LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—At 8.35 on the evening- of the 5th of October, 1955, the coastguard reported that a yacht was in distress one and a half miles off Sea Lane, Goring, and that one of her crew of two had waded ashore. At nine...
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St. Ives, Cornwall. At 2.43 p.m. on 2ist August, 1965, the coastguard reported that a man had fallen off., or had been washed off, the rocks at Clodgy Point. At 2.45 the IRB launched in a fresh west-north-westerly breeze and rough sea. The...
A Yacht (1)
Eastbourne, Sussex - At 4.44 p.m. on I2th July, 1966, a yacht with one man on board was reported in difficulties four miles south-east of Beachy Head. A small coaster was standing by the boat. There was a gale from the south-west with a...
New Quay Centenary
The centenary of the New Quay life-boat station was celebrated on 3rd July.
An open-air service was held on the pier with New Quay life-boat St. Albans moored below. The Right Rev. J. R. Richardss Bishop of St. David's,...
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Silver Spray
Lerwick, Shetlands. At 12.14 P-mon i3th February, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a man aboard an open motor boat situated at Ness of Sound was trying to attract attention. The life-boat Claude Cecil Staniforth was...
A Yacht (1)
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 12.5 on the afternoon of the 19th of August, 1956, the coastguard rang up to say that a boat had been reported appar- ently in distress off the Cliff Hotel, Holland-on-Sea. The life-boat Sir Godfrey Baring was...
The North Goodwin Lightvessel
Dover, Kent.—While on passage on the afternoon of the 12th of October, 1957, from Rowledge to Dover, where she was to be stationed temporarily, the life-boat Cunard received a message on her radio telephone that a member of the crew of the...
Centenary of Welsh Life-Boat Station
THE hundredth anniversary of the establishment of a life-boat station at Criccieth in Caernarvonshire was cele- brated at a dinner held at Criccieth on the 14th of October, 1960. The Lord- Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire, Sir Michael Duff,...
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Thomas Orrell Gray, O.B.E., J.P.
Mr. Thomas Orrell Gray, O.B.E., J.P., who had been a member of the Committee of Management since 1935, died on the 7th May, 1961. He had served on the Finance, General Pur- poses, and Establishment Committees of the Institution, became...
Category: Obituaries
The Right Hon. The Lord Winster, P.C., K.C.M.G.
THE RIGHT HON. THE LORD WINSTER, P.C., K.C.M.G., died on the 8th June, 1961, at the age of 76. He joined the Committee of Management of the Insti- tution in 1932, and was elected a Vice- President in 1955.
He was at one...
Category: Obituaries