LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Yacht
Family of five saved in rough seas Criccieth lifeboat was alerted on 16 August following a call to Holyhead Coastguard from a family caught in heavy weather aboard their yacht just south of Criccieth Castle.Coastguards paged Criccieth...
Past and Present
100 years ago It will doubtless be in the memory of many of our readers that the Report read at the last Annual Meeting contained the important information that Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., the Chairman of the Institution, on behalf of the...
Category: Articles
Lord Douglas of Dundee
On the 26th October, 1859, the schooner Lord Douglas of Dundee, parted from her anchors in a heavy gale from- the south, and foundered off the village of Gorton, on the Suffolk coast. The Lowestoft life-boat proceeded under sail to the spot,...
Obituaries
IT is with deep regret that we record the following deaths: February, 1984 Edgar William Garrad, formerly chief draughtsman, who retired in 1964 after 39 years service.
October, 1984 Mr R. H. Jones, honorary secretary of...
Category: Obituaries
The Life-Boat Saturday Fund
THE Central Committee of the Life-boat Saturday Fund and the District and Local Life-boat Saturday Committees through- out the country deserve the hearty congratulations of all friends to the Life-boat cause for the pluck and " staying...
Category: Articles
Life support
Their fundraising roots lie in the 19th century, but today’s branches continue to attract new members and raise millions of pounds. How do they do it?
From the first Lifeboat Saturday street...
Category: Articles
Democrat
Shortly after 1 AM on the 13th October j a deplorable disaster overtook the St. David's Life-boat, Gam, after she had rescued three men from the ketch j Democrat, of Barnstaple. The Democrat was riding with her two anchors down on...
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 13th February, 1936.
SIR GODFREY BARING, St., in the chair.
Decided that humble and loyal messages be presented to H.M. King Edward VIII and H.M. Queen Mary, on the death of...
Category: Committee
Naming Ceremony at St. Ives
THE new St. Ives motor life-boat was named on the 17th of August. She is the eleventh life-boat that the station has had since it was established in 1840. The station has had a chequered history. Its life-boats have been out on service 180...
Category: Inaugurations
Marbi
Two injured seamen THE COXSWAIN SUPERINTENDENT of Humber lifeboat station, Brian Bevan, was informed by Humber Coastguard at 2103 on Friday, October 1, 1976, that the Belgian trawler Marbi was heading for the Humber with two injured crewmen...