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Susmar

Date: January 1970

Volume: 41

Issue: 430

The Lizard—Cadgwith, Cornwall - At 1.42 a.m. on 29th July, 1969, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that red flares had been sighted five miles west of the Lizard lighthouse.lighthouse.

At 2.10 the life-boat The...

Edith, Lady Bird, O.B.E.

Date: September 1961

Volume: 36

Issue: 397

EDITH. LADY BIRD, O.B.E., died on the 1st June, 1961. She joined the Com- mittee of the Central London Branch of the Ladies Life-boat Guild in 1933, was Deputy Chairman in 1948 and Chairman from 1957 to 1959.

She was...

Category: Obituaries

Witte-Zee

Date: June 1964

Volume: 38

Issue: 408

SINKING DUTCH TUG After the earlier service to the motor vessel Brother George on 23rd February, a decision was made to stand by the vessel while attempts were made to refloat her on the flood tide. There was a strong southerly breeze with a...

Rolfe

Date: June 1965

Volume: 38

Issue: 412

Moelfre, Anglesey. At 2.30 p.m. on 3rd March, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a young man on board the German motor vessel Rolfe one mile and three quarters north of Moelfre was believed to be suffering from...

Ranger of Essex

Date: June 1967

Volume: 40

Issue: 420

Weymouth, Dorset - On 24th January, 1967, the life-boat Frank Spiller Locke saved the catamaran Ranger of Essex and rescued her crew of two. A full account of this service, for which a special award has been made to the coxswain and crew,...

Mrs Elsie Farr

Date: Winter 1989

Volume: 51

Issue: 507

Mrs Elsie Farr. honorary life president of the Lifeboat Enthusiasts' Society and widow of Grahame Farr. Mr Farr was honorary archivist of the LBES and after his death she took over the task of providing information from the archives and...

Category: Obituaries

Skegness - Mersey Class Lincolnshire Poacher

Date: Autumn 1990

Volume: 52

Issue: 514

Rain could not dampen the enthusiasm of the guests and spectators who had come to see the naming ceremony of Skegness' new Mersey class lifeboat Lincolnshire Poacher, and the opening of the station's new boathouse. (Photo Jeff... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Hartlepool By Joan Davies

Date: Spring 1977

Volume: 45

Issue: 460

Home port of the 44' Waveney Offshore Lifeboat The Scout and Atlantic 21 Inshore Lifeboat Guide Friendship III by Joan Davies BY THE EXPRESS WISH of Her Majesty The Queen, the theme for this, her Silver Jubilee year, is youth and the...

Category: Articles

Frozen Asset:

Date: Winter 1987

Volume: 50

Issue: 499

Frozen asset: the relief Waveney Khami on duty at Sheerness in January, pictured after a heavy overnight snowfall during the bad weather that month. The photograph was sent to us bv Coxswain Robin Castle, who drew our attention to the frozen... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Diamond Dove

Date: Summer 1988

Volume: 51

Issue: 505

Six saved from power boat LymeRegis South West Division The Lyme Regis Atlantic 21 Independent Forester Benevolence rescued six people on 22 May 1988 in a short but difficult service when a small power boat lost engine power and was being...