LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Douse
BROADSTAIRS. — Flares having been blown close to the North Foreland, the Life-boat Christopher Waud, Bradford, was launched at 6.45 A.M. on the 13th January, and found the brigantine Douse, of and for South Shields, from Poole, in ballast,...
Two New District Organising Secretaries
Miss T. H. Ashe has been appointed district organizing secretary for Wales, and Wing-Commander E. J. Brooks, D.F.C., district organizing secretary for the Midlands.
Miss Ashe succeeds Lieut.-Colonel V. M. Lewis, M.C., who...
Category: Committee
Hauling-Off Warps to Life-Boats
HAULING-OFF WAKPS TO LIFE-BOATS.
To the Editor of the Life-Boat Journal.
SIR, THE Committee of the Southwold Branch of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTI- TUTION have requested me to seek, through the medium...
Category: Correspondence
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
GORLESTON, SUFFOLK AND WELLS, 1 NOKFOLK.—The large sailing Life-boat on j the Gorleston station, which was transferred there from Great Yarmouth in 1883, having become unfit for further service, has recently been replaced by a new boat of...
Category: Articles
Crest
Wick, Caithness-shire.—At 11.32 in the morning of the 13th of December, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a motor fishing boat had been reported on fire off Skirza Head, and at 11.45 the life-boat City of Edinburgh was launched. The sea...
A Rowing Boat
APRIL 2ND. - CLACTON-ON-SEA, ESSEX. At 11.12 A.M. the military authorities reported, through the coastguard, that a soldier was adrift in a small rowing boat, without oars, about four hundred yards off Butlin’s Camp. A moderately strong N.W....
Gentle giant
Quietly spoken, Dave Peel far from dominates a room. But his natural modesty belies a life of daring action and passionate commitment
Dave started saving lives 40 years ago – as a Navy diver on...
Category: Articles
A Boat from Delphic Eagle, of Monrovia
Hmnber, Yorkshire-At 4.13 p.m.
on 12th June, 1968, the coastguard reported that a small boat from the m.v. Delphic Eagle of Monrovia had broken adrift at the Bull anchorage. Further investigations were made and the...
Feature: RNLI Family
They're some of the RNLI's most devoted supporters. They love the lifeboats.
They're hungry for knowledge about lifeboats. Some of them give all the money they own to the RNLI. They often write to Stormy Stan...
Category: Articles
Alcha
Caister, Norfolk.—At 10.40 on the morning of the llth of March, 1955, a postman told the mechanic of the life- boat that a ship was on fire about one and a half miles south-east of the life- boat station, and that a small tugcould be seen...