LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Offshore windfarms – a blot on the seascape or an answer to global warming? Photo: © Dong VE / AS. - View image in PDF

As was announced in The Life-boat for last November, Miss Margaret Power, of Mount Royal, Old Common, Cobham, Surrey, honorary secretary of the Cobham branch, has formed a stamp club to sell postage stamps for the benefit of the Institution....

Kessingland.

On the night of the 11th December, with a gale blowing and a very heavy sea, the Kessingland Life-boat was called out to the rescue of a sailing smack, the A.J. W., of Rye, which had stranded on the Newcombe...

HELP FOR WOMAN Stronsay, Orkneys. At n a.m. on ist December, 1964, a local doctor telephoned the honorary secretary to say that an expectant mother on the island of Eday needed immediate medical attention. It was 2\ hours past low water with...

THE destruction by fire of H. M.'s troop-ship Birkenhead, in 1852, and of the hired transport Europa,* in 1854, will no doubt be remembered by many of our readers.

Both catastrophes were attended by lamentable loss of...

St. M»ry'«, Islei of Scilly —About 9.0 in the morning, of the 7th of January, 1951, it was learned that a keeper on the Bishop Rock Lighthouse was very ill. There was a relief available. A doctor was called and on getting...

SEPTEMBER 12TH - 14TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 2.8 in the afternoon the Deal coastguard telephoned that a ship was in danger of going aground on the Goodwins. A light south-east wind was blowing, but the sea was smooth. The motor life-boat...

THE Institution very much regrets the death of Lieut.-Co'l. H. W. Madoc, C.B.E., M.V.O., for twenty-three years honorary secretary of the Douglas, Isle of Man, life-boat station; Mr. John Prior, for twenty-five years secretary of the...