LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mr. S. E. Saunders, of Cowes
Mr. Samuel Edward Saunders, of Cowes, who died on 17th December, at the age of seventy-seven, was very closely associated with the building of the present motor life-boat fleet, first as head of his own firm, Messrs. S....
Category: Obituaries
Girl Pat
Troon, Ayrshire - At 6.45 p.m. on 5th August, 1966, a pilot at Irvine harbour informed the honorary secretary that the cabin cruiser Girl Pat appeared to be in difficulties about 500 yards off the entrance to Irvine harbour. There was a...
Saved after sandbank shift
RNLI lifeguards patrolling Tenby South beach went to the aid of a group of 40 people when the sandbank they were walking on shifted on 25 July.
The 36 children and 4 adults were suddenly out of their depth. Two lifeguards...
Category: Articles
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
Miss TAYLOR, of Hauxley, has been presented with the Coxswain's Certificate of Service which would have been awarded to her late father, GEORGE TAYLOR, Coxswain at Hauxley for twenty years, on his retirement, had he not, unfortunately,...
Category: Awards
Your Letters
90 years ago I wonder whether you would be interested in this photograph, taken on Lifeboat Day in Croydon in 1909, 90 years ago? My brother, aged 5 (left), and I, aged 4, carried the tin lifeboat collection boxes during a street parade on...
Category: Correspondence
Tips from Anstruther
'WE would like to give a donation . . .'.
Welcome words to anyone who has a hand in raising money for the R.N.L.I., and we hear them often at the various functions arranged by ladies' guilds, branches and...
Category: Articles
An Aeroplane (27)
AUGUST 11TH. - EASTBOURNE, SUSSEX. At 5.24 in the morning the coastguard telephoned that an aeroplane had come down in Pevensey Bay and asked that the life-boat crew should stand by. A light westerly wind was blowing, with a moderate sea....
An Aeroplane (16)
MAY 1ST. - MOELFRE, ANGLESEY. An aeroplane had come down in the sea, but the life-boat found nothing. In her own crew of nine were five merchant captains, who were on leave. - Rewards, £5 14s. 6d..
Das Wappen von Bremen
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—On the 2nd June, 1938, the crew of seven of the German yacht Das Wappen von Bremen, were rescued by the life-boat.—Rewards: Vellum and monetary awards amounting to £20 10*. 2d., together with a letter to the Board...
Virgen de la Guia
Valentia, Co. Kerry. At 11.20 on the night of the 26th of January, 1959, a message was received from the trawler agents at Cahirciveen that a Spanish trawler was sinking twenty-five miles south-west of Skelligs Rock. Another vessel was...