LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mrs. Brandreth Gibbs, of Leigh-On-Sea
Mrs. Brandreth Gibbs, who died on 19th December last, at the age of eighty-eight, became a Life-boat worker more than sixty years ago. As far back as 1869 she was presented with a framed photograph for her work in connexion with an appeal at...
Category: Obituaries
Mary
JOHNSHAVEN, KlNCARDINESHIRE. The fishing-lugger Mary, of Johnshaven, was seen making for the harbour on the evening of the 5th May. A heavy dangerous sea was running, there was very little wind and the water was low, so that it was...
The Sailing Trawler Ivanhoe
At 6.5 A.M. on the 16th February the coxswain heard that a sailing trawler was ashore on the south beach. He went to the coast- guard look-out, and then to the life- boat pier and saw the trawler on the beach, rolling heavily in a ground...
Our Betty
Dungeness, Kent.—At 10.20 on the morning of the 26th of August, 1950, the Sandgate coastguard reported that a fishing boat had broken down one mile west of Sandgate. She was flying a shirt on an oar as a distress signal.
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£120 from Exmoor Shepherds
THE honorary secretary of the Minehead branch writes: "You may be interested to know that a friend of mine—the licensee of a small hotel in a remote spot on Exmoor—assisted by local shepherds, last September organised some sheep- dog...
Category: Donations
A Small Boat
Broughty Ferry, Angus.—Shortly after ten o'clock on the morning of Sunday, the 1st of October, 1950, the Carnoustie coastguard reported that the Abertay Light vessel had said a small boat was in difficulties off the light- vessel. A...
A Dinghy
Ramsgate, Kent.— At 5.37 in the morning of the 20th of October, 1951, the North Goodwin Lightvessel wire- lessed that she had launched a boat to pick up a boy in a dinghy which had drifted past the lightvessel, but that both boats were now...
Captain R. J. Trebilcock, of Newquay
Captain Richard James Trebilcock, of Newquay, Cornwall, Commodore of the Newquay Rowing Club, who died early in August at the age of sixty- eight, had served for seven years as an officer of the life-boat. He was appointed second coxswain in...
Category: Obituaries
Why Worry
Cromer, Norfolk.—At 12.30 on the afternoon of the 15th of October, 1954, the coastguard rang up to say that a local crab boat was showing a red flag on an oar two and a half miles east-by-north of the coastguard...
A Dinghy
Hastings, Sussex.—At eight o'clock on the evening of the 7th of Mav, 1055, the Fail-light coastguard telephoned that a message had been received from the Eastbourne police that two men were adrift in a dinghy two miles off Langney Point....