LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Gloxinia
Humber, Yorkshire. At 2.50 on the afternoon of the 20th of June, 1960, the coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that a boy on board the motor vessel Gloxinia of North Shields had suspected appendicitis and needed medical attention...
Arethusa
BLACKPOOL, LANCASHIRE.—At 5.30 on the morning of 21st August it was reported that a vessel was drifting shorewards before a stiff gale from the W. The coxswain of the Robert William Life-boat lost no time in assembling his crew and taking...
A Boat
Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. At 6.10 on the evening of the 27th of October, 1960, the local police informed the honorary secretary that cries for help could be heard from the entrance to the river Axe. The life-boat Fifi and Charles...
A Dinghy (8)
Redcar, Yorkshire. At 10.20 on the night of the 20th August, 1961, the coastguard told the mechanic that he had received a report that a dinghy was missing off shore opposite the Redcar- Marske boundary. While the coast- guard was making...
Jemima Puddleduck
Caister, Norfolk.—At 4.38 on the morning of the 7th of August, 1955, the life-boat motor mechanic saw flares on the North Scroby Sand. At 5.10 the life-boat Jose Neville was launched.
There was a ground swell and a light...
New Ways of Raising Money
IN the last few months money has been raised for the Institution in a number of new and striking ways. A particularly welcome gift was one of £155 which came from Miss Erica Marx, of the Hand and Flower Press, Aldington, Kent. This...
Category: Donations
Lady Ann
At 5 A.M. on the 6th December the Coastguard reported that a steamer was making flares for assistance to the north of the Light- house. The crew of the Life-boat were immediately assembled and the boat launched. The steamer proved to be the...
Lytham and Rhyl Life-Boats
The recent sad accidents at Lytham and at Rhyl, by the upsetting of the life-boats stationed at these two places, are so calculated to destroy confidence in all life-boat: among those unacquainted with the exact circumstances of the case,...
Category: Articles
Mr. H. Arthur Baker
BY the death of ME. H. ARTHUR BAKER, on 11th December, 1946, the Committee of Management have lost a colleague whose devoted services they feel that they can ill spare. He became a member in 1925, and was appointed a vice-president in...
Category: Obituaries
A Helicopter (1)
Tynemouth, and Cullercoats, Northum- berland. At 2.10 on the afternoon of the 5th August, 1961, the life-boat Tynesider stationed at Tynemouth was launched on a routine combined exer- cise with a helicopter from No. 228 Squadron, R.A.F....