LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The RAF Seaplane 1231
On the morning of the 2nd November the coastguard tele- phoned that a seaplane was down on the sea, and apparently in difficulties, one mile east of North Foreland. A moderate N.W. breeze was blowing, but the sea was smooth. The motor...
A Small Boat belonging to Dunelm
Holy Island, Northumberland. — On the morning of the 25th March the coastguard reported that a small boat belonging to the tug Dunelm, with a boy on board, was drifting seawards from the harbour. A N.N.W. breeze was blowing, with a rough sea...
Restless Wave
Arbroath, Angus.—On the morning of the 2nd June, 1938, the local fishing bDat Restless Wave, returning t'o harbour, missed the tide, and lay off the harbour bar to wait for sufficient water to enable her to enter. The wind rose, making...
Sea Shanties By Toc H
AT the first annual meeting of the new Hornsey Branch, a special programme of sea chanties was given by members of the Crouch End Toe H. The singers were dressed as a Life-boat Crew in jerseys and caps, and all the chanties were sung with...
Category: Meetings
The Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Mr.
Harry Finch, who has been a member of the life-boat crew at Walton and Frinton, Essex, since May, 1907, except for the years 1914 to 1918, when he was on war service. He has taken part...
Category: Articles
A Sailing Dinghy (4)
Largs, Ayrshire. At 11.30 a.m. on 23rd May, 1965, the crew of the inshore rescue boat which was on exercise saw a sailing dinghy with two people on board capsize one and a half miles south of the station. The IRB made for the capsized dinghy...
Various Vessels (1)
Southend-on-Sea and Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—Beginning on the evening of the 31st of January, 1953, floods inun- dated areas in the east of England to an extent unknown in this country in living memory. The Southend-on- Sea life-boat was...
None (13)
TOOK SICK CHILD Galway Bay. At 3.15 p.m. on 24th October, 1964, the nurse at Kilronan told the honorary secretary that a sick child was in need of medical treatment at a mainland hospital. The sea was slight with a gentle north-westerly wind...
Maud Smith Award
Second Coxswain Stephen Whittle and Assistant Mechanic John Power of Dunmore East, Co. Waterford, share the Maud Smith award for the bravest act of life-saving by a member of a lifeboat crew in 1964. The award is an annual one made under the...
Category: Awards
Vesper
TOW FOR FISHING VESSEL TO DOCK Lerwick, Shetlands. At 6.35 on the morning of the 14th May, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Vesper had fouled her propeller with a net and was drifting off...