LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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
Leomar
At 8.7 p.m. on 7th July 1966, it was seen that a cabin cruiser about two miles off shore had her ensign at half mast and was flashing an Aldis lamp. There was a gentle north-north-westerly wind and a choppy sea. The life-boat Edian Courtauld...
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Newhaven, Sussex.—At 4.12 on the afternoon of the 24th of June, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that the Seaford police had reported that four people were cut off by the tide between Splash Point, Seaford, and Cuckmere Haven. At 4.24 the...
Safe As Houses (Above)
Safe as houses (above) - Brighton's unique 'floating home' which houses the station's Atlantic 75 lifeboat. - View image in PDF
Thelma Glossop.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Rubber Mattress
Margate, Kent. At 4.15 on the afternoon of the 4th of August, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a rubber mattress with one person on it was drifting out to sea near the Hook Sands beacon. The life- boat North Foreland...
Rowena
Ilfracombe, Devon. — During the afternoon of the 25th January, 1939, anxiety was felt for the safety of the motor fishing boat Rowena, which had been at sea since 6 A.M. and had not returned with the other boats which had put out with her. A...
Obituary
IN addition to Mr. Hargood, whose death is recorded on the opposite page, the Committee of Management have recently lost two valued colleagues by the deaths of Sir William Priestley, a Vice-President of the Institution and Chairman of the...
Category: Obituaries
Truro Publisher
Many enquiries have been received from readers of THE LIFE-BOAT asking for the address of the publishers of Wreck and Rescue Round the Cornish Coast, by Cyril Noall and Grahame Farr, 2is., which was reviewed in the March...
Category: Articles
Mr. Henry Fargus
Mr. Henry Fargus died on 26th April at the age of 77. He was for many years a partner in the firm of Messrs.
Clayton, Sons and Fargus, the Institution's solicitors, and was the member of the firm who dealt with the...
Category: Obituaries
Chenonceaux
Cloughey-Portavogie, Co. Down - At 2.55 a.m. on 8th January, 1968, the coastguard informed the coxswain that the French trawler Chenonceaux had gone aground on the rocks at Burial Isle, Birr Point, Co. Down.
The life-boat...