LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Trapped by tide A LIFEGUARD telephoned the deputy launching authority of Newquay, Cornwall, ILB station at 1555 on Wednesday August 8, 1979, to tell him that two girls were trapped by the tide at Lamorna Cove. The ILB, manned by Helmsman...
End of An Era:
End of an era: on the retirement of Coxswain David Cox of Wells I above) til the end of August, the station was without / member of the Cox family fur the first time in three generations. David Cox was a member of the crew for 43 vears and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Southern African Branch.
At a meeting in Capetown on February 22nd., 1942, with the Mayor presiding, a Southern African Branch of the Institution was formed. The Governor- General of the Union is its patron, Field-Marshal Smuts, Prime Minister of the Union, is its...
Category: Articles
Via
Bed port fires having been observed on the outside part of the Middle Scroby Sand, while a moderate gale was blowing from the N. accompanied by a heavy sea, on the 4th July, the crew of the Lifeboat Beanehamp were summoned and at 3.5 A.M....
Awards to Honorary Workers
Honorary Life Governors THE following have been appointed honorary life governors of the Institution and presented with a copy of the vote inscribed on vellum and signed by H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent as President of the Institution : LADY...
Category: Awards
Rock City
ALDBOROUGH.—Signal guns having been fired from the Shipwash Sands on the 8th April during a strong N.N.W. wind, increasing to a gate, very squally weather and a heavy sea, the Life-boat George Hounsfidd was promptly launched at 12.30 P.M....
Awards to Honorary Workers
Honorary Life-Governor.
DR. R. JULYAN GEORGE, M.D., has been elected an honorary life-governor of the Institution in recognition of the valuable help which he has given at Port Isaac, Brixham, and Paignton during his fifty...
Category: Awards
False Alarms
(N The Lifeboat for November, 1925, two cases were mentioned of Life-boats going out owing to lights on land being mis- taken for lights at sea. In one case the Selsey Life-boat cruised about for three hours and could find no vessel, the...
Category: Articles
SPECIAL DELIVERY
A LIMITED EDITION
I was interested to read in the autumn issue about the City of Sheffield’s return to the city that funded her. I was involved in raising an amount towards that boat when I was an honorary organiser in West...
Category: Articles
Six Sisters
A three-masted schooner, the Six Sisters, of Hull, was anchored off the Grand Hotel, Sheringham, her auxiliary motor having broken down while she was bound to Portsmouth in ballast.
At 5.25 P.M. on the 31st May the coast-...