LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Derek Saxon Harrold,
Derek Saxon Harrold, President of the Salisbury branch 1981 to 1995. Mr. Saxon-Harrold first started collecting for the RNLI in 1927 and in 1971 was elected to the Salisbury branch committee.
In 1974 he became both acting...
Category: Obituaries
Leona
RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN.—While the Life-boat Mary Isabella was out for practice on the 31st January, a trawler reported that a schooner was in need ofassistance, most of her sails having been blown away. A strong gale was blowing from the S.W.,...
Hazleside
Court macsherry, Co. Cork.—24th September, 1939. A message had been received that a steamer was in distress, as a result of enemy action, about fifteen miles south of Fastnet Lighthouse. She was the steamer Hazleside, of Newcastle-on-Tyne,...
A Motor Cruiser
Three saved from cruiser on lee shore The rescue of three people from a disabled 25ft motor cruiser, which was only minutes from being driven on to a lee shore in large seas on the Norfolk coast, has earned Coxswain Anthony Jordon of Wells...
Meduce
St. Mary's, Scilly Islands. At 12.50 on the afternoon of the 25th of June, 1958, the St. Agnes coastguard informed the coxswain that a French fishing boat was anchored in the Cove with her engine broken down. A later message was passed...
Rear-Admiral T. P. H. Beamish
REAR-ADMIRAL T. P. H. BEAMISH, C.B., who died on the 2nd of May at the age of-76, had been a member of the Committee of Management for twenty-seven years. He was elected to the Committee in 1924, served on the General Purposes and Boat...
Category: Obituaries
Clubbing Together
Weymouth Working Mens Club have been raising cash for Weymouth lifeboat station branch for the past three years.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Coxswain Charles Ward, of Aldeburgh
Coxswain Charles Edward Ward, of Aldeburgh, Suffolk, who died at the beginning of July in his eighty-sixth year, had served as an officer of the Aldeburgh life-boat for thirty-three years. He was second coxswain from 1876 until 1882, and...
Category: Obituaries
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MEN DIVED FOR BOY AT about 7.30 p.m. on 14th March, 1971, Mr.
John Hodder, a member of the Lyme Regis, Dorset, ILB crew, was working on the Cobb when he heard cries for help. As the ILB was off service for the winter months...
H.M.T. Monimia
FEBRUARY 27TH. - PETERHEAD , ABERDEENSHIRE. At 7.30 A.M. a message was received from the Naval Base,through the coastguard, that H.M.T. Monimia was ashore in South Bay, Peterhead. A S. by E. gale was blowing, with a very heavy...