LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Little and Broad Haven May 9: Handing Over and Dedication of New Ilb Donated By the City of Coventry Photograph By Courtesy of a Williams
Little and Broad Haven, May 9: Handing over and dedication of new ILB donated by the City of Coventry. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of A. Williams.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Ketches Flower of Essex, Enterprise, Lord Beresford and Eustace
MARGATE.—At 8.30 A.M. on the 29th November, a message was received at Margate from the Coastguard at Epple Bay, stating that a barge was ashore half a mile east of that place; at the same time the Coastguard at Birchington reported a barge,...
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
Awards to Coxswains and Life-boatmen.
To R. D. JONES, on his retirement, after serving 21 years as Second Coxswain of the Criccieth Life-boat, a Certificate of Service and a Pension.
To JOHN HOWBLLS, on...
Category: Awards
The S.S. Brightside (1)
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—On the 22nd February the s.s. Brightside, of Middlesbrough, ran on to Shingle Bank, while bound from St. Kevern for London with a cargo of granite.
She was not in immediate danger, and preparations...
The Life-Boat
Hark! amid the darkness falling, And the thund'ring winds appalling, Comes an urgent signal calling Help from o'er the seas! House, ye heroes, brave and daring, Ye of life and limb unsparing, Oft with death before you staring, Face...
Category: Poetry
Fishing Cobles (2)
Between 4 and 5 o'clock on the morning of the 3rd December eleven of the fishing cobles belonging to Whitby put off for fishing, but some hours later the sea increased rapidly and commenced to break heavily right across the entrance to...
The "Life-Boat Saturday" Movement
IN the last issue of the Life-boat Journal we had the satisfaction to announce to our readers that H.E.H. the DUKE or YORK had graciously accepted the post of President of the Institution's " Life-boat Saturday " Fund, and we...
Category: Articles
Captain Guy D. Fanshawe, R.N.
Captain Guy Fanshawe, a member of the Committee of Management for thirty-seven years, died on the 19th June, 1962, at the age of eighty.
A son of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Arthur Fanshawe, Captain Fanshawe himself had a...
Category: Obituaries
Obituaries
Obituaries With deep regret we record the following deaths: MAY 1989: Miss B. Openshaw, committee member of Penwortham branch for more than 20 years.
JULY 1989: Miss Fletcher, chairman of Farnworth and Kearsley branch from...
Category: Obituaries
A Skiff
MAY 4TH. SELSEY, SUSSEX. A skiff had been seen signalling for help off Hayling Island, but she was towed into Chichester harbour by a motor boat. - Rewards, £11 4s. 6d. (See Hayling Island, “Services by Shore-boats,” page 73.).