bank of the Thames there were two travelling exhibitions. One by sea and the other by land. The exhibition by sea was mounted in the aircraft carrier H.M.S. Campania, which sailed from Southampton early in...
Category: Articles
Peterhead:
Peterhead: Very strong winds and heavy seas were experienced in the Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, area during January this year. On Sunday January 22 the 48ft 6in Solent class lifeboat James and Mariska Joicey launched at 0248 to stand by an oil... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Oil Rig
Peterhead: Very strong winds and heavy seas were experienced in the Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, area during January this year. On Sunday January 22 the 48ft 6in Solent class lifeboat James and Mariska Joicey launched at 0248 to stand by an oil...
Lowestoft Coxswain's Gallantry.
Coxswain Albert Spurgeon, of Lowestoft, who already holds the silver and bronze medals, has been awarded the bronze medal for the second time.
He took the life-boat out at night to a naval vessel, was flung against the...
Category: Articles
Obituary
THE Institution has lost by death a number of its workers and friends since the last issue of The Life-boat was published. Notices of their work for the Institution will appear in the next number..
Category: Obituaries
Charlie's Angels
The Wells-Next-The-Sea ladies lifeboat guild held their annual Christmas bazaar last November which proved to be a great success, raising over £800 for Institution funds.
Charlie the lifeboatman, shown left with some... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Fleswick
Between 4 and 5 o'clock in the afternoon of 19th March the steamer Fleswick, of Liverpool, made signals of distress, having become disabled through her circulating pipe breaking. The Cadg- with Life-boat and...
A Speed Boat
RUNAWAY SPEEDBOAT THE Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, inshore rescue boat had an unusual service on l l th August when 'the Coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a speedboat was going round in circles' about one and a half miles...
New Year Honours
NEW YEAR HONOURS Knights Bachelor Captain David Stanley Tibbits, DSC RN (Retd.), Deputy Master, Trinity House. Sir David is an exofficio member of the RNLI Committee of Management.
QBE Rodney Murison Addison, Vice- Chairman...
Category: Awards