LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Endeavour and Easter Morn
Whitby, Yorkshire. — Early on the morning of the 25th of October, 1954, the weather worsened while the fishing fleet were at sea, and conditions at theharbour became dangerous. At 7.45 the life-boatmen assembled to wait for the boats to...
Annual General Meeting. Princess Marina Presented Medals
THOSE who attended the annual general meeting of the governors of the Institution on yth April, 1964, were told that 364 people had been rescued by the Institution's life-boats and inshore rescue boats during the previous year, without...
Category: Meetings
Summer Rose
Kirkcudbright, Kirkcudbrightshire.— At 5.50 on the afternoon of the 20th of May, 1956, the Portpatrick coast- guard reported that a fishing boat was in distress off Castle Point, Solway Firth, and was drifting towards the rocks. At 6.15 the...
Philip Hodgson Jp
Philip Hodgson, JP, honorary secretary of Filey lifeboat station for 13 years. Tireless and dedicated, he enjoyed the warm regard and respect of coxswain, crew and all who worked for the station..
Category: Obituaries
CLINGING TO SURVIVAL
When his craft hit a wave and flipped him into the chilly November sea, a boater was left holding on for dear life. Could anyone help him – or even see him?
‘I was just about to put on my hairnet and get baking when the...
Category: Articles
Star, of Colchester
At 4.30 A.M. on the 5th December the barge Star, of Colchester, bound from Hull to Poole, was driven ashore at Winthorpe Gap, on the Lincoln- shire coast, during a fresh gale at E., with snow falling heavily. The Life-boat Henry Ingram, was...
Letters
Why do I support the RNLI? Two accounts follow of contrasting, unusual experiences on a lifeboat in answer to this question During the Second World War I served for a time in an RNLI boat The Sir William Hillary, ex Dover station. I was 19...
Category: Correspondence
Meuse, and Asteria
JANUARY 18TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
At 6.52 A.M. a message was received from the coastguard that the Belgian steamer Meuse was aground near the Haisboro’ Sands.
A W.N.W. wind was blowing with a moderate sea...
An Aeroplane (1)
Dover, Kent.—16th February. An aeroplane had been reported to have dived into the sea, but it had come down to within a few feet of the sea and had then flown away.—Partly permanent paid crew: Rewards, £l 18s..
Fishing Boats (3)
North Sunderland, and Holy Island, Northumberland.—The fishing fleets of North Sunderland and Beadnell put out at about 5 A.M. on the 4th December for the fishing grounds, fifteen to twenty miles off shore. The weather was threatening, and...