LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Zephyr
On the 28th February the brig Zephyr parted her anchors and drove on the Scroby Sand. The larger Yarmouth life-boat pro- ceeded under sail to the assistance of her crew, whom she succeeded in taking off, and with one exception landed them in...
Awards to Honorary Workers
Honorary Life Governor The following have been appointed honorary life-governors of the Institution and presented with a copy of the vote in- scribed on vellum and signed by H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent as President of the...
Category: Awards
Prosperity
At noon on the 5th February a telephone mes- sage from the Maplin Light-house re- ported that a schooner was on the Barrow Sands flying signals of distress, and asked for the Life-boat to be sent at once. The crew were at once assembled and...
Captain E. S. Carver
Captain E. S. Carver, who died at Littlehampton on the 12th of December, 1959, at the age of 81, first joined the Institution's staff as Eastern District Inspector in 1919 after service in the first war, in which he had commanded a...
Category: Obituaries
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Galway Bay, Co. Galway. — At six o'clock on the evening of the 30th of October, 1956, the local doctor tele- phoned the honorary secretary to ask him if the life-boat would take an injured person to the mainland. As the tide would have...
Mr. A. J. G. Anson, of Hastings and St. Leonards
Mr. A. J. G. Anson, who died on llth January, at the age of seventy-seven, was from the beginning of 1917 until towards the end of 1925 the Honorary Secretary of the Hastings Station, and he retired then on account of serious ill-health. He...
Category: Obituaries
Jean and Barbara
Filey, Yorkshire. — During the late afternoon of the 30th of January, 1948, anxiety was felt for the safety of the local fishing coble Jean and Barbara, which was overdue, with a crew of three, and at 5.23 the motor life-boat The Cuttle was...
Calais-Dover: Dover-Calais
ON the 4th of August, 1951, the Calais life-boat, Marechal Foch, paid a visit to Dover. She had on board Dr. P.
Drujon, president of the Calais life- boat station, and members of his com- mittee. They were welcomed by...
Category: Branches
Kunishi (1)
FEBRUARY 20TH. - FLEETWOOD, AND BARROW, LANCASHIRE. At 12.20 in the morning news was received at Fleetwood lifeboat station from the harbour staff that a trawler was showing distress signals. A north-westerly gale was blowing, with a very...
Hero, of Maldon
On the 3rd December, during a fresh wind from the N.E., the schooner Hero, of Maldon, anchored in distress on a lee shore. Soon afterward she slipped her cables and took the ground.
The -Duncan life-boat, stationed at...