LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Longest Winter Service
A CASE of rum has once again been awarded by the Sugar Manufacturers' Association (of Jamaica) Limited for the longest continuous service by a life-boat during the winter months of 1954-55. The rum has been presented to the crew of the...
Category: Awards
American Airmen's Gratitude
In sending the Institution £12 the commanding officer of a squadron of the American Air Force writes: "The fine work being accomplished by the men in the Life-boat Service, has on several occasions been brought to my personal...
Category: Articles
A Lobster Fishing Boat
LOBSTER BOAT DRIFTING IN A GALE Barra Island, Outer Hebrides.—During the morning of the 20th of November, 1947, the relatives of two local men who had put out in a lobster fishing boat, reported that they were overdue and as a moderate south...
An Aeroplane (26)
JUNE 4TH. - BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT, AND SELSEY, SUSSEX. At 1.15 A.M. a message was received at Bembridge from the Foreland coastguard, that an aeroplane had come down in the sea south-west of the coastguard hut at Hayling Island. A...
Promise
Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire.—-At half past six on the night of the 7th of De- cember, 1949, it was learned that the local fishing boat Promise, was overdue.
The relatives of the crew of three were anxious for their safety....
Oldest Life-Boat Supporter
Miss Ellen Goodeve, who was probably the oldest active supporter of the life-boat service, died at the Queen Mary Homes in Chislehurst, Kent, in August, 1962, at the age of 103. To within a few months of her death Miss Goodeve was regularly...
Category: Obituaries
Eliza
FILEY.—The coble Eliza, having on board a crew of three men who were fishing, on the 8th January, was lost sight of,and as darkness was approaching and the wind and sea were increasing it was considered advisable to take out the Life-boat...
Silver Medal for Norwegians
As reported in the June issue of THE LIFE-BOAT the Norsk Selskab til Skibbrudnes Redning - the Norwegian Life-boat Institution - is celebrating its 75th anniversary this month.
Commander F. R. H. Swann, R.N.V.R., a deputy...
Category: Medals
Sceptre
MAY 8TH. - SEAHAM, DURHAM. The motor life-boat Elizabeth Wills Allen was launched at 10 A.M. to the help of the motor fishing boat Sceptre, of Sunderland, which was aground on the rocks to the south side of the harbour. The sea was smooth....
Rejoice, Ina and Margaret A. Johnson
Blyth, Northumberland. — Shortly after 10 A.M. on the 12th February,1938, information was received from the Seaton Sluice and Blyth coastguards that fishing boats were out, and could not be seen. A northerly gale was blowing, with a very...