LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Joe Adams,
July Joe Adams, honorary life governor since 1993. Mr Adams served the Hastings lifeboat station from 1956 to 1993 in various capacities, including, honorary secretary, joint honorary secretary, deputy launching authority and chairman. He...
Category: Obituaries
Flamingo
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. At 2.15 on the afternoon of the 21st of January, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that an open launch was burning flares about a mile and a half off shore near Milford-on- Sea. A light south-west...
Mina
LIFE-BOAT AND TUG IN HARD TOW THE Falmouth, Cornwall, life-boat on 8th August, 1972, following the sighting of a redflare at about 3.40 a.m., saved a schooner and 10 people.
The wind was south westerly, force 6-7, with a...
Franklin Mint
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A Dinghy (1)
Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. At five o'clock on the afternoon of the llth of March, 1961, the honorary secretary received a message that a dinghy had been sighted about two miles east-north- east of the pier. It was not clear whether...
De Guilala
Ilfracombe, Devon - At 8.30 p.m.
on 8th June, 1967, it was seen that peopleon board a cabin cruiser drifting off Capstone Hill were signalling for assistance.
The life-boat Lloyd's II was launched at 9...
La Baie Norree
At 3.40 p.m. on I5th June, 1967, news was received that a red flare had been fired from a yacht east north east of Dover harbour. The life-boat Southern Africa slipped her moorings at 3.59 in a gale force wind and a rough sea. It was two...
Jane Kilgour
BROADSTAIRS. — Signals having been shown by the barque Jane Kilgour, of Dundee, during a strong gale from the N.E., snow squalls and a very heavy sea, on the 4th February, the Life-boat Christopher Waud, Sradford, was launched at 1.30 P.M.,...
John Russell
John Russell, with his dog Glen, is pictured after an exhausting day's trialling at the Newhaven and District Lifeboat Society's sheep dog trials in August 1987. John and Glen won the RNLI Trophy. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs