LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Alderman J. G. Oldfield, J.P., of Whitehaven
ALDERMAN J. G. OLDFIELD, of White- haven, Cumberland, who died on 8th May at the age of eighty, was for thirty- five years of his life the Honorary Secre- tary of the Whitehaven Life-boat Station. He found time for this work in the midst of...
Category: Obituaries
The Book of Flags
A SECOND edition has been published of The Book of Flags (Oxford Univer- sity Press, 155.), by Vice-Admiral Gordon Campbell, V.C., D.S.O., and Mr. I. O. Evans, F.R.G.S., which was first published in 1950 and reviewed in The Life-boat for...
Category: Articles
A Canoe
Eastbourne, Sussex.—About 11.20 in the morning of the llth of September, '1949, the police reported that a canoe had capsized oil Falling Sands. The occupants, a man and his two small children, had been trying to round Beachy Head. Ten...
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Category: Advertisement
Madeleine
Gt. Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
At 10.30 on the night of the 29th of December, 1959, the coastguard in- formed the honorary secretary that the Gorton lightvessel had reported a flare seen south-east of the lightvessel....
The Ramsgate Life-Boat: A Night on the Goodwin Sands
BY THE REV. J. GILMORE, M.A.* CHAPTER 1.
THE GOODWIN SANDS.
" GOD have mercy upon the poor fellows at sea!" Household words, these, in English homes, however far inland they may be, and...
Category: Articles
United States Coast Guard: a Glimpse By Trevor Ramsden Station Administrative Officer Padstow
THE SIGHT AND SMELL of bacon and hash browns at 90 degrees in the shade was a bit overpowering as a greeting to Grand Haven Coast Guard Station. A sympathetically smiling cook soon corrected my mistaken entrance and directed me to the...
Category: Articles
Past and Present
25 Years Ago From the pages of THE LIFEBOAT, June, 1963 Issue.
Notes of the Quarter THE first quarter of 1963 was a period in which a number of important advances were made in the development of life-boat design and in the...
Category: Articles
Ship's Lifeboats. Loss of the Europa
ALAS! How many wholesale shipwrecks have the last few months witnessed! How many human beings, who might otherwise, like ourselves, have been now enjoying the many and varied blessings which life affords, have been cut off by these sad, sad...
Category: Articles
Awards to Honorary Workers
The Thanks of the Institution on Vellum.
The THANKS OF THE INSTITUTION, INSCRIBED ON VELLUM, has been awarded to Mr. EDWARD BONING, on his retirement, after 15J years as honorary secretary of the Caister...
Category: Awards