LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Second-Coxswain John Roberts, Llandulas
SECOND-COXSWAIN JOHN ROBERTS, of Llandulas, who died in May, 1939, at the age of 77, was second-coxswain of the Llandulas life-boat for 27 years, from 1891 to 1918. On his retirement he was awarded a pension by the Insti- tution. His...
Category: Obituaries
Fishing Boats (5)
Bridlington, Yorkshire.—At 8.16 on the morning of the 7th of December, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that a fishing coble had run aground at the harbour entrance, and that the coast- guard Life-Saving Apparatus Com- pany had been called...
Crown of Germany
A large four- masted barque, named the Crown of Germany, whilst bound from Portland to Limerick with a cargo of wheat, came into Ballyheigue Bay, in mistake for the mouth of the Shannon, on the morning of the 10th July, during a S.W. gale...
Benton, of South Shields
About midnight on the 24th January the Thomas Wilson life-boat put off in reply to signals of distress, and brought safely ashore the crew of 6 men belonging to the brig Benton, of South Shields, which was totally wrecked, during foggy...
Coxswain Joseph Mercer
Coxswain Joseph Mercer of Walmer died on the 5th of January, 1961, at the age of 80. He was coxswain from 1935 to 1945, having previously served for eight years as second coxswain. He was award- ed the bronze medal for gallantry for the...
Category: Obituaries
County Associations
As already mentioned, one of the chief features of this Journal will be to bring into prominent notice the several County Asso- ciations and Local Committees that have long existed around our coasts, and to urge on the well-wishers to the...
Category: Articles
Edith, Lady Bird, O.B.E.
EDITH. LADY BIRD, O.B.E., died on the 1st June, 1961. She joined the Com- mittee of the Central London Branch of the Ladies Life-boat Guild in 1933, was Deputy Chairman in 1948 and Chairman from 1957 to 1959.
She was...
Category: Obituaries
Ripple
RHYL, NORTH WALES.—Signals of distress having been observed on the 12th April, the Life-boat Caroline Richardson was launched at about 3.30 AM., and found the yacht Ripple of and for Liverpool, from Conway, with three men on board, at anchor...
Some Special Gifts
In Gratitude.
ON 23rd September last, the steamer City of Osaka, belonging to the Hall Line, went on the rocks south of Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, and was holed. A moderate gale was blowing, with a rough sea, when the...
Category: Donations
Elise
The No. 2 Life- boat Civil Service No. 1, was launched at 8.30 P.M. on 3rd December during a whole southerly gale to the assistance of the fishing smack Elsie, of Ramsgate, which had stranded on the Long Nose Rock. When the Life-boat got...