LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Comet
At 9 P.M. on the 8th January signals of distress were seen from a vessel in the vicinity of the Bell Buoy, and the No. 1 Life-boat Jane Hannah MacDonald was launched. The ketch Comet, of Barn- staple, loaded with a cargo of coal, and bound...
Belinda
The No. 2 Life-boat Leicester was launched at 3 A.M. on the 20th September to the assistance of the fishing dandy Belinda,, of Great Yarmouth, which had grounded about 600 yards from the North Pier Head in a moderate gale from the S.E. and a...
Kate
The schooner Kate, of Peel, bound to Runcorn from Looe, with a crew of four and a cargo of china clay, was sheltering in Moelfre Roads on the 31st January when she caught fire. A whole S.W. gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea and rain....
The Motor Fishing Vessels Lead Us and Provider A
Whitby, Yorkshire.—On the morning of the 3rd of November, 1956, the motor fishing vessels Lead Us and Provider A had put out to the fishing grounds. By the time they were due to return to harbour the weather had deteriorated considerably,...
Civil Service Life-Boat Fund
AT the annual meeting of the Committee of this Fund, held on the 17th of January, and presided over by Mr. "W. H. HAINES, Chief Clerk of the House of Lords, Mr. CHARLES DIBDIN, the Honorary Secretary, reported that the number of...
Category: Meetings
Rescue from Cliff In Full Gale
AT 11.10 p.m. on the night of Saturday I4th September, 1963, Mr. R. Watt, the honorary secretary of the Mallaig life-boat station, learnt from the police that a number of people were trapped on a cliff in Loch Duich. A quarter of an hour...
Category: Services
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
The Life-Boat Transporting-Carriage
The Life-boat transporting-carriage is a very important auxiliary to the boat.
Nearly every Life-boat, except a few of the larger size, is provided with a carriage, on which she is kept in the boat-house ready for immediate...
Category: Articles
French Life-Boats
THE Societe Centrale de Sauvetage des Naufrages, the French life-boat society with headquarters in Paris, no longer has pulling and sailing life-boats in its fleet, as mentioned in the March issue. Its fleet consists of 56 motor life-boats...
Category: Articles
Wheelbarrow Instead of Car.
The chairman of Rickmansworth and Croxley Green branch writes about her flag day: "We had beautiful weather. The sellers were all very keen. The result, £132, is more than last year. My wheelbarrow came in yery useful in delivering...
Category: Articles