LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Life-Boat Carol Singers
At Christmas, in 1927, a choir of twelve, got together by the Honorary Secretary of the Branch at East Grinstead, went carol singing, and were so successful that they were able to send £25 to the Institution. Last Christmas the effort...
Category: Donations
Mr. James Hartley Burton, Beaumaris
BY the death of Mr. James Hartley Burton on 16th May, at the age of eighty-one, the Institution has lost an outstanding honorary secretary. He became the honorary secretary of the Penmon, Anglesey, station in 1906, and when that station was...
Category: Obituaries
Loddon
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 3.51 in the afternoon, on the 9th of May, 1950, the coastguard reported a vessel off the harbour blowing for help. At four o'clock the life-boat Michael Stephens put out in a thick fog. The sea was heavy with a...
Thanks—And a Cheque
The following letter, extracts of which are published here, was received in September, 1968, from Raymond Baxter, formerly Director of Motoring Publicity, The British Motor Corporation Ltd., and well-known television com- mentator, enclosing...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Kardesler
Ramsgate, Kent. — At 4.57 in the afternoon of the 9th of October, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that the North Goodwin Lightvessel had warned off a steamer which was in a dangerous place, and at 5.17 he tele- phoned again that she had...
Opreisingen of Arendal
On the 30th August, 1859, the brig Oprdsingen, of Arendal, ran on the Bonndnis rock, in Cas- tletown Bay. The master and carpenter landed to procure assistance; but the wind and sea increasing rapidly, it was impossible again to reach her in...
Yachts
Ferry horror ppy endingEven experienced sailors can sometimes get caught out by unusual circumstances. Saturday 5 May was a bright, clear day, one of the first weekends this year with ideal weather for a pleasant day's...
Taste of the Past
Taste of the past / am writing to tell about some events here in Sweden this summer. Let me start back in 1855 when the first lifeboat station was established in Sweden near Sandhammaren, on the south east comer of Sweden, opposite the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Billow
Signals haviog been fired by the Nore Light-vessel on the morning of the 12th February, the crew of the same Lifeboat were summoned and proceeded to the head of the pier, a distance of about a mile and a half, where the boat is kept moored....
A Sailing Craft
Fleetwood, Lancashire.—At 2.55 on the afternoon of the 22nd of July, 1957, the coxswain was told that a fishing- vessel had wirelessed that a small sailing craft was ashore near the King's Scar buoy and that her crew were waving for help...