LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Small Boat (7)
Poole and Bournemouth and Swanage, Dorset.—25th September. A small boat capsized near Old Harry Rocks at night, and one of the men on board, after swimming for several hours, reached Sandbanks and asked for help.
The...
Coxwain William Sutherland, of Anstruther
The Anstruther station has lost not only one of its honorary secretaries, but, by the death of ex-Coxswain William Sutherland on 31st October, one of the oldest of its life-boatmen.
He joined the crew in 1894 and was...
Category: Obituaries
None (10)
Galway Bay, Co. Gal way.—On the 3rd March, 1938, the honorary secretary, the Rev. Father Killeen, was weatherbound on the island of Inishmaan, and as his presence was essential at Kilronan, he sent a wireless message for the motor life-boat...
Boats (2)
On the 29th of July, 1956, life-boats from Dover and Dungeness, Kent, and Selsey, Sussex, put out to the help of a number of vessels in distress. A full account of these services for which, among other distinctions conferred, the silver...
Notre Dame de Fatima
On the 8th of November, 1956, the St. David's life-boat was launched to help the French trawler Notre Dame de Fatima, which was in distress three miles south-west of Skokholm light.
The life-boat rescued the trawler'...
A Yacht and Two Barges
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—On the 2nd June, 1938, the motor life-boat, as reported on page 551 of The Life-boat for October, rescued seven people from a yacht and two barges, and the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum was awarded to...
Captain D. H. Gibsone, D.S.O., R.I.N., Berwick-On-Tweed
CAPTAIN DONALD H. GIBSONE, D.S.O., R.I.N., who died on 7th April, in his 69th year, had been honorary secretary of the Berwick-on-Tweed station since the end of 1925, and in 1936 was awarded the Institution's inscribed binoculars in...
Category: Obituaries
A Motor Boat (1)
On the 17th of September, 1952, the Stornoway life-boat was launched on a service which lasted twenty-two hours, and in the course of which she rescued the crew of a motor boat who were marooned on some rocks sixty-five miles from Stornoway....
Charles E. Fielding
MR. CHARLES E. FIELDING deputy chairman of the Manchester and District branch, who had been an honorary worker for the Life-boat Service for 55 years and an honorary life governor of the Institution, died in the Isle of Man in October...
Category: Obituaries
None (1)
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 1.23 early on the morningof the 20th of April, 1954, the Gorles- ton coastguard rang up to say that Britannia Pier at Great Yarmouth had caught fire and to ask for the life-boat, as there...