LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Margaret Ann
Flamborough, Yorkshire. At nine o'clock on the morning of the 27th of November, 1960, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that the local fishing coble Margaret Ann was at sea. There was a strong north-easterly wind with a rough sea,...
Good Hope and Good Design
WHITELINK BAY, ABERDEENSHIRE.— After a fine morning on the 5th January, a sudden and terrific squall was experienced, accompanied by a heavy shower of snow and sleet. Soon afterwards the coxswain of the Life-boat Three Brothers observed a...
Awards to Coxswains and Crews
The following coxswains and members of life-boat crews have been awarded certificates of service, and in addition those entitled to them by the Institution's regulations have been awarded an annuity or a retirement allowance and a...
Category: Awards
Hamilton and Zealot, W. M. J., and the Otter
RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN.—A violent gale was experienced here on the morning of the 14th January, the wind blowing furiously from S.8.W., and the heavy seas lashing themselves into a mass of foam. At 11.45 the Life-boat Two Sisters was launched,...
Captain W. J. Oliver
Captain W. J. Oliver, M.C., who was district organising secretary for the north-east of England from 1928 until 1952, died on the 18th of March, 1960, at the age of 72.
Captain Oliver and his family had a long association...
Category: Obituaries
Gardar and Miguel de Larrinaga
MAY 21ST. -WICK, CAITHNESS-SHIRE.
The trawler Gardar, of Iceland, had been sunk in collision with the steamer Miguel de Larrinaga, but the latter picked up the majority of the Gardar’s crew, and the lifeboat found only...
The Wreck Register and Chart for the Year Ended the 30th June, 1896
THE " Abstracts of the Shipping Casual- ties which have occurred on or near the coasts of the United Kingdom during the year ended 30th June, 1896," have recently been issued by the Board of Trade, and are of the deepest interest,...
Category: Articles
The Queen Elizabeth In Sand
LAST September five boys made a sand model on the Southwold beach of the Queen Elizabeth, collected seven shillings from those who stopped to look at it and gave them to the Southwold branch of the Institution..
Category: Donations
News from the Branches
Annual Meetings : Station Branches.
BLYTH (NORTHUMBERLAND).-—On 1st March, Alderman George E. Tynemouth, Chairman of the Branch, presiding.
The report for the year ending 30th September, 1926, showed that...
Category: Branches
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 11th January, 1900.
Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.
Also read those of the Building, Finance and...
Category: Committee