LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Surfboards
Surfer saved by D class in appal l|n g conditionsTramore's D class inflatable saved a surfer on 6 June lastyear in conditions which tested both the lifeboat and her crew to the limit.
In conditions which turned out to...
Spec
On the 24th Dee. this boat was again launched 1 to the assistance of the brigantine Spec, from which she saved 7 men. The Spec was wrecked on the Northam Sands, and it was blowing hard from the west..
A Fishing Boat (1)
Barra Island, Outer Hebrides.—At 6.20 on the evening of the 30th of Novem- ber, 1954, a man at Northbay tele- phoned that a Northbay fishing boat with a crew of two was long overdue.He asked if the life-boat would search for her. At 7.10 the...
Obituary
It is with deep regret that we have to announce the death on 23rd November, 1966, at the age of 72, of Colonel Alexander Denis Burnett Brown, O.B.E., M.C., T.D., who was Secretary of the Institution from 1947 to 1960.
He...
Category: Obituaries
Vittoriso G., of Venice
At 9 A.M.
on the 19th January, the Life-boat Richard and Anne Warner was summoned to the assistance of the Vittorioso G, a brig belong- ing to Venice, which was wrecked in Ban- now Bay, on the Selskar rocks, during a...
Thurso Naming
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother named the new Thurso life-boat—-a 48-foot 6-inch Solent class boat—on llth August, by the Hotel Quay, Scrabster Harbour.
Named The Three Sisters, she was paid for by an anonymous...
Category: Inaugurations
Hildegard
Eastbourne, Sussex. At 7.5 on the evening of the 1st of June, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small cabin cruiser was in need of help half a mile south-west of Beachy Head. At 7.25 the life-boat Beryl Tollemache...
Past and Present
50 years ago From the pages of THE LIFEBOAT, October 1938 issue A New Medal for Gallantry SINCE the Institution was founded the head of the Sovereign has appeared on the obverse of the medals which it awards for gallantry. The first medals,...
Category: Articles
Whitwell
SOUTHEND-ON-SEA., ESSEX.—On the 12th January, while a strong gale was blowing from W. to W. by S., accompanied by a rough sea, notice was received from the pier-head that a vessel was stranded on Shoebury Sands about five miles...
Nellie
On the 14th March the barge Nellie, of Appledore, was returning home from Meadow Ridge, empty, when her mainsail was carried away by the strong southerly gale that was blowing. A very heavy sea was running, and it was...