LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Eidolon (1)
Clovelly, Devon.—At ten o'clock on the morning of the 1st of September, 1957, the coxswain reported that the yacht Eidolon, anchored in Clovelly Roads, was firing distress signals. He put out in his punt and was asked by the owner of the...
Colette
Margate, Kent - At 10.14 p.m. on 15th April, 1968, it was reported that a cabin cruiser was aground on the rocks three-quarters of a mile from Foreness point. The life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service No. 11) was launched at 10.30 in a...
District Conferences. Greater London
Greater London.
THE Annual Conference of Branches in Greater London was held on 9th October, at the City Hall, Westminster. Dele- gates were present from twenty-one Branches and nine Ladies' Life-boat Guilds, and were...
Category: Meetings
Listings
Naming ceremoniesNorah Cadman at Blackpool The D class lifeboat was kindly provided by the generous bequest of Mrs Norah Cadman, in memory of the late Norah and Harry Cadman.
Colonel Alan Niekirk, member of the RNLI...
Category: Articles
Below Left: Shoreham Crew Launch a D Class
Below left: Shoreham crew launch a D class from its trailer at the start of a long and tiring day in Lewes,. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
United States Life-Saving Service
THERE were 272 stations embraced in the Life-saving Establishment of the United States at the close of the fiscal year which terminated on the 30th June, 1902. Of this number 195 were situated on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, 60 on the...
Category: Articles
None (1)
On the evening of the 24th January the Sandness look- out station reported having received a morse message from Papa Stour, an island about twelve miles away, that a man on the island had been seriously injured and required medical attention...
Oceanic II
A LONG SEARCH Margate, Kent, and Walton-on-the- Naze, Essex.—At 2.50 in the after- noon of the 24th of May, 1947, the coastguard telephoned that the Ameri- can steamer John Lefarge had reported that she had collided with and sunk a fishing...
None (2)
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight—2nd April.
An aeroplane was reported to have fallen into the sea, but no machine was found or reported missing.— Rewards, £7 16s..
Verbena
The Life-boat Bradford, and steam-tug Vulcan, were called out by guns from the Gall Light-vessel, and a flare on the Goodwin Sands at 8 P.M. on the 21st February, during a fresh breeze from the N. On Hearing the sands the Life-boat left the...