LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Estafette
At daybreak on the 6th of November, the Life-boat was launched to the assistance of a ship on the West Gunfleet Sands, which was found to be the brigantine ISsta/ette, of Faversham, bound from the Tyne to Whitstable with coal. She was...
Blonde
On the 27th February, at 1.15 P.M., the Albert Edward Life-boat put off to the assistance of the steamer Blonde, of Whitehaven, bound from Goole for London with a cargo of coal and oil, and carrying a crew of ten men, which had stranded on...
Jonadab
At 10 A.M. on the 12th May, during a heavy N.N.E.
gale, the fishing lugger Jonadab, of St.
Ives, was returning from the fishing ground. When trying to make the Harbour she struck and grounded on the ridge,...
Prosperity
GIRVAN, AYRSHIRE.—While a gale was blowing from the N.W., with a very rough sea on the morning of the 17th November, the smack Prosperity, of Carnarvon, was seen in the offing labouring against the wind, and shortly afterwards she showed a...
Mr. C. Stacey Hall, of Bournemouth
Mr. Charles Stacey Hall, F.C.I.S., for twenty-eight years Assistant Town Clerk to the Bournemouth Corporation, who died on 14th August, at the age of sixty-four, had been for thirty- three years associated with the Institu- tion's work...
Category: Obituaries
Francis M. Dee
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 1.35 on the afternoon of the 1st of April, 1953.
the coastguard rang up to say that the Barrow Deep lightvessel had reported that a man in a cabin cruiser which had broken down, had made fast to...
Kindly Light
North Sunderland, Northumberland.— During the morning of the 15th of January, 1954, the weather worsened while the local fishing boats were at sea, and at ten o'clock the life-boat W.R.A. was launched. The sea was rough, with a whole...
Pedler
Filey, Yorkshire.—At 8.40 on the evening of the 27th of June, 1955, the coastguard reported that the sailing yacht Pedler, which had a crew of two, had capsized off Primrose Valley. A fishing coble and another vacht went to her help, and at...
Conference In South Wales
AT this conference delegates from fourteen branches and Ladies' Life- boat Guilds in Cardigan, Carmarthen, Glamorgan, Hereford, Monmouth, Pembroke and Radnor met at Cardiff on 29th May. Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the...
Category: Committee
A Rowing Boat
On the morning of the 21st October three young men left harbour in a rowing boat.
The weather was squally and the boat soon became unmanageable. The wind strengthened until it was blowing a moderate gale from the...