LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
H.M. Trawler Loch Hope
NOVEMBER 2ND. - HARTLEPOOL , DURHAM. An aeroplane was reported down in Tees Bay, and at 2.5 in the morning the motor life-boat The Princess Royal (Civil Service No. 7) put out to search for her.
She found nothing, but as...
Self-Devotion of An English Seaman
ON the 3rd of November last, during the gale which produced such devastating effects on the coast of Suffolk, and on other parts of the east coast of England, a Swedish brig, the Vestor, was driven ashore near Orfordness, on the Suffolk...
Category: Articles
Sailboards
Local knowledge vital in rescue of two missing boardsailors Helmsman Martin Icke of Portsmouth's Atlantic inshore lifeboat has been awarded the Thanks of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution inscribed on Vellum after the lifeboat...
People and Places
Gemma picks a perfick lottery Actress Gemma Craven, also known as 'Ma Larkin', drew the winning tickets of the 71st RNLI Lifeboat Lottery on 31 October 1995.
Gemma has been starring in 'The Darling Buds of...
Category: Articles
An Aeroplane (34)
SEPTEMBER 16TH. - SALCOMBE , DEVON. An aeroplane had come down in the sea, but her crew had been picked up from their rubber dinghy by a Hope Cove fishing boat. - Rewards, £6 13s.
(See Hope Cove, “ Services by...
Life-Boatman Wades 150 Yards Through Surf
At 10.23 on the morning of the 13th of July, 1952, the Margate coastguard reported that a small yacht was ashore on Margate sands about three miles north of the harbour. She had a heavy list and seas were breaking over her. The life-boat...
Category: Services
Fishing Cobles
As several fishing cobles had been over- taken by a strong S.S.W. gale with a rough, sea on 3rd November, the No. 1 Pulling and Sailing Life-boat Forester put out at 9.30 A.M., went in the direction of the fishing grounds, about four miles...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
BUDEHAVEN.—A new life-boat, on Mr PEAKE'S design, has been stationed at Budehaven on the north coast of Cornwall by the Royal National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck. Her dimensions are, length 27 ft., beam...
Category: Articles
General Sir Reginald Wingate
BY the death of General Sir (Francis) Reginald Wingate, Bt., G.C.B., G.C.V.O., G.B.E., K.C.M.G., D.S.O., on the 28th of January, 1952, at the age of 91, the Committee of Manage- ment lost one of their most distin- guished members. He became...
Category: Obituaries
Marthe Roux
The Life-boat Robert and Susan was called out about 6.30 A.M. on the 25th Feb- ruary, to the assistance of the Barque Marthe Boux, of Havre, which had stranded on some dangerous rocks about three-quarters of a mile to the south of Newbiggin;...