LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mr. J. J. Marks, Llandudno
MR. JAMES JONES MARKS, who died on 24th March, at the age of 70, had been the honorary secretary of the Llandudno life-boat station for seventeen years.
He had been a member of the committee since 1907, so that he had taken...
Category: Obituaries
Vip Launch:
VIP launch: the Duke of Kent, President of the RNLI, was given the task of striking the releasing pin to set Douglas lifeboat on her way down the slipway when he visited the station in June. Douglas, on the Isle of Man, was where the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
14-year-old Will And His Mum Carolyne Are Glad To Be Reunited
14-year-old Will and his mum carolyne are glad to be reunited Photo: RNLI/Eleanor Driscoll. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Hard Graft And Glamour
Hard graft & glamour Her remarkable determination and bravery have won Tanni Grey-Thompson international awards and fans – but the sporting idol has her own heroes and heroines, as she explains to Rory Stamp ‘The weather was horrible,’...
Category: Articles
Mrs. Walter, of Southampton
Mrs. Walter, of Southampton, died in April, only a month after she had resigned the Honorary Secretaryship of the Southampton Branch, on account of ill-health and advancing years. She was in her eighty-seventh year....
Category: Obituaries
Smiling Morn
At 10 A.M. on I the 10th April information was received ! that a vessel was ashore about two miles ! to the west of Newhaven Breakwater.
The new motor Life-boat Sir FitzRoy Clayton, which has recently been sent to I...
Fishing Cobles
On the 29th June at 10.2 A.M. the coxswain reported that the local cobles were in danger off St. Paul's Point, as the sea was making and the wind rising. The weather was fine but a strong north- easterly breeze was blowing, with a...
A Motor Yacht
Dungeness, Kent.—At 10.15 on the morning of the 24th of July, 1952, the life-boat mechanic reported that a yacht was in difficulties two miles west of the life-boat station. The life-boat Charles Cooper Henderson was launched at 10.45 in a...
Old Bob Leach
Hastings, Sussex.—At 4.33 on the afternoon of the 19th of December, 1952, the life-boat honorary secretary saw a fishing boat about five miles to the south-east burn flares. At 4.36 the life-boat M.T.C. was launched in a slight sea with a...
Cloetta
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 2.45 on the afternoon of the 3rd of September, 1953, the coastguard rang up to say that the yacht Cloetta, of Burnham-on- Crouch, was aground four and a quarter miles south-east of Clacton pier. A later message...